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census. This latter provision caused some shifting of funds 

 in 1920 from the Eastern and Middle "Western to the Far 

 "Western and Southern states. Moreover, this additional 

 money was not to be paid to any state "until an equal sum 

 had been appropriated for that year by the legislature of 

 such state, or provided by state, county, college, local au- 

 thority, or individual contributions from within the state." 

 And this duplicate or offset money is subject to the same 

 rules and regulations as the federal funds. 



These moneys cannot be used for buildings or for the 

 purchase or rental of land, for teaching at the college, for 

 agricultural trains, or more than five per cent of them for 

 printing. With the state appropriations which are usually 

 much more than sufficient to meet the required offset and 

 the county appropriations and other resources of county 

 agent work, there is now (1922) annually available approxi- 

 mately eighteen million dollars for extension work in all 

 its phases. 



THE COUNTY AGENT'S PLAGE IN THE EXTENSION SYSTEM 



Up to this point the procedure in all the states is quite 

 uniform. As already pointed out in chapter three, there 

 is a wide difference in the various states, in the relations 

 between the states the state colleges and the counties. 

 In some states the colleges dominate if not entirely control 

 the work, while in others they share its management with 

 the counties on a partnership basis. There are all degrees 

 between these two extremes. 



Usually and ideally, however, much the same relation- 

 ship is established between the college and the county asso- 

 ciation as exists between the college and the Department 

 of Agriculture. A memorandum is entered into between 

 the college and the county association, or farm bureau as 



