96 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



various station activities, and oi-fjanization on a more thorough and 

 systematic basis was recorded, and in many instances the stations 

 were benefited by greater financial assistance on the part of State 

 legislatures and in a lesser degree from other sources. 



The appropriations received by the stations as provided for by 

 the acts of Congress amounted to $1,545,000 for the fiscal year ended 

 June 30, 1912. Since the Adams fund has reached its maximum the 

 Federal funds as determined by the Hatch and Adams Acts remain 

 the same from year to year for all stations except those located in 

 Alaska and the insular possessions, exclusive of the Philippines, for 

 which Congress up to the present has made provision in the annual 

 appropriations for this department. The work of the stations during 

 the past year was aided by State appropriations to the extent of 

 about $1,250,000, and the Federal and State funds were supplemented 

 by fees, contributions, and amounts realized from the sale of farm 

 products and other sources aggregating nearly a million dollars. 

 The total of the funds at the disposal of the experiment stations for 

 the year was approxiuiately $3,707,000. 



The policy previously pursued by this ofRce in relation to the 

 expenditure of the Hatch and Adams funds was maintained. The 

 inspection of the past year's accounts showed in general a prompt sat- 

 isfaction of station liabilities and an improvement in the system of 

 accounting. The office has held that the expense of station account- 

 ing should be limited to only such a charge against the Hatch fund 

 as is involved in the simple bookkeeping required by this department 

 to show the expenditure of the Federal funds for each fiscal year. 

 Efforts were continued to secure a larger amount of definite experi- 

 mental work with the Hatch fund by relieving it from charges for 

 administration, compiled publications, and demonstrations. 



In accordance with the principle of using the Federal funds only 

 for experimental and research work, the office has continued to em- 

 phasize and urge the need of systematizing the extension work and 

 organizing it under a supervision other than that of the stations. 

 The progress made in this direction is illustrated by the fact that 

 already in more than 40 States extension work has been organized 

 under the agricultural college, and extension directors, as special and 

 separate officers, have been appointed and placed in charge of the 

 work. 



With regard to station publications, the department took the posi- 

 tion that the issue of compiled bulletins of an entirely popular char- 

 acter, as already mentioned, can not be recognized as a proper charge 

 against the Hatch fund, and that all stations should adopt a definite 

 and regular policy in publishing the annual report as stipulated in the 

 Hatch Act. Attention was also called to the importance and advis- 

 ability of bringing out more conspicuously in the station publica- 



