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Show DEPARTMENT OF .AGRICULTURE America's department of agriculture agricul-ture is undoubtedly the greatest practical and scientific organization in the world. Its total annual budget bud-get of $46,000,000 has been increased increas-ed during the last four years more than 72 per cent. It has a staff 0" 18,000, including a large number of highly trained experts, and alongside along-side of it stand the unique land-grant land-grant colleges, which are without example ex-ample elsewhere, and the sixty-nine states and federal experiment stations. sta-tions. These colleges and experiment experi-ment stations have a total endowment endow-ment of plant and equipment ot $172,000,000, with 10,271 teachers a resident student body of 125,000, and a vast additional number receiving receiv-ing instructions at their homes. County agents, Joint officers of the department of agriculture and of the colleges, are everywhere co-operating with the farmers and assisting assist-ing them. The number of extension workers under the recent emergency legislation has grown to 5500 men and women working regularly In the various communities and taking to the farmer the latest scientific and practical information. |