The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-09-05
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION DIVISION
Essential and Inseparable Part Of Agriculture
College of Idaho University.
By A. H. Upham. Pres, Idaho State University

performed in spirit of the friendliest
cooperation, it is particularly neceS-
sary that there should be close and
/ friendly contact between the investi-
cations made in agricultural expert
ment stations of state and the in
formation and advice, much of it
localized to fit particular conditions,
impaired to the farmers through the
extension workers. Together with the
direct instruction to agricultural stu
dents on the college campus, these all
are aimed at the improvement of
agricultural conditions throughout the
state and necessarily are confined to
the same problems. What the expert
ment stations discover the extension
staff and the resident faculty impart
by precept and demonstration. This
is insisted upon year after year by
the officials of the United States de-
partment of agriculture. Many col
leges, indeed, require that their ex-
tension specialists share offices on
the campus with the experiment sta
ton workers in their particular fields.
All the states of the Union, with
two exceptions, have the offices of
the extension division on the campus
of the agricultural college or state
university. These exceptions are Ar
kansas and Idaho Even states like
Washington and Utah, with agricul-
tural colleges located only "a few
miles from the border, have still
maintained this practice, but in Ar
kansas and Idaho it was felt that
geographical and travel conditions
were so unusual that better service
could be given by separate locations
for the extension headquarters.
Shortly after these offices were estab-
lished came the war, tending as it
did to repress somewhat the activi-
ties on college campuses and even in
experiment stations, but speeding up
and expanding the labors of the ex-
tension workers in an organized eff
fort to increase and improve produc-
ton. The officials at Washington
simplified their operations by deal
ing directly and only with the direc-
tor of extension The natural result
of the war years, even where extern
sion and college were housed to-
gether, was to draw them farther and
farther apart.
Assume Unity of Purpose
In Idaho, while the state board of
education were opposed to removing
the Boise office to the university
campus, they felt in short time that
some step must be taken to acquire
unity of purpose and action in all
phases of agricultural work On
January IL, 1918, shortly after the
promotion of Dean Iddings to be dean
of the college of agriculture, the
board enacted these resolutions:
THAT Professor e. j. Iddings, now
dean Of the college of agriculture, be
appointed dean of agriculture in
charge of the college of agriculture,
the experiment station and the agri-
cultural extension division
That the college of agriculture of
the University of Idaho shall consist
of the college of instruction, the ex-
pertinent stations and the department
of extension"
At that time Director Jones of the
experiment stations and Director Flu
harty of the extension divisions were
continued in their respective posi-
tons under the supervision of Dean
Iddings. Later, upon the retirement