438 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



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The two separate offices of extension work had been gradually ap- 

 proaching each other in their methods of organizing and handling 

 extension work in the various sections of the country, and their final 

 amalgamation into one ofHce was in the interest of simplicity of 

 administration and uniformity of work throughout tlie entire 

 country. Since the union of the two offices considerable internal 

 reorganization has been effected in ordei- that the work might con- 

 form more fully to changes in extension organization and work 

 taking place in the various States. 



As the extension work has developed there has been a tendency to 

 sepai-ation of the interests of the county agricultural agents, home- 

 demonstration agents, boys' and girls' club agents, and extension 

 specialists, and to make the administrative relations of the different 

 agents too distinct and specialized. This has increased the difficulties 

 of administration of the work as a whole and weakened its unity of 

 operation. In the new organization of the Washington office an 

 effort has therefore been made to empliasize the unity of the exten- 

 sion system as a means for helping the farming people to improve 

 agriculture and country life through the work of men and women 

 agents interested in the rural proldem as a whole and so united in 

 their administrative relations that each will promote the best in- 

 terests of the general enterprise whatever may be the particular tasks 

 assigned them individually. 



More definite provision has also been made for correlating the ex- 

 tension work of the different bureaus of the department Avith similar 

 work carried on in the States through the agricultural colleges and 

 for consideration of national and regional problems of agriculture 

 and country life in connection with the State and county programs 

 of extension work. 



As now organized, the Office of Extension AVork consists of two 

 divisions, (1) the Division of Programs, dealing essentially with the 

 administrative or business side of extension work, and (2) the Di- 

 vision of Methods, dealing more especially with the professional or 

 technical side of extension work. L. H. Goddard, formerly in charge 

 of the farm-management demonstration work of the Office of Exten- 

 sion Work in the North and West has been placed in charge of the 

 Division of Programs, and A. B. Graham, formerly in charge of the 

 work of specialists of that office, has been placed in charge of the 

 Division of Methods. These two divisions replace the county agent, 

 home-demonstration agent, boys' and girls' club, farm management, 

 and specialist sections in' the Office of Extension Work in the North 

 and West, and the regional divisions and clubs and home demonstra- 

 tion sections in the Office of Extension Work in the South. 



The funds employed in support of extension work carried on by 

 the Office of Extension Work in cooperation with the States during 

 the year for all purposes totaled as follows : 



Washington administration $235,000 



State administration 1, 009, 847 



County-agent work 9, 670, 786 



Home-demonstration work 2, 980. 741 



Boys' and girls' club work 1.244,092 



Extension specialists 3. 182, 747 



Extension schools, fairs, publications, and miscellane- 

 ous 409, 147 



Total for all purposes 18. 732, 360 



