The Brinkley argus., 1914-06-05
U. s. Government Ar : ranging to Pay Money For State Agricultural
 Extension Work

| 1ne SccrcCAry Ol ASIlCultuAe
 has written to the governors of
 all the states asking that they
 designate the college or colleg es
 to which the funds provided by
 the Smith Lever coop erative
 agricultural extension law are
 to go. This is the first step in
 putting into effect this act. ap-
 proved by the President May 8,
 which provides for the granting
 of Federal funds to the state
 agricultural colleges to aid in
 diffusing among the people use-
 full and practical information on
 subjects relating to agriculture
 and home economies and to en-
 courage the application of the
 same.
 The conditions of the act are
 that each state must duplicate
 the money above BIO, 900 a year
 appropriated to it by the Federal
 Government. The money raised
 by the state, county. college. local authority, or individual contributions from within the
 state, for the maintenance of cooperative agricultural ex-
 tension work. The governor of
 each state. in the interval until
 the legislature meets, is called upon to designate the agricultural college or colleges to which the Federal funds are to be paid.
 The act provides that each state in which an agricultural college is designated shall receive as basic fund from the Federal Government $f0.OO0 annually
 without additional appropriation from the state. The act then makes provision for additional appropriations to be distributed in the proportion which the rural population of each state bears to the total rural popula- tion of all the states. as determine by the next preceding census. To share in these additional funds. however, the state, either through state, county, college. or local funds, or from individual contributions from within the state, must duplicate the addi- tional amounts granted by the Federal Government for the maintenance of the cooperative agricultural extension work provided for in this act.
 The additional appropriations provided for in the act are as follows: $500. 0O0.00 for the fiscal year following that in which the basic appropriation first becomes available. This | $500, GOO will then be increased by $500, 900 for each succeeding | year thereafter for seven years, until the total additional sum appropriated is $4, 100, 600 This sum and the annual basic appropriation of S480, GOO will then be available each year thereafter.
 The act, after providing that pending the inauguration of the new work the farm management and farmers cooperative demon stration work shall not be dis continued, defines the uses to which the Federal moneys shall be put as follows:
 That cooperative agricultural extension work shall consist of l the giving of instruction and practical demonstrations in agriculture and home economies to persons not attending or resi- dent in said colleges in the communities. and i'm parting to such persons infor nation on said subjects through field demonstrations, publica- tions. and otherwise; and this work shall be carried on in such manners as may be mutually l agreed upon by the Secretary of Agriculture and the state agri- cultural college or colleges receiving the benefits of this act. 1
 The act provides that no ap- of Federal money shall be applied. directly or in- directly, to the purchase, preservation. or repair |