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moneys expended by the agricultural colleges under the Hatch 

 and Adams Acts, and under this Act, in order that the Federal 

 Government may be in constant touch with these institutions. 

 This act organizes on a vast scale the extension work of the col- 

 leges. The work is on a cooperative basis, both as to financial 

 support and as to control, each particular project being mutually 

 agreed upon by the college and the Secretary of Agriculture and 

 approved in advance. The college thus becomes the organizing 



FIG. 65. County section, division of crop reports, Bureau of Crop Estimates, expert tabula- 

 tors and computers, who work up returns from 3000 county reporters who report crop and 

 live-stock conditions in their respective counties. This constitutes one source of information 

 upon which the government crop reports are based. 



center for the extension work, which now has four principal forms, 

 namely, (a) county agricultural agents; (6) boys' and girls' clubs; 

 (c) extension specialists, who cooperate with the county agents in 

 influencing the rural population directly; (d) home economics, 

 which is work for the farm women and the farm home. 



(5) Vocational Education Act of 1917. This act appropriates 

 money for the support of vocational education of secondary grade 

 in agriculture, home economics, and industry. The act provides a 

 scheme of cooperation between the Federal Government and the 



