10 BULLETIN 83, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
There was general expansion of the extension work of the colleges 
during the past year. The increase in number of persons engaged 
in this work was 66 and in the amount of time given to the work 
over 50 per cent, while the increased amount of time devoted by 
each person to extension work averaged 27.6 per cent. Thirty-one 
of the colleges employed 182 persons for their whole time, an aver- 
age of 5.87 persons per institute, while the number employed "for 
part of their time amounted to 217. The amount of money appro- 
priated increased from $548,352.82 in 1912 to $990,504.20 in 1913. 
The days of service devoted to movable schools increased from 
2,386 to 5,436 and the registered attendance from 36,241 to 73,319. 
The States reporting correspondence schools in 1912 were 7; in 1913, 
12. The days of service devoted to this work in 1912. were 656; in 
1913, 1,889; and the number of students registered increased from 
2,162 to 7,649. 
The States reporting rural study clubs in 1912 were 2; in 1913, 6. 
The registered attendance had increased from 2,060 in 1912 to 19,669. 
The number of local advisers in 1912 was 82; in 1913 there were 298; 
itinerant lecturers had increased from 322 to 426; the places visited 
by those engaged in informal teaching in 1912 was 12,142; and the 
persons in attendance, 1,800,513; in 1913 the places visited num- 
bered 54,687; the persons reported in attendance, 2,942,652. 
The number of publications issued had increased from 1,949 to 
102,954. 
It is clear that the extension work of the agricultural colleges is 
developing very rapidly and along a wide range of effort and that 
the different institutions are endeavoring to introduce forms of serv- 
ice along extension lines that will be specially adapted to the condi- 
tions in their several States. 
SECTION ON EXTENSION WORK OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN 
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES AND EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 
At meetings of this section at Washington, D. C, November 12 
and 13, 1913, the following topics were discussed: (1) Organization 
in a college for extension; (2) problems confronting the agricultural 
colleges in their extension work and suggestions for meeting them; 
(3) things the college should undertake to accomplish through its 
extension division and how they should be undertaken; (4) coopera- 
tion with other agencies in agricultural extension; and (5) organiza- 
tion in a county or community for extension. The papers and the 
discussion of them are published in full in the proceedings of the 
association. 
Two very important reports were presented by c ommi ttees ap- 
pointed at the Atlanta meeting of the association: One, a committee 
on organization of courses for preparation of extension workers: the 
