REPORT OF DIRECTOR OF STATES RELATIONS SERVICE. 313 



OFFICE OF EXTENSION WORK IN THE SOUTH. 



Bradford Knapp, Chief. 



The Farmers Cooperative Demonstration Work formerly carried 

 on by the Bureau of Plant Industry in 15 Southern States was trans- 

 ferred in the beginning of the year to the States Relations Service, 

 when it was given the official designation of Office of Extension Work 

 in the South. 



As now organized this office carries on the following general lines 

 of extension work in cooperation with the State agricultural colleges 

 in the 15 Southern States: 



(1) Administrative work in carrying out the provisions of the 

 cooperative agricultural extension act of May 8, 1914. 



(2) Demonstration extension work through county agents, which 

 includes the boys' club work. 



(3) Girls' clubs and home demonstration work through women 

 county agents. 



(4) Extension work of specialists through the county and women 

 agents. 



(5) Negro demonstration work, including boys' and girls' clubs 

 for negroes. 



ADMINISTRATIVE. 



Under the provisions of the extension act all of the extension work 

 of the State agricultural colleges and of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture has been coordinated in the Southern States. 

 There has been established a distinct administrative division of the 

 college of agriculture in each State known generally as the division 

 of extension work or the extension service, in charge of a director, 

 who, under the general plan of administration, is made responsible 

 both to the college of agriculture and the United States Department 

 of Agriculture for the faithful carrying out of the plans mutually 

 agreed to under the provisions of the agricultural extension act. 



The basis for this arrangement in each State is a general memo- 

 randum of understanding, signed by the president of the college and 

 the Secretary of Agriculture. The project agreements or plans of 

 work are drawn annually by mutual conference between representa- 

 tives of the department forces and those of the colleges and submitted 

 for approval. 



Each of the 15 Southern States composing the extension work in 

 the South accepted the provisions of the act and within the first year 

 adopted plans for the further coordination of all the extension work 

 of the department and the college within the State. Prior to the 

 passage of this act many of the State institutions had little or no 

 funds for extension work, and some of them had never attempted 

 this character of work. 



In several of the States the agricultural work of the Department 

 and the State had been coordinated for a year or more prior to the 

 passage of the agricultural extension act. 



All the department's cooperative extension work is administered 

 through the Director of the States Relations Service. The southern 

 division of this work is in charge of a chief and an assistant chief, 



