AGRICULTURE AND HOME ECONOMICS IN UNITED STATES. II 



Since that time its growth has been great and rapid. At present its 

 general officers are the Secretary of Agriculture, Assistant Secretary 

 (in charge of extension work, publications, and exhibits), and Director 

 of Scientific Work. Its employees number 20,000, of whom 4,800 are in 

 Washington. About 2,000 scientists are engaged in its research work. 

 In 1921-22 the appropriations for its regular work and publications 

 aggregated $40,000,000, of which $10,000,000 is used for research. 



Its research work is done through the following bureaus: Weather 

 Bureau, Bureau of Animal Industry, Bureau of Plant Industry, Forest 

 Service, Bureau of Soils, Bureau 'of Chemistry, Bureau of Entomology, 

 Bureau of Biological Survey, Bureau of Public Roads (and agricultural 

 engineering), Bureau of Agricultural Economics, and States Relations 

 Service (including Office of Experiment Stations, Division of Insular 

 Stations, and Office of Home Economics). There are also a Division of 

 Publications and an Office of Exhibits. Besides a large number of 

 scientific and technical reports and bulletins and popular publications, 

 especially the series of farmers' bulletins, the department publishes the 

 following periodicals: Journal of Agricultural Research, Experiment 

 Station Record, and Weather Review. 



The research work is carried on in laboratories and experimental 

 fields in Washington and vicinity and at field stations in the States, 

 Alaska, and the insular possessions. There are also many special inves- 

 tigations in the United States and other countries and much research 

 work in cooperation with the State agricultural colleges and experiment 

 stations. 



OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The Office of Experiment Stations in the States Relations Service 

 administers the Federal acts (Hatch and Adams Acts) granting funds 

 to the State agricultural experiment stations, makes an annual inspection 

 of their work and expenditures under the Federal acts, has advisory 

 relations with them regarding lines of work, equipment and personnel, 

 prepares reports to Congress on their work and expenditures, collects 

 and disseminates information regarding similar institutions throughout 

 the world. 



The Experiment Station Record, prepared in this office, contains sum- 

 maries of the publications of the Department of Agriculture and the 

 agricultural experiment stations and similar institutions in the United 

 States and elsewhere and of other scientific literature pertaining to 

 agriculture wherever published, together with editorials and notes on 

 developments in agricultural research and the progress of institutions for 

 agricultural education and research throughout the world. The Record 

 is published in two annual volumes of nine mynbers each, with detailed 

 author and subject index. The forty-seventh volume is now in progress. 



