EDITORIAL. 605 



To remedy the situation an organization based on the character of 

 service rendered has been outlined, to take the place of the existing 

 bureau organization. This as at present contemplated would include 

 some six main groups, such as a research service, a rural organization 

 service, a state relations service, a weather service, a forest service, 

 and a regulatory service. 



The research service would embrace the experimental and investi- 

 gational activities of the Department in the direction of acquiring 

 new knowledge, and such agricultural surveys as are conducted. 

 The various phases of research would naturally be headed by leaders, 

 and the elimination of regulatory functions or extension activities 

 and other conflicting functions would give opportunity for concen- 

 tration upon research problems, their definition, organization, and 

 solution. 



The rural organization service would deal with questions of or 

 ganization for social purposes, for production, and for marketing or 

 purchasing, rural finance and credits, land tenures, labor, farni man- 

 agement and home management, public roads, agricultural forecasts 

 and estimates of crop production. 



The state relations service would constitute the special agency for 

 extending and broadening the relations of the Department with the 

 agricultural colleges, experiment stations, and other state institutions 

 doing agricultural work. This, it was suggested, should include an 

 exchange of project plans, the organization of committees, and team 

 work generally. The supervision of the funds given to the States for 

 experiment stations and the advisory relations with these institutions 

 would be included in this service, as would also matters relating to 

 extension work. 



The weather service would remain practically as it is at present 

 except that the agricultural climatological work would be grouped 

 under the research service. The forest service would be an admin- 

 istrative organization charged with the maintenance, protection, and 

 management of the national forests, including questions involved in 

 the acquisition of lands and the protection of navigable streams. 



Under the regulatory service would be grouped the various duties 

 now scattered throughout the Department having to do with the en- 

 forcement of the food and drugs act, the meat inspection laws, and 

 the insecticide and fungicide act, the handling of serums and viruses, 

 plants and seeds, animal and plant quarantine, the inspection of ex- 

 port animals, game protection, grain and cotton standardization, and 

 similar matters. 



The fimdamental idea of the new plan of organization, as Dr. Gal- 

 loway explamed, is coordination, the grouping of activities according 

 to objects rather than according to methods, and the encouragement 



