26 AGRICULTURAL APPROPRIATION BILL, 1924. 



the " what "' and the " liow." It is absolutely essential that we have a 

 united extension program with the home and the rural community as \ 



the object of the ajri'icultural extension teachin<r. While the details jj 



of the work differs in the local connnunities. the Federal office mus't 

 inject national and world aspects of the problem. 



Mr. AxDERsox. Those statements indicate, apparently, that you no 

 longer have the country divided up into districts, with district lead- 

 ers; is that correct? 



Assistant Secretary Puoslky. That is correct. Wp .lo not hn\e 

 separate offices administerin<; the work by districts. 



Mr. Anderson. You will <ro into that later, I take it ? 



Assistant v'^ecretary Prosi.ET. Yes. sir. 



XTiw I Avant to let the point of my remarks run to the proposed 

 reorganization of the entire extension Avork of the department. Tlie 

 Secretary asked me to make a s])ecial study of the extension and pub- 

 lication activities of the dei)artment. and as a result of that study 

 this is what I found [presenting chart to the subcommittee]. Practi- 

 cally every bureau in the department is authorized by the laws of 

 Congress to do research work, many of them to do regulatory work, 

 and a considerable numbei- of them to do extension work. 



To carry out and coordinate the research work and the regulatory 

 work you*^ will recall that Congress two years ago authorized the 

 appointment of a director of scientific Avork and a director of 

 regulatory work. There are^, howeAer, three lines of work in the 

 Department of Agriculture. To my mind, all the work that is 

 authorized in the department falls logically into one of three cla.sses: 

 Research, regulatory, or extension : but up to the present time there 

 has been no director of extension work, outside of the secretary 

 himself, who is correlating the extension work of the department. 

 That is very clear in the chart which you have before you. 



You wilf note that the States Pelations Service has the office ol 

 cooperative extension Avork. In that office is lodged the aduiinis- 

 tration of those funds Avhich are spent in the States for cooperative 

 Avork Avith the agricultural colleges. I^ut there is also in the States 

 Relations Service an office of experiment stations, Avhich deals en- 

 tirely with research problems, for it administers the Hatch and 

 Adams funds for State experiment stations. There is likewise an 

 office of home economic AA'ork doing, in ett'ect, the same sort of work 

 that a bureau does — research Avork and extension Avork. So you 

 can see by the chart that bureaus that had experimental AAork that 

 was done in cooperation Avith the States had to go through an of- 

 fice in the States Relation Service before it went to the director 

 of scientific Avork, even after the establishuieut of that director. The 

 logical place for the office of expci'lnicnt stations is in the office of 

 the director of scientific Avork. 



In the Division of Publications we have tiie editing and i>riuting 

 of bulletins, the release of ])ress material, and the duj^licating and 

 mimeograi>hing, Avhicli is closely related to printing. Hut there aiv 

 also two extension offices — the office of motion pictures and the olVice 

 of exhibits — both offices for visual extension work. AViien a bureau 

 Avants to put out a motion picture oi- an exhibit it goes through the 

 Division of Publications. If it is to be used in cooperative exten- 

 sion AVork, as IK) per cent of the pictuies are. it must go through 



