402 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



It will be recalled that in the appropriation act for the current 

 fiscal year, the Secretary of Agriculture was directed to prepare a 

 plan " for reorganizing, redirecting, and systematizing the work of 

 the Department of Agriculture as the interests of economical and 

 efficient administration may require." In accordance with this direc- 

 tion, a proposed plan of reorganization was submitted with the es- 

 timates and here approved by Congress, becoming effective July 1. 



Under the new j^lan sul)stantially the present bureau organization 

 is continued, but various transfers Tvill be made from bureau to 

 bureau. Thus, the various relations of the Department to the state 

 agricultural colleges and experiment stations and similar institutions 

 will be gathered together around the Office of Experiment Stations, 

 which, because of this broader scope, will be known as the States 

 Relations Service. This change involves the transfer to the new 

 bureau of the farm demonstration work and of the farm home man- 

 agement work now conducted by the Bureau of Plant Industry, the 

 latter through its Office of Farm Management. It is expected that 

 the demonstration work of the South and of the North and West will 

 be conducted as a new branch of the States Relations Service, wdiile 

 the farm home management work will be associated with the food 

 work of the Office in a proposed division which is expected to cover 

 the broader subject of home economics, including studies of food, 

 clothing, and household equipment and management. On the other 

 hand, the Irrigation and Drainage Investigations of the Office of Ex- 

 periment Stations will be detached from it, and together with the 

 farm architectural work now^ conducted by the Office of Farm Man- 

 agement will be recombined with the Office of Public Roads to form 

 the Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering. 



Specific provision is made for an Office of Markets and Rural Or- 

 ganization under that name, which will carry on the existing lines of 

 work in studies on cooperative handling ami marketing of agricul- 

 tural products, transportation and storage problems, rural credits 

 and insurance, and other forms of cooperation in rural communities. 

 The new office will also take over the farm credit and insurance in- 

 quiries of the Office of Farm Management, the cotton standardiza- 

 tion w^ork with the exception of certain technological investigations 

 from the Bureau of Plant Industry, and studies on the marketing of 

 milk from the Bureau of Animal Industry : and will cooperate with 

 the Bureau of Animal Industr}^ and the Bureau of Chemistry in the 

 poultry and egg work of the Department. 



The total appropriation for these purposes has been increased to 

 $409,050. In addition, $75,000 is granted to enable the Secretary to 

 carry out the provisions of the United States Cotton Futures Act of 

 August 18, 1914, this supplementing the appropriation of $150,000 

 carried in the act itself and available until expended for designating 



