574 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



EXTENSION WORK— SOUTH. 



Cooperative work in farm management and farm economics in the 

 Southern States has been continued as heretofore. The work has 

 been conducted quite largely through the use of the Farm Account 

 Book, supplemented by surveys, lectures, correspondence, newspaper 

 articles, bulletins, and circular letters. The readjustment of the 

 project, Avith a view to aiding the several States in establishing farm- 

 management departments, increasing the amount of research work 

 done, and making a more equitable division of the expense of con- 

 ducting cooperative Avork, is now under consideration by the coopera- 

 ting parties. 



The College of Agriculture of Arkansas has established a depart- 

 ment of farm management and farm economics, with A. D. McNair, 

 of the Federal Oflice of Farm Management and Farm Economics, in 

 charge on a cooperative basis. Similar arrangements were made with 

 Mississippi, with R. W. Clothier representing the Office of Farm 

 Management and Farm Economics in that State. Since Mr. Clothier 

 resigned in April, 1920, to become president of the New Mexico Agri- 

 cultural College this place has been vacant. 



Cooperative adjustments have been made Avith Alabama and 

 Georgia, and negotiations are being made Avith North Carolina for 

 cooperation on a SO-HO basis. A cooperative-research project has 

 been submitted to Virginia, but no action has been taken on it as A^et. 



EXTENSION WORK— NORTH AND WEST. 



Farm management demonstration AVork in the Northern and 

 Western States is under the administration of the States Relations 

 Service, Avith the Agricultural Economist in charge located in the 

 Office of Farm Management and Farm Economics to facilitate closer 

 cooperation. A special eifort is being put forth to prepare the in- 

 A'estigational data of the Office of Farm Management and Farm Eco- 

 nomics in such form that the farm-management demonstrators, lo- 

 cated in the several States, Avill be able to use the material advantage- 

 ously in their work with the farmers. 



While the work was devoted primarily to increased food produc- 

 tion during the Avar, the program for 1919 Avas planned to meet the 

 demand for information on more efficient farm operation. In order 

 to accomplish this object more emphasis has been placed on training 

 the county agents and other agencies in bringing to farmers in terms 

 of their oAvn farm business the principles of efficient farm organiza- 

 tion and management. The method employed in bringing the in- 

 formation to farmers, in the main, has been to get them together in 

 groups for instruction in recording, summarizing, and analyzing 

 farm business records through the use of the farm account books 

 prepared by the demonstrators. As many as 50,000 of these books 

 haA^e been put in the hands of farmers in a single State through the 

 aid of county agents and bankers. Bankers haA^e cooperated heartily 

 in the work, distributing the larger portion of the books, the expense 

 of Avhich they have met as a service to their patrons. 



The change from individual to group work has put the project on 

 a basis that offers thorough instruction but Avill reach the number of 



