704 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



1,230,940 are reported as "miscellaneous" or in irregular attend- 

 ance. There was appropriated $397,573.42 by thirty-seven States 

 for extension work in 1910-11, and $427,028.71 was expended by 

 thirty-six States. For the college year 1911-12, $584,171 has been 

 appropriated for thirty-seven States. 



The uniting of this new department of instruction with the other 

 work of the institution, so as to become an organic part of that work 

 and representative of the instruction given by the college and of 

 the researches by the experiment station, is most important and 

 pressing. 



The state colleges in which agriculture is taught are institutions 

 broadly organized to give instruction in many subjects, and in 

 twenty States the agi'icultural college is a part of the state univer- 

 sity. It is now generally agreed that the agricultural work of the 

 institution should be organized as a distinct unit, to which the name 

 College of Agriculture is commonly given. Within this college are 

 three main lines, — research, interior teaching, and extension work. 

 It is well, therefore, that three administrative divisions should be 

 made within the college to which the names Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, Division of Instruction, and Extension Division may 

 be respectively given. But it is also appropriate, and indeed essen- 

 tial, that the college as a whole should be divided according to the 

 subject matter included within its curriculum into departments such 

 as those of agronomy, animal husbandry, dairying, etc. 



Since it is highly important that the information on any subject 

 given to the students and public should represent the views of the 

 institution as a whole, all the experimenters, teachers, and extension 

 workers should be grouped by departments representing the special- 

 ties in which they are working. Thus the department of agronomy 

 should embrace all the agronomists employed by the college, whether 

 they are engaged in experimenting, teaching, or extension work. 

 Each department will naturally be presided over by a chief, who 

 will have authority to assemble all the workers in this line for consul- 

 tation regarding the subject matter of their work, methods of in- 

 struction, etc. All the workers will be expected to keep in close 

 touch with their respective departments, so as to be fully acquainted 

 with their work and the progress of knowledge in these lines. 



On the other hand, each member of a department will also be a 

 member of a division, or in some cases of two or three divisions, and 

 be expected to report to one or more division directors who will have 

 authority to control the whole or parts of his time and assign him to 

 duties as experimenter, teacher, or extension worker. This dual re- 

 sponsibility is already recognized in many institutions as regards the 

 experiment station and the teaching, and needs only to be extended to 

 cover the extension work. As far as possible it is very desirable 



