548 Thirty-second Annual Report 



The irregularity of the increases shown above needs a few 

 words of explanation. The sharp decline in attendance for 

 1917-18 was clearly due to the World War. The slight increase 

 in the following year can be accounted for by the number of 

 students who returned to the University after being discharged 

 from the Army. In 1919-20 colleges and universities through- 

 out the country gained very largely in attendance. Our 

 own registration in the College of Agriculture showed an in- 

 crease of 340 percent. Part of this gain has already been 

 accounted for; and the remainder can be explained by the more 

 general recognition of the value of college training for men 

 entering the various agricultural pursuits, the more extended 

 knowledge of the character of the instruction offered, and the 

 increased population of the State. 



AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION WORK 



What has been said thus far relates to the campus teach- 

 ing of the College of Agriculture. Developments during the 

 past ten to fifteen years have made it necessary to distinguish 

 between the resident teaching and the extension of the agricul- 

 tural colleges. It has come about that a very large part of the 

 teaching efforts of the College of Agriculture are put forth 

 throughout the State ; and at the same time a smaller portion of 

 the teaching work is done within college classrooms and labora- 

 tories. This is as it should be. The people of the farming 

 communities recognize their need of instruction, and they as 

 frankly ask that the college extend its activities to every part 

 of the State where farmers and their families can come together 

 to receive instruction. 



Practically every man and woman on the farms of Ari- 

 zona knows of the work of the County Agricultural Agents and 

 the Home Demonstration Agents who are working in the agri- 

 cultural counties of the State. Not all of them realize that 

 these men and women are members of the teaching faculty 

 of the College of Agriculture. Increasingly, however, the peo- 

 ple are becoming aware of the purpose of the College to teach 

 agriculture and home economics wherever country communi- 

 ties are willing to organize to receive instruction. So the work 

 of agricultural education is widening its field of influence; and 

 the instructors at the University and among the farms and 

 farm homes of the State are finding the people becoming more 

 responsive to intelligent instruction and readier to do their 

 share to make cooperative agricultural extension work more 



