SEC. 2. That cooperative agricultural extension work shall consist of the giving of instruction and practical demonstrations in agriculture and home economics to persons not attending or resident in said colleges in the several communities, and imparting to such persons information on said subjects through field demonstrations, publications, and otherwise, and this work shall be carried on in such manner as may be mutually agreed upon by the Secretary of Agriculture and the State agricultural college or colleges receiving the benefits of this Act.

The extension work will deal not only with agricultural production but also with economic problems, including marketing and cooperative associations and with the interests of the farm home and the rural community. The extension service, including the county agent, is as much interested in the marketing, distribution and utilization of farm products as it is in production, and it may properly give information and help in all of these lines.

The extension service in each State is under the administrative management of an Extension Director, who is the joint representative of the College and the Department. Under the director are the State agents or leaders, the extension specialists and the county agricultural agents, home demonstration agents and club agents or leaders. The extension directors are authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with county officials and farm bureaus or like organizations with reference to financial support for the maintenance of extension work in the county and the plans for the use of the cooperative funds in the extension work within the county.

BASIS OF COOPERATION

The general basis of cooperation between the county farm bureau and the Extension Service will be as follows:

The County Agricultural Agents, Home Demonstration Agents and Club Agents cooperatively employed will be members of the extension service of the State agricultural college and under the administrative direction of the Extension Director, and will carry on such lines of extension work as may be mutually agreed upon by representatives of the agricultural college and the farm bureaus or other like organizations. Since these county extension agents are part of a public service as defined in the Smith-Lever Act, and receive some part of their salary from public funds, they are to perform service for the benefit of all the farming people of the county whether members of the farm bureaus or not, and are to confine their activities to such as are appropriate for public officials to perform under the terms of the Smith-Lever Act. The county agents will aid the farming people in a broad way with reference to problems of production, marketing and formation of farm bureaus and other cooperative organizations, but will not themselves organize farm bureaus or similar organizations, conduct membership campaigns, solicit memberships, receive dues, handle farm bureau funds, edit and manage the farm bureau publications, manage the business of the farm bureau, engage in commercial activities or take

part in other farm bureau activities which are outside their duties as extension agents.

The county agents and other extension agents will cooperate with the farm bureaus or other like organizations interested in extension work in the formulation of county and community plans of cooperative extension work. It will then be the duty of the county agents under general direction of the Extension Director to take charge of the carrying out of such plans and to cooperate with officers, committees, and members of the farm bureaus and with other organizations and residents of the county in the prompt and efficient execution of these plans.

TERMINOLOGY

In order to do away as far as possible with the confusion now existing in the public mind regarding the organization and work of the farm bureau as related to the county agents and the extension service generally, it is recommended that hereafter in publications and otherwise the cooperative extension service shall be differentiated from the farm bureau work. That is, the farm bureau will have its relations with the extension service (consisting of the county agents, extension committees, demonstrations, etc.) as one of its departments. Other departments might be a publicity department which would prepare and publish a periodical (Farm Bureau News), press articles and notices, announcements of meetings, etc., department of relations with marketing and other cooperative associations, etc.

The work which centers in the county agents would be designated as the Cooperative Extension Service and the miscellaneous enterprises of the farm bureau, as farm bureau work.

FARM BUREAU FEDERATION

The county farm bureaus have their State and national (American) Farm Bureau Federations, which are working on economic and legislative matters and are also promoting the extension service and agricultural education and research. These federations, are however, not directly connected with the extension service and do not enter into cooperative agreements with the State colleges and the Department of Agriculture involving the use of federation funds and the employment of extension agents, and the college and the Department are not responsible for the activities of the farm bureau federations. There is, however, much advisory consultation between representatives of the farm bureau federations and officers of the colleges and the Department with reference to plans for advancing the agricultural interests of the States and the Nation.

Signed

President, American Farm Bureau Federation.

Director, State Relations Service.

APRIL 22, 1921.

RESEARCH STAFF AND CONSULTANTS

This list gives the names of the various consultants and members of the research staff of the Advisory Committee on Education. The names starred are those of major consultants of the Committee, of members of the staff who were responsible for the supervision of major staff units, and of authors of studies published by the Committee.

FLOYD W. REEVES, Director of Studies

PAUL T. DAVID, Assistant Director of Studies
LAVERNE BURCHFIELD, Editor

Alexander, Fred M.

Alves, Henry F. Asserson, Grace P. Baer, Joseph A. Bagley, William C. Bahr, Clarence L. *Bair, Frederick H. Barrett, Edwin J. Benjamin, Hazel C. *Bentley, Jerome H. Blander, Margaret *Blauch, Lloyd E. *Bradford, Minnie B. Bridgman, Ralph P. *Broach, Howell H. *Brown, Clara M. Butler, Clare W. *Campbell, Doak S. Carpenter, O. F. *Cocking, Walter D. *Cooper, Thomas P. Cornell, Francis G. Coyle, David Cushman *Crawford Finla G.

Daoust, Joseph H. *Davis, Anne

Dickerman, Watson B.

DuBois, Marion

*Edwards, Newton

Elicker, Paul E.

Emerson, Lynn A.

Exton, Elaine

Fairbanks, Mary H.
Foster, Jeannette H.
*Frederic, Katherine A.
Gerberich, Joseph R.
*Gilmore, Charles H.
Gold, Norman L.
Grace, Alonzo G.
Groves, Harold M.
*Hamilton, Robert R.

Harrison, Mary Roberts

*Harvey, Oswald L.

Hausrath, Alfred H.
*Heer, Clarence
*Holland, Kenneth
Houle, Cyril O.
*Hughes, Raymond M.

Irby, Nolen M.
*Iversen, William L.

*Joeckel, Carleton B.

*Johnson, Palmer O.
*Jordan, Floyd
*Judd, Charles H.

Kauffman, Roma Kaye
Koos, Leonard V.
*Lancelot, William H.

Lane, Jessie A.

*Lawler, Eugene S.
Lee, Charles A.

Lippitt, Marian B.
Little, Harry A.

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