REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE STATES RELATIONS 



SERVICE. 



United States Department of Agriculture, 



States Relations Service, 

 Washington^ D. C.^ Septemher 23, 1920. 

 Sir : I have the honor to present herewith the report of the States 

 Relations Service for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1920. 

 Respectfully, 



A. C. True, Director. 

 Hon. E. T. Meredith, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



INTRODUCTION. 



AMOUNT AND SOURCE OF FUNDS ADMINISTERED. 



The year ended June 30, 1920, was a period of transition from a 

 war to a peace basis in the work of the States Relations Service. The 

 war emergency fund of $6,100,000 for extension work terminated 

 with the fiscal year ended June 30, 1919, but the settlement of busi- 

 ness growing out of the use of that fund was a large item in the fiscal 

 year 1920. In lieu of the emergency fund Congress appropriated 

 $l,r)00,000 to the Department of Agriculture to be expended under 

 the terms of the extension act of May 8, 1914, and continued appro- 

 priations for farmers' cooperative demonstration work amounting 

 to $1,396,320. The other funds appropriated for the work of the 

 service amounted to $569,000. In addition, Federal funds amount- 

 ing to $1,440,000 were appropriated for the agricultural experiment 

 stations and $3,080,000 for cooperative extension work. State funds 

 amounting to $4,100,000 were used as an offset to the Federal funds 

 for extension work as required by law. This service, theiefure, had 

 administrative and advisory relations in the expenditure of $12,- 

 085,320, of which $7,985,320 were Federal funds. In addition the 

 agricultural colleges and experiment stations used in experimental 

 and extension enterprises $7,200,000, derived from sources within the 

 States. 



CHANGES IN PERSONNEL. 



In the fiscal jear 1919-20 the force carried on the rolls of the 

 States Relations Service aggregated about 5,700, as compared with 

 7,000 tlie previous year. The number of counties having agricul- 

 tural extension agents declined from over 2,400 to about 2.000 and 

 the number having home-demonstration agents from about 1,700 to 



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