Rural women are likewise assisted in tile problems of the home.
They are made acquainted with time and labor-saving devices, with
simpler and easier methods of work, with new knowledge of foods, with
new ideas about borne furnishing, with practical methods of home sew-
ing and millinery construction, and with such other information as
tends to make rural home life attractive and satisfying,

For rural boys and girls, tile Extension Service provides a valuable
type of instruction in agriculture and home economics through its 4-H
Club work. The instruction is incident to actual demonstrations con-
ducted by the boys and girls themselves. These demonstrations, under
supervision of the county and home demonstration agents, are the best
possible means of imparting to youthful minds valuable information in
crop and livestock production and in the household arts. The 4-H Club
work, moreover, affords rural boys and girls a very real opportunity to
develop the qualities of self-confidence, perseverance, and leadership.

The Extension Service works in accord with all other brandies of
tire University of Maryland and with all agencies of the United States
Department of Agriculture, it co-operates with all farm and community
organizations in the State which have as their major object the im-
provement of agriculture and rural life; and it aids in every way possi-
ble in making effective the regulatory work and other measures insti-
tuted by the State Board of Agriculture.

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.

The agricultural work of the University naturally comprises three
fields: research, instruction, and extension. The Agricultural Experi-
ment Station is the research agency of the University, which has for its
purpose the increase of knowledge relating to agriculture, primarily for
the direct benefit of the farmer, it is also the real source of agricul-
tural information for use in the classroom and for demonstrations in
the field.

The Experiment Station work is supported by both State and Fed-
eral appropriations. The Hatch Act, paused by Congress in 1887, appro-
priates $15,000 annually; the Adams Act, passed in 1906, provides
$13,000 annually; and the Purnell Act, passed in 1925, provides $60,000
annually. The State appropriation for 1330 is $74,000.

The objects, purposes, and work of the Experiment Stations as set
forth by these acts are as follows:

"That it shall be the object and duty of said Experiment Stations to
conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of
plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject
with the remedies for the same: the chemical composition of useful
plants at their different stages of growth; the comparative advantages
of rotative cropping as pursued under a varying series of crops; the
capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils
and water; the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial,
with experiments designed to test their comparative effects on crops of
different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants;
the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for
domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the
production of butter and cheese; and such other researches or experi-
ments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States