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 STATES RELATIONS SERVICE. 



ORGANIZATION. 



[Extract from the memorandum (No. 140) of the Secretary of Agriculture providing for the organization 



of the States Relations Sen'ice.J 



In accordance with the provisions of the act of Congress of March 4, 1915, making 

 appropriations for the Department of Agriculture, I hereby establish a States Relations 

 Service in this department, which shall represent the Secretary of Agriculture in his 

 relations with the State agricultural colleges and experiment stations under the 

 acts of Congress of July 2, 1862, August 30, 1890, March 2, 1887, March 16, 1906, May 8, 

 1914, and acts supplementary thereto, and in carrying out the provisions of acts of 

 Congress making appropriations to this department for farmers' cooperative demon- 

 stration work, investigations relating to agricultural schools, farmers' institutes, the 

 relative utility and economy of agricultural products used for food, clothing, and other 

 uses in the home, and the maintenance of agricultural experiment stations in Alaska, 

 Hawaii, Porto Rico, and Guam, and in such other matters as the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture shall designate from time to time. 



The States Relations Service shall include the following offices: (1) The office of the 

 director of the service, which shall include those officers and employees engaged in 

 the general work and administration of the service; (2) the Office of Experiment 

 Stations, including the work of the service relating to agricultural experiment station.-^; 

 (3) the Office of Extension Work in the South, including the farmers' cooperative 

 demonstration work and the Smith-Lever agricultural extension work in 15 Southern 

 States; (4) the Office of Extension Work in the North and West, including the farmers* 

 cooperative demonstration work and the Smith-Lever agricultural exteasiun work 

 in 33 Northern and Western States; and (5) the Office of Home Economics, including 

 investigations relative to foods, clothing, and hou.sehold equipment and management. 



The work of the service relating to agricultural instruction and to farmers' insti- 

 tutes and similar organizations shall be under the immediate direction of the director, 

 and the work relating to farmers' institutes and similar organizations shall be carried on 

 in close cooperation with the offices of extension work. 



The States Relations Service will take under consideration matters relating to all 

 the extension work carried on by the several bureaus and offices of the department 

 and those connected with the administration of the Smith-Lever Extension Act, 

 All plans for demonstration and extension work originating in any bureau or in any 

 State should first be submitted to the States Relations Service, which will make 

 recommendations regarding them to the Secretary. Approved plans for demonstration 

 and extension work by any bureau should not be put into operation in any State until 

 they have been brought to the attention of the Director of the Stat<^ llolations Service 

 and an opportunity has been given for arranging with tlm extension directors of tho 

 agricultural colleges regarding the (*xe<ution of these plans in tho States concerned. 



This order became effective July 1, 1915. 



WORK. 



(Provisions in acts making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture] 

 ADMINISTRATION OF THE HATCH, ADAMS, AND SMrTH-LKVER ACTS. 



To enable tho Secretary of Agriculture to enforce the provisions of the above acts 

 [Hatch and Adams] and the act approved May eighth, niiutocn hundnni and four- 

 teen entitled "An act to jm)vide for cooperative agricultural «'xtension work between 

 tho agricultural colleges in the several States nn-civiiig the iKMiefits of an act of Con- 

 gress approved July second, eighteen huiidrt'd and sixty-two, and of acts supplementary 



