REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE STATES RELATIONS 



SERVICE. 



United States Department of Agriculture, 



States Relations Service, 

 Washington, D. C, September 30, 1918. 



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

 Relations Service for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. 

 Respectfully, 



A. C. True, Director. 

 Hon. D. F. Houston, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The States Relations Service represents the Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture in his relations with the State agricultural colleges and experi- 

 ment stations under the acts of Congress granting funds to these 

 institutions for agricultural experiment stations and cooperative 

 extension work in agriculture and home economics, and in carrying 

 out the provisions of acts of Congress making appropriations to the 

 Department of AgTiculture for farmers' cooperative demonstration 

 work, investigations relating to agricultural schools, farmers' insti- 

 tutes, and home economics, and the maintenance of agricultural 

 experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, and Guam. 



The organization of the service includes the following offices: (1) 

 The Office of the Director, which deals with the general business and 

 administration of the service and the work relating to agricultural 

 instruction and farmers' institutes; (2) the Office of Experiment 

 Stations; (3) the Office of Extension Work in the South, including 

 the farmers' cooperative demonstration work and the cooperative 

 extension work in 16 Southern States; (4) the Office of Extension 

 Work in the North and West, including the farmers' cooperative 

 demonstration work and the cooperative extension work in 33 North- 

 ern and Western States; and (5) the Office of Home Economics, 

 including investigations relative to foods, clothing, and household 

 equipment and management. 



During the past year the service also had charge of the work 

 authorized by Congress in the item in the food-production act of 

 August 10, 1917, providing $4,348,400 " for increasing food produc- 

 tion and eliminating waste and promoting conservation of food by 

 educational and demonstrational methods through county, district, 

 and urban agents and others." This war-emergency fund was used 

 through the two extension offices for the expansion of those features 



