I. INTRODUCTION.

CONTENTS

The Rural Population__.

Need for Educating the Rural Population.......

Special Educational Needs of the Rural Population_.

The Land-Grant Institutions___

II. FEDERAL AID FOR RESIDENT INSTRUCTION_

Legislation___

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Enrollments, Degrees, Size of Staffs, and Expenditures -

Land-Grant Legislation and Higher Education for Negroes_

III. EXPERIMENT STATIONS_

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Federal Legislation.....

Hatch Act_.

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Support of Research among Negroes_

IV. AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION WORK

Movements Leading to the Creation of the Extension

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V. SOME FINAL CONSIDERATIONS.

Relationship of Separate Land-Grant Colleges and State

Universities..

Matching Requirement

Extension Work in Home Economics_.

Extension and Research in the Negro Land-Grant Colleges.

Relationship of Extension to Regulatory Functions____

Variations in Federal Control.

Uniform Allotments to States.

Clarification of State and Federal Relations.

Additional Grants__

Influence of the Land-Grant College Association__.

APPENDIX A. Major Federal Legislation Concerning Land-

Grant Colleges as of October 1, 1938.

First Morrill Act___

Hatch Act_ _

Second Morrill Act__

Adams Act.__.

Nelson Amendment_.

Smith-Lever Act___

Purnell Act_.

Capper-Ketcham Act__

Bankhead-Jones Act_

APPENDIX B. Land-Grant Colleges and Universities in 1937___

APPENDIX C. Memorandum of Understanding, State College of

Agriculture and United States Department of

Agriculture

APPENDIX D. Memorandum of Understanding, American Farm

Bureau Federation and United States Depart-

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RESEARCH STAFF AND CONSULTANTS OF THE COMMITTEE.

PUBLICATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE

LIST OF TABLES

1. Amount of Federal funds received by the 69 land-grant in-

stitutions through the First Morrill Act of 1862 and the

supplementary Morrill acts administered through the De-

partment of the Interior, by fiscal year, 1873 to 1940----

2. Total number of staff members of 69 land-grant institutions,

by branch of service, 1933-34 and 1936-37 __.

3. Percentage Negro population was of total population, 1930,

and percentage of total State allotments from various

Federal funds allocated to Negro land-grant colleges in

17 Southern States, fiscal year ended June 30, 1936_----

4. Experiment station income, by source and by fiscal year,

1888 to 1937___

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5. Federal funds available to States for cooperative extension

work and State offsets under the Smith-Lever Act, by fiscal

year, 1916 to 1920___.

6. Number, attendance, and expenditures of farmers' institutes

in the United States in selected years, 1902 to 1914__.

7. Summary of allotments of Federal funds for extension work

in agriculture and home economics, fiscal year ended

June 30, 1937_ _ _

8. Federal appropriations and expenditures from Federal

funds and from State, county, and local funds for cooper-

ative extension work in all States, Alaska, Hawaii, and

Puerto Rico, by fiscal year, 1915 to 1936..

9. Total funds allotted for cooperative extension work and

amounts derived from Federal funds and from sources

within the States, by State, fiscal year ended June 30,

1937__

10. Percentage of funds for cooperative extension work allotted

to counties and to colleges, by purpose of expenditure and

by State, fiscal year ended June 30, 1937__

11. Percentage distribution of funds for cooperative extension

work, by source and by State, fiscal year ended June 30,

1937-

12. Lowest, average, and highest salaries paid cooperative ex-

tension workers, December 31, 1936.

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13. Number of farm operators, 1935, number of county agents,

June 30, 1937, and number of operators per agent, in 16

Southern States, by race..

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14. Estimated expenditures for Negro extension work in agri-

culture and home economics in 16 Southern States, by

fiscal year, 1925 to 1937.

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15. Percentage of agents' and specialists' time devoted to

various projects in cooperative extension work, by year,

1928 to 1936_ _.

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16. Percentage of time devoted to junior extension work by

7,597 extension workers, by State, fiscal year ended

June 30, 1936 _ _ .

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17. Number of extension work groups other than 4-H clubs,

and number of rural persons 16 years of age and older

participating, by State, 1936_-

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LIST OF FIGURES

1. Organization chart of the Cooperative Extension Service

in Agriculture and Home Economics---

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2. Organization chart of the Extension Service, United States

Department of Agriculture.

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