Extension and Research.
Agriculture and Home Economics.

The agricultural and home economics extension service of the Uni-
versity) in co-operation with the United States Department of Agri-
culture, carries to the people of the State through practical demon-
strations conducted by specialists of the College of Agriculture and
county agents, the results of investigations in the fields of Agricul-
ture and Home Economics. The organization consists of the adminis-
trative forces, including the director, assistant director, specialists
and clerical forces, including county agricultural demonstration
agents, and the home demonstration agents in each county and in the
chief cities of the State. The county agents and the specialists
jointly carry on practical demonstrations under the several projects
in the production of crops or in home-making, with the view of put-
ting into practice on the farms of the State improved methods of
Agriculture and Home Economics that have stood the test of investi-
gation, experimentation, and experience. Movable schools are held
in the several counties. At such schools the specialists discuss phases
of Agriculture and Home Economics in which the people of the re-
spective counties are specially interested.

The work of the Boys ' Agricultural Clubs is of special importance
from an educational point of view. The specialists in charge of these
projects, in co-operation with the county agricultural agents and the
county school officers and teachers, organize the boys of the several
communities of the county into agricultural clubs for the purpose of
teaching them by actual practice the principles underlying agricul-
ture.

The Home Economics specialists and agents organize the girls into
clubs for the purpose of instructing them in the principles underlying
canning, drying, preserving of fruits and vegetables, cooking, dress-
making and other forms of Home Economics work.

Educational value of demonstrations, farmers' meetings, movable
schools, clubs, community show is incalculable. They serve to carry
the institution to the farmer and to the home-maker.

General Extension.

This phase of the extension service of the University is conducted
in co-operation with the United States Bureau of Education and is
intended to make the Liberal Arts and other branches curriculum of
greater service to the people of the State.

Agricultural Experiment Station.

Vitally associated with the extension service is the experimental
work in agriculture.

In 1847 an act was passed making provision for a State Labora-
tory, in which the application of chemistry to agriculture was to be
undertaken. In 1858 experimentation was undertaken on the College
farm. After two or three years this work was interrupted by the
general financial distress of the time and by the Civil War. In 1888,
under the provisions of the Hatch Act of the preceding year, the
Agricultural Experiment Station was established.

This act states the object and purpose of the experiment station
ae follows: