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priation for the Extension Service has been too small to permit the paying 

 of salaries to a separate Extension staff. 



The Director of the Experiment Station was appointed by the Board of 

 Trustees, Director of Extension work. While this might not be a desirable 

 arrangement in some of our larger Institutions receiving liberal appropriations 

 for the different lines of work, it possesses advantages at this Station where 

 the majority of those engaged in agricultural work have to divide their atten- 

 tion and time to some extent, at least, between teaching, investigation, and 

 extension work. The general correspondence relating to agricultural work 

 is now sent to one office for attention. These letters very frequently combine 

 a request for Station literature, requests that names be placed upon the per- 

 manent mailing list, together with questions relating to general agriculture 

 of every conceivable kind. 



This arrangement combines the Extension Service so closely with the in- 

 structional and investigational work of the various departments that it has 

 the advantage of making all of the teachings and relations of this Institution 

 with the citizens of the State uniform avoiding in this way some of the 

 serious difficulties experienced by Institutions where the work of the College 

 Station, and Extension Service have become more clearly separated and 

 distinct. 



In the writer's judgment there is a point in the development of agricultural 

 departments in all Institutions where the work may advantageously be 

 coordinated along the lines of instruction, research, and extension. For 

 example, all work under horticultural lines, should very properly be done as 

 a part of and largely under the direction of the Horticultural Department. 

 The same would be equally true of Agronomy and Animal Husbandry work 

 of the Institution as well as in other agricultural departments which have 

 not been mentioned. Under existing conditions owing to a lack of sufficient 

 funds in order to enable the different lines of work at this Institution to be 

 more clearly defined the present arrangement for carrying on the various 

 activities are probably as satisfactory and efficient as any other plan that 

 could be devised. 



The Station has established the policy of concentrating the best efforts 

 of each department upon one main line of experimentation. This is especially 

 true of Adams Fund projects. In a general way it is the policy of the Station 

 to allow one main Adams Fund project in each department and to reduce 

 the number of Hatch projects sufficiently to allow careful and intensive con- 

 sideration to be given to all projects that are being conducted and to transfer 

 to the Extension Service some of the work which has been conducted hereto- 

 fore as a part of the work under the Hatch Fund. This has reference largely 

 to the many variety tests that have been conducted in the Horticultural 

 Department with Hatch Funds. 



There has been introduced into the Station records a card inventory system 

 which not only keeps the inventory records up to date at all times, but lists 

 items in a convenient form for reference under the proper headings as required 

 on Station vouchers, which will supply detailed information with reference 

 to the Station inventory at all times. Files of inventory cards of all Station 



