H. In your judgment what should be the remuneration of Extension workers? How should these salaries

compare with those of regular college teachers and Experiment Station workers?

Introduction.

In discussing the theory of extension work, the Committee on Extension in 1911 has given at least five reasons why a comprehensive extension service should be developed at the

agricultural colleges.

1. It is important in itself. There must be some method by which

the masses of the farmers may be reached.

2. It is logical. It follows naturally on research.

3. It is inevitable. The people regard the college as the prime

source of their information.

4. Extension teaching is vital to the highest development of t

the college itself.

5. Extension teaching is the best means by which the college
may act as a clearing-house for those activities designed
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to better country life as a whole.

When this committee was appointed in 1905 there were not over a half dozen organized departments of extension work in the land grant colleges. Since that time the extension teaching of the agricultural colleges has not only become thoroughly rooted in those institutions, but has attained the proportions of a nation-wide movement. At the present time 47 out of the 48 agricultural colleges in the country are engaged in Extension work. The College of Agriculture of the University of Nevada is the only exception. These 47 land grant institutions are receiving definite appropriations from their legislatures, the total of which amounts to almost a million dollars. With the

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passage of the Smith-Lever Bill, providing additional appropriations for every state in the Union, the figures will have reached a tremendous sum.

General Administration.

Forty of the forty-eight agricultural colleges have a definite administration of their extension work, either through an executive extension officer or through a seperate coordinating department. In Table A is given a general directory of the executive extension officers of the agricultural colleges. It will be noticed that there is a great variation in the titles assumed by these officials. There is no common nomenclature in respect to the titles, the variation being due probably to the differences in the nature of each type of work at each institution. And yet it seems that there should be some coordination of titles, some uniformity, that would serve to bind all extension leaders together, nominally, as it were. The titles of " Prof.of together,nominally,

Extension," and "Prof.of Extension Teaching," are

Special mis

nomers, in that it is very rarely that the heads of the extension do any teaching themselves. Their purpose and object is to organize and direct the work, to look after the administration of the work, to plan, try, initiate and advocate methods. Their office is executive, not instructive. The title that best fits the office is " Director of Extension Work."

Special Organization of Extension.

It is not the object of this work to make a study of the various types of extension organization in the different