448 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



cultura] experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, Guam, 

 and the Virgin Islands. 



The service includes the follo'vvin<jj offices: (1) Office of the Direc- 

 tor, which deals Avitli the f]^eneral business and administration of the 

 service and the work' relatin<; to a<^ricultural instruction and farm- 

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

 the work and expenditures of tlie State and insular experiment sta- 

 tions; (3) Office of Extension Work in the South, which has charge 

 of coo])erative extension work in 15 Southern States; (4) Office of 

 Extension Work in the North and West, which has charge of cooper- 

 ative extension work in 33 Northern and Western States; and (5) 

 Office of Home Economics, which deals with questions of food, cloth- 

 ing, and household equipment and management. 



OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR. 



The general administrative business of the States Relations Service 

 has been considerably modified during the past year by concen- 

 tration in the central offices of a considerable amount of routine 

 business hitherto conducted by other branches of the service and 

 by the simplification of accounting work through confining the 

 direct contributions to the extension work in the States chiefl}^ to 

 payments on the salaries of the extension agents. The great ex- 

 tent of the extension work and the shifting character of the co- 

 operative extension forces, owing largely to the withdrawal of 

 agents to engage in more profitable enterprises, together with the 

 great variety of conditions connected with the State and county 

 contributions to the extension work, necessitate a very large amount 

 of routine administrative business. To this has been added much 

 new business growing out of the enlargement of the work connected 

 with the insular experiment stations, investigations in home eco- 

 nomics, and the preparation and dissemination of publications and 

 illustrative material for the extension forces, farmers' institutes, and 

 schools, and for the use of the department's Division of Publications 

 in its relations with the agricultural and general press throughout 

 the country. 



EDITORIAL DIVISION. 

 W. H. Beal, Chief. 



The work of this division included, as heretofore, the business con- 

 nected with (1) the editing of all publications of the service except 

 Experiment Station Record, and (2) the collection, preparation, and 

 distribution of illustrative material for service use. During the lat- 

 ter half of the year the duplicating work of the service, which had 

 previously been divided into three separate units, was consolidated 

 and reorganized as a section of the Editorial Division. 



Owing to shortage of funds for printing, the number and volume 

 of publications printed for the service during the year were very 

 much smaller than for the previous year. The publications issued 

 included 39 documents, aggregating 2,959 pages, as compared with 

 64 documents, aggregating 3,997 pages, of the previous year. There 

 were issued 20 numbers of Experiment Station Record, 3 administra- 

 tive reports, 3 farmers' bulletins, 9 department circulars, 2 publica- 



