338 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 



the production and marketing of farm products and are being 

 brought into more helpful and sympathetic relationships with their 

 neighbors on the farms. 



OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR. 



' The general administrative business of the States Relations Service 

 very greatly increased during the past year. Many new problems 

 connected with expanding and more complicated relationships with 

 the department bureaus, other Federal agencies, the agricultural col- 

 leges, and other State institutions and organizations brought the 

 necessity for large numbers of conferences and much correspondence, 

 together with the consideration of very many project agreements. 



The routine business connected with appointments, accounting, 

 records, property, distribution of publications, and other material 

 to the field forces, etc., was very large. This involved the employ- 

 ment of many persons unfamiliar with the requirements of Govern- 

 ment business and threw a very heavy burden on the chief adminis- 

 trative officers and their trained assistants. A large amount of over- 

 time work was required and cheerfully performed in this and other 

 branches of the service. The loyalty and self-sacrificing spirit of the 

 service's force in all its grades deserves great commendation. 



EDITORIAL DIVISION. 



W. H. Beal, Chief. 



The work of this division included (1) the handling in an editorial 

 Capacity of all of the publications of the service except Experiment 

 Station Record; (2) the business connected with the collection, prepa- 

 ration, and distribution of illustrative material for the use of em- 

 ployees and collaborators of the service. 



The general character of the editorial work was not modified mate- 

 rially during the year. There was a slight decrease in the total num- 

 ber and volume of publications issued, but a relative increase in those 

 of a more popular character needed especially in the extension work 

 of the service bearing on food production and conservation. 



The service issued during the year 95 documents aggregating 4,218 

 pages, as follows : Seventeen numbers of Experiment Station Record, 

 2 reports, 10 technical bulletins, 1 article in the Journal of Agricul- 

 tural Research, 10 publications of the insular stations, 8 Farmers' 

 Bulletins, 5 illustrated lectures (with lantern slides), 40 documents 

 relating to cooperative extension work in agriculture and home eco- 

 nomics, and 2 administrative circulars. The service also contributed 

 four numbers to the series of circulars of the Secretary's Office. In 

 addition to these formal documents the service issued, either in 

 printed or in mimeographed form, a number of informal documents, 

 including leaflets of various kinds, blank forms, record books, and 

 the like, required in connection with special features of the work of 

 the service, and cooperated with the Office of Information in the 

 preparation of a considerable amount of press and other inforina- 

 tional material of wider general interest especially connected with 

 the emergency work of the department relating to food production 

 and conservation. 



