STATES RELATIONS SERVICE. 367 



Taking the figures, -withoiit the emergency fund, and averaging 

 the 15 Southern States, we find that 8.1 per cent was spent in ad- 

 ministration ; 2.1 per cent in printing and distribution of publica- 

 tions ; 43 per cent for county agents ; 24.7 per cent for home demon- 

 stration agents, and 4 per cent for boys' chib work, while 18.1 per 

 cent w^as spent for specialists. 



The average percentage of all funds, exclusive of the emergency 

 fund, sj)ent for the three principal projects county agricultural 

 agents, county home demonstration agents, and boys' club work was 

 71.7 per cent. If we add the emergency fund to these figures and 

 take the grand total, the percentages expended for the different linos 

 of work are, county agents, 49; home demonstration agents, 28.8; 

 boys' club work, 3.8; specialists, 11.7; publications, 1.4; and admin- 

 istration, 5.3. The i)ercentage given for specialists does not include 

 the amounts expended for specialists from various bureaus of the 

 Department of Agriculture. 



The proportionate amounts expended for county agricultural 

 agents and for county home demonstration agents vary in the dif- 

 ferent States. In some States less tlian half as much is expended for 

 home demonstration work as for county agent work, while in one 

 State the sums expended for these two purposes are practically equal. 



The following table shows the expenditures for the various lines of 

 work classified under general subjects: 



Amounts and percentages of funds allotted to various lines of extension icorl: 

 in lOlS-19 in the Southcr)i States. 



COUNTY AGENTS. 



ORGANIZATION. 



Each county has an organization cooperating with the county 

 agent and the State extension service in the work of improving 

 agricultural conditions. In the majority of the Southern States 

 these organizations consist of community organizations of farmers 

 and their families, the county organization generally consisting of 

 representatives from such community organization. In the most of 

 the Southern States this county organization is known as the county 

 farm council; in some it is known as the county farm bureau. Two- 

 thirds of all the counties in the South have perfected such organiza- 

 tions Avithin the last few years, while the other third all have tho 

 foundation laid in community organizations but have not reached 

 the perfection of organization outlined above. These organizations, 



