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in co-operation with the States of Arizona, Colorado, Arkansas, 

 Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, 

 Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, 

 Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia. For 

 the work in these States the Department has allotted approx- 

 imately $25,000. We are also at this time contemplating agree- 

 ments with the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Washington and 

 Oklahoma. 



The purposes of State marketing agencies have been of two 

 general kinds, — demonstrational and investigational. Certain 

 States, as Colorado, carry on both types of work. Our proced- 

 ure in States carrying marketing information to the farmers by 

 demonstrational methods has been to enter into an agreement 

 with the State university or agricultural college for the employ- 

 ment of a man to undertake the duties of field agent in market- 

 ing in that State, and through him and the county agent the 

 information gathered by the Office of Markets and Rural Organ- 

 ization and the college is carried to the people. All activities 

 involving extension work are carried on through the State's 

 relation service, in accordance with the general Memorandum 

 of Understanding of the Secretary of Agriculture and the sev- 

 eral States. 



In practically all such cases the field agent in marketing, the 

 title under which all our representatives in the States under this 

 project are designated, is under the control of the director of 

 extension, reporting to him and following plans and procedures 

 outlined and controlled by the chief of the Office of Markets and 

 Rural Organization. 



The Memoranda of Understanding between the Office of 

 Markets and the States of Colorado and Virginia illustrate the 

 different types of agreements, the former being demonstrational 

 and the latter investigational. 



The agreement with the State of Colorado is headed "Exten- 

 sion Work in Agriculture and Home Economics in the State of 

 Colorado, by Co-operation between the Office of Markets and 

 Rural Organization and the State Agricultural College of Colo- 

 rado. ..." Quoting exactly from the Memorandum of Un- 

 derstanding with Colorado, the object of the work is "to carry 

 to the farmers in Colorado by demonstration methods useful in- 



