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Under this act a general agreement was entered into be- 

 tween the U. S. Department of Agriculture and each of the 

 state colleges, under which the colleges agreed to establish 

 and maintain an administrative division, to administer all 

 extension funds through this division and to cooperate with 

 the Department in all of its extension work. The Depart- 

 ment in turn agreed to establish and maintain a states rela- 

 tions service through which it would conduct all agricul- 

 tural relations with the states and that it would carry on 

 all of its extension work in cooperation with the colleges. 

 Both mutually agreed that all extension work should be 

 planned and executed together, the colleges initiating and 

 the Department approving the plans, that all agents ap- 

 pointed should be joint representatives of both and that 

 the headquarters of the work should be at the colleges. 

 Thus all agricultural extension work is cooperatively 

 planned and executed in each state. 



FINANCES 



Not all the funds provided were made available the first 

 year, as most of the states did not have the organization 

 ready to make good use of them. The first year ten thou- 

 sand dollars was appropriated to each state without re- 

 striction. The next year six hundred thousand dollars more 

 was made available and thereafter five hundred thousand 

 dollars was added each year for six years or until and in- 

 cluding the fiscal year of 1922-23, and permanently each 

 year thereafter a total of four million, five hundred and 

 eighty thousand dollars annually. 



This money, after the original ten thousand dollars to 

 each state, was to be distributed "in the proportion which 

 the rural population of each state bears to the total rural 

 population/' as determined by the next preceding federal 



