Extension and Research.
Agriculture and Home Economics.

The Extension Service is that branch of the University of Maryland,
established by Federal and State law, which is designed to assist the
farmer and his family in promoting the prosperity and welfare of agri-
culture and rural life. Its work is conducted in co-operation with the
United States Department of Agriculture.

The Extension Service is represented in each county of the State by
a county agent and in all but a few counties by a home demonstration
agent. Through these agents and its staff of specialists, the Extension
Service comes into intimate contact with rural people and with the
problems of the farm and home.

Practically every phase of agriculture and rural home life comes
within the scope of the work undertaken by the Extension Service.
Farmers are supplied with details of crop and livestock production, and
with instructions for controlling disease and insect pests; they are en-
couraged and aided in organized effort, helped with marketing problems,
and in every way possible assisted in improving economic conditions on
the farm.

Rural women are likewise assisted in the 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 home 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, the 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 demonstrated 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 branches of
the 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.