58 AGRICULTURAL APPROPRIATION BILL, 1924. 



ment not anj^ of the State money that is put into the State publica- 

 tions other than Smith-Lever offset. The State sjiends much more 

 for its publications than is shown on this li.~t: many of tlie collejre 

 publications are extension publications. 



Now, if you are directin<r your (juestion to whether or not there is 

 effort on the part of the I)ei)artiiient of A<rriculture to avoid tlupli- 

 cation of publications, the auswei- to that is that there is not any con- 

 scious effort at the present time. But I would like to add the 

 tliouirht that I think there is little serious duplication, and that it 

 miirht be well to take the matter up with the State colletres to see 

 if duplication can be avoided. 



Mr. Andersox. Of course, I do not believe the Federal Govern- 

 ment ou<rht to undertake to censor the pul)lications wliich may be 

 issued by the State for the education of its own citizens. But I do 

 think where Federal money is spent in publishin«r documents for 

 citizens of a State that it miojht be wise to see that that money is 

 spent in such a wa\ that it does not duplicate exi)enditures already 

 being made for Federal puri)oses. I think that is as fai- as we can iro. 

 but it seems to me we can legitimately go that far. 



Assistant Secretary Pugslky, The way it works out is practically 

 like this: An extension director in a State finds a need for bulletins 

 on a certain subject for use of county workers. He scans not only 

 the State bulletin list but the Federal bulletin list available for 

 that purpose; he may find the Federal bulletin on that subject is 

 not local enough and then he asks for the i)ublication of a bulletin 

 to cover his territory. Or he nui}' find that the supi)ly of Federal 

 bulletins is not sufficient to meet the need of his county workei-s 

 and he publishes a bulletin written by the workei"S of the same 

 State, in Avliich they incorporate many of the things contained in 

 the Federal bulletins. 



Mr. Anderson. There is no increase in the total amount avaihible 

 for publication w'ork under the Smith-Lever Act for the next fiscal 

 year, is there? 



Doctor True. No, sir. 



Mr. Anderson. That act is entirely matured, is it not? 



Doctor True. Yes, sir. 



STATEMENTS OF MR. G. I. CHRISTIE, DIRECTOR OF EXTENSION. 

 PURDUE UNIVERSITY, LA FAYETTE, IND.; MR. B. H. CROCH- 

 ERON, DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION. UNIVERSITY 

 OF CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE; MR. T. 0. WALTON, 

 DIRECTOR OF EXTENSION SERVICE, STATE COLLEGE OF AGRI- 

 CULTURE, TEXAS ; AND MR. W. M. JARDINE. PRESIDENT KANSAS 

 STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



FOR COOPERATIVE A(JRICULTURAL EXTENSU>X WOUK, ETC. 



Mr. Andeuson. The ccjmmitlee will returu (his moruing to the 

 items on pages 30 and 82 for farmers' cooperative demonstration 

 work and for cooperative agricultural extension work, which were 

 formerly imder the States Relations Sci'vicc :ind which are pro- 

 posed in this estiiuiite to be placed under llu' oHit'e of extensions. 

 We will hear the representatives of the land-grant colleges this 

 morning. 



