REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE STATES RELATIONS 



SERVICE. 



United States Department of Agriculture, 



States Relations Service, 

 Washington, D. C ., July 7, 1917. 

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

 Eehitions Service for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. 

 Respectfully, 



A. C. True, Director. 

 Hon. D. F. Houston, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The States Relations Service represents the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture in his relations with the State agricultural colleges and 

 experiment stations under the acts of Congress granting funds to 

 these institutions for agricultural experiment stations and coopera- 

 tive extension work in agriculture and home economics, and in carry- 

 ing out the provisions of acts of Congress making appropriations to 

 the Department of Agriculture for farmers' cooperative demonstra- 

 tion work, investigations relating to agricultural schools, farmers' 

 institutes, 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 15 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, in- 

 cluding investigations relative to foods, clothing, and household 

 equipment and management. 



During the year ended June 30, 1917, the service directly adminis- 

 tered appropriations aggregating $1,529,680, and ha,d aclministrative, 



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