AGRICULTURE AND HOME .ECONOMICS IN UNITED STATES. 31 



Federal Government: 



States Relations Service $i, 050, 754 



Other bureaus of Department of Agriculture 100, 205 



Federal Smith-Lever funds: 



Regular 4, 080, ooo 



Supplementary i, 500, ooo 



$6, 730, 959 



From sources within the State: 



To offset Federal Smith-Lever funds- 

 Regular 3, 600, ooo 



Supplementary i, 500, ooo 



Additional funds from States, counties, and other sources 6, 666, 401 



11,766,401 



Total 18,497,360 



Since the passage of the Smith-Lever Act Congress has made annual 

 appropriations supplementary to the regular Smith-Lever funds and also 

 providing the States Relations Service of the Department of Agriculture 

 with funds to be used in cooperation with the colleges and counties in 

 extension work. The States and counties have more than met their 

 obligations under the Federal legislation. 



In the relations of the Federal Government with the cooperative exten- 

 sion service the Secretary of Agriculture is represented by the Assistant 

 Secretary as far as general policies and administration are concerned. 

 The director of the States Relations Service is responsible for the general 

 management of the department's affairs relating to extension work. 

 This business is principally conducted through an Office of Extension 

 Work in the States Relations Service. The chief of that office and his 

 assistants confer with the State extension officers and make agreements 

 with them regarding projects and plans of work, financial budgets, and 

 methods of conducting the work in the States and counties. They also 

 make arrangements for the cooperation of specialists from the depart- 

 ment bureaus in the work in the States. The work and expenditures 

 under the Smith-Lever and department funds are anriually inspected 

 in all the States, and when the expenditures are approved the States are 

 certified to the Treasury Department to receive the next installment of 

 the Smith-Lever fund. The funds appropriated to States Relations 

 Service for farmers' cooperative demonstration work are used for the 

 maintenance of the Office of Extension Work and for the payment of 

 part of the salary of extension workers in the States and counties. 



In the States each college receiving the Smith- Lever fund carries on its 

 extension work through an extension division, at the head of which is a 

 director, who acts as the joint representative of the Department of Agri- 

 culture and the college and administers all the extension work in the 

 State. Under him are State leaders of the county work and a force of 

 extension specialists in the various branches of agriculture and home 



