EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Vol. XXXIII. July, 1915. No. 1. 



Under the plan adopted by the last Congress for the reorganization 

 of the Federal Department of Agriculture, the States Relations 

 Service Avas formally established by Secretary Houston, and began 

 its activities with the new fiscal jenr on July 1, 1915. The new 

 organization developed upon the foundation of the Office of Experi- 

 ment Stations, which it will include. In addition the cooperative 

 demonstration work of the Department has been transferred from 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry and joined with the extension work 

 of the States. 



The functions assigned to the new Service are first of all, as the 

 name implies, to represent the Secretary of Agriculture in his relations 

 with the state agricultural colleges and experiment stations under 

 the Morrill, Hatch, Adams, and Smith-Lever Acts and acts supple- 

 mentary thereto. In addition, the Service is to carry on the activities 

 authorized by Congress for farmers' cooperative demonstration work, 

 investigations relating to agricultural schools, farmers' institutes, 

 the relative utility and economy of agricultural products used for 

 food, clothing, and other uses in the home, and the maintenance of 

 agricultural experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, and 

 Guam, and such other matters as the Secretary of Agriculture may 

 designate from time to time. 



To carry on these various lines of work the Service will comprise 

 the following offices: (1) The Office of the Director of the Service, 

 which includes the general work and administration of the Service; 

 (2) the Office of Experiment Stations, including the relations with 

 the State and insular experiment stations, publication of Experiment 

 Station Record, etc.; (3) the Office of Extension Work in the South, 

 including the farmers' cooperative demonstration work and the 

 Smith-Lever agricultural extension work in fifteen Southern States ; 



(4) the Office of Extension Work in the North and West, including 

 the demonstration and extension work in the remaining States; and 



(5) The Office of Home Economics, including investigations relative 

 to foods, clothing, and household equipment and management. 



The work of the Service relating to agricultural instruction is 

 to be under the immediate attention of the Director, as is also that 

 relating to farmers' Institutes and similar organizations, the latter 

 being conducted in close cooperation with the offices of extension 

 work. The Service will thus have jurisdiction over matters relating 



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