OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 693 



The total number of lecturers listed on the State force was 1,011. 

 The number from the faculties of the agricultural colleges and ex- 

 periment station staffs was 319, and the days contributed amounted 

 to 3,876. Thirty-six lecturers were in attendance 188 daj^s at teach- 

 ers' institutes, meeting 14,295 teachers of the public schools. Thirty- 

 jfive lecturers gave 321 days to high-school work, meeting 31,030 per- 

 sons. Nine lecturers were at normal schools 72 days, meeting 2,195 

 normal-school students. Twenty-nine lecturers gave 274 days to the 

 public schools, meeting 39,684 scholars. 



Fifty-three experts were employed as itinerant instructors and 

 advisers by 14 States. Eight gave all of their time to this work 

 and the others contributed 2,703 days. Twenty-five States had 25 

 experts engaged in other forms of extension work. Twelve of these 

 were employed all of their time and the other 13 aggregated 686 days. 

 The lecturers before teachers' institutes, high schools, common schools, 

 and the itinerant experts and advisers in other forms of extension 

 gave 6,664 days to teaching in these several directions. 



Thirty-nine State legislatures appropriated $347,850.57 to institute 

 work; to this there was added by 18 States $51,568.75 from other 

 sources, making a total of $399,319.32. There was expended by 39 

 States for institute purposes $342,476.62. The State appropriation 

 for 1912 in 33 Stales is reported at $383,600. 



These figures show that the interest of farming people in institute 

 instruction is steadily growing and extending to embrace new and 

 im2:)roved lines of effort. The movable school, the women's institute, 

 the high school, the rural school, the instruction train, and the itin- 

 erant teacher have been operating and testing their methods as never 

 before, and large numbers of farming people are being reached 

 through these media. 



The awakening of country people to the need of agricultural 

 instruction and to the possibilities of extension teaching has created 

 a demand for this instruction far beyond the power of the States to 

 supply. The inadequacy of our present equi^Dment for meeting the 

 educational needs of rural people has become so apparent that several 

 bills have been presented before Congress looking to additional appro- 

 priations for carrying on this work. The States also are adding to 

 their appropriations for agricultural extension in very marked degree. 

 California has increased from $10,000 for institute work to $15,000 

 per year; Illinois, $23,650 to $29,000; Kansas, $27,500 to $35,000; 

 Minnesota, $18,000 to $23,000; Nebraska, $10,000 to $17,500; New 

 York, $25,000 to $35,000; Ohio, $22,000 to $26,400; Oldahoma, $5,000 

 to $10,500; South Dakota, $9,400 to $13,000; Utah, $5,000 to $10,000; 

 and Washington, $8,500 to $10,000. Comparing the 33 States report- 

 ing appropriations by their State legislatures for 1912 with the same 

 States in their appropriations for 1911 the difference in favor of the 

 coming year is $65,179.61, an increase of over 20 per cent. 



WOBK. OF THE OFFICE. 



This office has continued to gather information along extension 

 lines and has compiled and published much of it for the benefit of 

 extension workers. Publications relating to College Extension in 

 Agriculture, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the 



