414 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



to those institutions for agricultural experiment stations and co- 

 operative extension work in agriculture and home economics, and in 

 carrying out the provisions of the acts of Congress making appro- 

 priations to the Department of Agriculture for farmers' cooperative 

 demonstration work; investigations relating to agricultural schools, 

 farmers' institutes, and home economics; and the maintenance of 

 agricultural exi^eriment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, 

 Guam, and the Virgin Islands. 



The service has included the following offices: (1) Office of the 

 Director, which deals with the general business and administration 

 of the service and the work relating to agricultural instruction and 

 farmers' institutes; (2) Office of Experiment Stations, which deals 

 with the work and expenditures of the State and insular experiment 

 stations; (3) Office of Extension Work, which deals with cooperative 

 extension work in agriculture and home economics in the 48 States; 

 and (4) Office of Home Economics, which carries on investigations re- 

 lating to food, clothing, and household equipment and management. 



OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR. 



The general administrative business of the States Relations Serv- 

 ice connected with appointments, accounts, supplies, and the prepa- 

 ration and dissemination of publications and illustrative material 

 continued to be large in amount and to cover a great variety of 

 subjects involved in the work of the agricultural experiment sta- 

 tions and extension divisions of the agricultural colleges. As a 

 clearing house regarding the organization, activities, and publica- 

 tions of agricultural institutions throughout the world, the service 

 is called upon to an increased extent for information through corre- 

 spondence, conferences, and publications. 



EDITORIAL DIVISION. 



W. H. Real. Chief. 



The business of the service relating to publications, job printing, 

 illustrative material, publicity, and duplicating was handled through 

 the Editorial Division as heretofore. 



Publications. — The publications of the service were both technical 

 and popular. 



The technical publications summarized the literature and progress 

 of agricultural investigation in this country and abroad ; reported in 

 detail the lesults of experiments and investigations by the experi- 

 ment stations maintained by the department in Alaska, Hawaii, 

 Porto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands, and explained their local 

 application in developing improved farm practices; reviewed the 

 work of the State experiment stations and discussed questions arising 

 in connection with the administrative and advisory relations of the 

 department thereto: recorded progress in the organization and con- 

 duct of the various lines of cooperative extension Avork in agriculture 

 and home economics: and reported the results of investigations in 

 home economics. 



The popular publications dealt with such subjects as the selection 

 of food with reference to body needs, the food of farm families, the 



