REPORT OF DIRECTOR OF STATES RELATIONS SERVICE. 319 



OFFICE OF EXTENSION WORK IN THE NORTH AND WEST. 



C. B. Smith, Chief. 



The extension work formerly carried on by^the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry in its Office of Farm Management was transferred at the 

 beginning of the year to the States Relations Service, where its scope 

 was enlarged, and it was given the official designation of Office of 

 Extension Work in the North and West. 



As now organized this office carries on five distinct lines of exten- 

 sion work in cooperation with the State agricultural colleges in 33 

 Northern and Western States, as follows: 



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

 cooperative agricultural extension act of May 8, 1914. 



(2) Extension work by means of county agricultural agents. 



(3) Boys' and girls' club work. 



(4) Farm management demonstrations, and 



(5) Extension work with farm women by means of women county 

 agents, usually known as home-demonstration agents. 



The extension work with farm women was not organized until 

 practically the close of the fiscal year. It is contemplated that this 

 work will supplement the work of the men county agents, having 

 special reference to the farm home and the problems of the country 

 women. 



Six women county agents in as many Northern and Western States 

 were at work at the close of the year. The work is too new to re- 

 port results other than to note the increasing interest in this phase 

 of extension by both men and women. This is shown by the fact that 

 at least 15 counties have perfected their organization and raised 

 funds for cooperation with the State agricultural colleges and the 

 Department in the employment of women county agents for the 

 coming year. 



ADMINISTRATION OF THE SMITH-LEVER EXTENSION ACT. 



The section of Cooperative Relationships and Projects, with L. A. 

 Clinton in charge, was created in this office to represent the States 

 Relations Service in handling matters in connection with the work- 

 ing out of plans of cooperation between the various bureaus of the 

 department and the States, and to deal with projects for the cooper- 

 ative work under the agricultural extension act as they are sub- 

 mitted by the States. Specifically, the work of this section has been : 



(1) To correlate the extension work of the Department of Agri- 

 culture with that of the State colleges of agriculture through project 

 agreements. Project agreements have now been prepared covering 

 practically all extension activities of the various bureaus and these 

 projects have, through the States Relations Service, been submitted 

 to and approved by the State extension directors. Where work along 

 similar lines was being conducted by the States the work of the de- 

 partment and the State has in so far as practicable been harmonized 

 and brought under one system representing jointly the department 

 and the State college. 



