STATES RELATIONS SERVICE. 325 



OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR. 



Problems connected with the organization and aolminif5tration of 

 the cooperative extension work continued to occupy to a hirge extent 

 the attention of the director and other oflicers of the service during 

 tlie second year of the operation of the States Hehitions Service. 

 Much progress was made in the practical determination of the scope 

 and limitations of the work and relationships under the Cooperative 

 Extension Act of May 8, 1914, and related Fedeial and State legis- 

 lation. Through correspondence and personal conferences with offi- 

 cers of the State agricultural colleges and representatives of the 

 association of these colleges a more complete and satisfactory under- 

 standing of mutual privileges and obligations involved in the plan- 

 ning and conducting of cooperative enterprises under existing laws 

 was arrived at. 



Much attention was given to the development of relations with the 

 other bureaus of the department by means of which satisfactory 

 arrangements might be made with the State institutions for the ex- 

 tension work of these bureaus authorized by Congress. This often 

 involved the establishment of practical lines of demarcation between 

 extension enterprises and research or regulatory work. It also 

 brought under consideration the broad problems of the relationships 

 of the cooperative extension organization with organizations such as 

 the State departments of agriculture and education, sanitary live- 

 stock boards, health services, etc. 



The routine business of the office was increased greatly by the 

 enlargement of the cooperative work and by the war emergency de- 

 mands on the department. 



, EDITORIAL DIVISION. 



W. H. Beal, Chief. 



All the publications of the service except Experiment Station 

 Record were handled in an editorial capacity by this division as 

 usual. The character of the work of the division was not modified 

 materially during the year, but the number and volume of publica- 

 tions issued was increased. The service was called upon especially to 

 meet a greatly increased demand for its publications bearing upon 

 food conservation. 



One hundred and nine documents, aggregating 4,845 pages, were 

 issued by the service. These included 22 numbers of Experiment 

 Station Record, 2 reports, 15 technical bulletins, 6 articles in the 

 Journal of Agricultural Research, 13 insular stations publications, 1 

 Yearbook article, 5 Farmers' Bulletins, 11 illustrated lectures, 4 

 numbers of Agricultural Education Monthly, 7 numbers of Farm 

 Demonstration Monthly, 21 documents relating to cooperative ex- 

 tension work in agriculture and home economics, and 2 administra- 

 tive circulars. In addition to these formal documents, the service 

 also issued (either in printed or in mimeographed form) a large 

 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 



