The New Farm Movement

1916

A new branch of the United States department of agriculture is known as the states relation service, and dates from July 1, 1915. Its function is to represent the secretary of agriculture in his relations with the state agricultural colleges and experiment stations and to carry on the work of the department in connection with farmers co-operative demonstration work, in vestigations relating to agricultural schools, farmers' institutes, the relative utility and economy of agricultural products used for food, clothing and other purposes in the home, and the maintenance of agricultural experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii Porto Rico and Guam. The present office of experiment stations becomes a branch of the new service.