572 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



home economics through Federal, State, and local institutions, and 

 undoubtedly the influence of the extension work will be increasingly 

 felt in the development of these institutions. 



EXHIBITS AT EXPOSITIONS. 



The Office of Experiment Stations did a large amount of work 

 in cooperation with the agricultural colleges and experiment stations 

 in the preparation and management of collective exhibits of its own 

 work and that of the cooperating institutions at the expositions at 

 Paris in 1889 and 1900, Chicago in 1893, Atlanta in 1895, Omaha in 

 1898, Bufl'alo in 1901, Charleston in 1901-2, St. Louis in 1904, Port- 

 land in 1905, Jamestown in 1907, and Seattle in 1909. 



THE CHANGE IN DEPARTMENT ORGANIZATION AFFECTING THE 



STATES RELATIONS SERVICE. 



The Office of Experiment Stations and its successor, the States 

 Relations Service, have necessarily dealt so broadly with matters 

 relating to agricultural research and education that they have con- 

 stantly operated in fields of subject matter covered also in the work 

 of the department bureaus. The relations of the bureaus with the 

 agricultural colleges and experiment stations have also become in- 

 creasingly intimate and cooperative. There have therefore developed 

 good reasons for such a reorganization of the department's agencies 

 dealing with the colleges and stations as would bring them within 

 the office of the Secretary and put them in charge of officers repre- 

 senting the department as a whole. This has been provided for in 

 the creation of the offices of director of scientific work and director 

 of extension work and by authority from Congress to abolish the 

 States Relations Service on June 30, 1923, the Office of Experiment 

 Stations to be put in charge of the director of scientific work and the 

 office of cooperative extension work in charge of the director of ex- 

 tension work. 



The office of home economics will be transformed into the Bureau 

 of Home Economics and thus will have the same status as the other 

 bureaus of the department. 



Through these changes a more logical arrangement for the trans- 

 action of the department's business hitherto conducted by the States 

 Relations Service will be made, which it is hoped will have very 

 satisfactory results and strengthen the cooperative relations of the 

 department with the State institutions for agricultural research and 

 education. 



The Office of Experiment Stations and the States Relations 

 Service have been operated under practically the same general poli- 

 cies for 35 years and to an unusual extent for many years in the 

 more important positions by the same personnel. During their 

 existence these agencies have been closely identified with the general 

 movement for agricultural research and education and have done 

 much toward the development of this movement in a broad way 

 and on a permanent basis, with results which already have brought 

 about many improvements in agricultural practice and in the home 

 and community life of our rural people, as well as contributing in 

 large measure to the general welfare and prosperity of our urban 

 people. 



