34G RURAL NEW YORK 



under this act beffiin in 1914 and after 1922 will 

 amount to $195,()()() annually for New York, based 

 on the rural population. This distribution is sub- 

 ject to revision on the basis of each federal census. 

 To be available to any state, the federal appropria- 

 tion must be accepted by the state legislature and 

 assigned to the State College of Agriculture, and it 

 must be matched by an equal annual appropriation 

 on the part of the State for the same purposes and 

 under the same conditions. Thus, about $9,000,000 

 will be available to the several states in and after the 

 year 1923 for the purpose for which the appro])riation 

 is made. It is to be used in educational and demon- 

 stration work away from the state institutions. It 

 is purely an extension movement and may be applied 

 to any of the lines of extension work mentioned above. 

 The fund is administered in New York by the State 

 College of Agriculture, subject to the general super- 

 vision of the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture. 



New York was probably the first of the states to 

 engage in extension work in agriculture under the 

 authorization of a special grant for the purpose by 

 the legislature. The first appropriation, for such 

 work, under the so-called Nixon Bill (named for the 

 late S. F. Nixon, Speaker of the Assembly), was in 

 1894, now more than a quarter century ago. 



OTHER EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 



New York State has a large number of organiza- 

 tions touching the agricultural interest. A summary 



