MARYLAND MANUAL. 27

1914 its control was taken over entirely by the State. In 1916 the
General Assembly granted a new charter to the College and made it
the Maryland State College.

Under the new charter, which made the State College a university,
the institution is co-educational. Every power is granted necessary
to develop an institution of higher learning and research. This is in
full accord with the Morrill Act of the National Congress and the
subsequent acts above referred to. The charter provides that it shall
receive and administer all grants from the national government.


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 produc
tion of crops or in home-making, with the view of putting into prac
tice on the farms of the State improved methods of Agriculture and
Home Economics that have stood the test of investigation, experimen
tation, and experience. Movable schools are held in the several coun
ties. At such schools the specialists discuss phases of Agriculture and
Home Economics in which the people of the respective 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 agriculture.

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, and community exhibits 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 in
tended to make the Liberal Arts and branches of the curriculum, other
than Agriculture and Home Economics, of greater service to the people
of the State.

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