in the Bureau, the catalogues and other equipment, it is still necessary to carry on the work in the locations of the former separate libraries, namely, room 247, second floor, and room 425, fourth floor of laboratory A. The reorganization of the work will undoubtedly give the Bureau better library service, but until all the work can be brought together in one convenient location and another assistant appointed it will be impossible to give the new arrangement a fair trial. Some years ago the Bureau started a card index of veterinary literature. This grew rapidly for a few years, but recently its growth has been slow on account of lack of assistance to keep it fully up to date. It now comprises approximately 180,000 cards. The possibilities for usefulness to the Bureau and to scientific workers throughout the country are large, and it is hoped that sufficient assistance will be available to revise the catalogue and to bring up to date certain subjects which have been somewhat neglected.

There was no outstanding feature in the work of the library of the Bureau of Biological Survey other than a further condensation of space available for its accommodation, about 500 books have been returned to the main library for filing, bringing down the collection to about the minimum possible. Since the Bureau is in close proximity to the main library, it being on the floor above, the library duties connected with this branch library are somewhat incidental and consume a small part of the time of the one in charge, his principal duties being editorial in character.

The libraries of the Bureau of Crop Estinates and the Bureau of Entomology both call attention to the crowded condition of their shelves, which has made it necessary for them to send more of their collections to the main library for filing. Still further and more radical reductions in their collections will be necessary unless more space is made available for these libraries.

A change in the location of the Office of Farm Management library took place during the year, the office having been moved from 224 Twelfth Street, SW., to the corner of Fourteenth and B Streets, SW. The change was beneficial, since the library now has more space and more light. There is a further advantage in the fact that the building in which it is located is next to the one in which the main library is located, thus making it more accessible.

The work of the Forest Service library was carried on along the lines of previous years and no new work was begun. The records in connection with the purchase of books for the "field libraries" of the Forest Service, that is, libraries connected with offices, stations, and laboratories of the service outside of Washington, are handled by the librarian of the Service. There are 162 of these field libraries. these, 149 are on National Forests, 6 in the District Foresters' offices, 6 at the Experiment Stations, and one at the Forest Products Laboratory, Madison. About $2,000 was spent by the Service last year for these libraries, aside from the Forest Products Laboratory, which purchases its own books.

Of

The records connected with the purchase of books and periodicals for the field libraries of other bureaus are also for the most part kept by the bureau libraries. Varying amounts are spent by each bureau for such purposes.

The outstanding feature of the Bureau of Markets library during the year was the clear differentiation of the library and the editorial

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work. On the resignation of the assistant librarian and assistant editor on September 15, it was decided to have thereafter one chief assistant for library work and one chief assistant for editorial work and to separate the lines still further as much as compatible with economy and success. At the close of the fiscal year it was decided to transfer the editorial work entirely to the Office of Market Information and to confine the work of the Bureau library more strictly to regular library work. With the change is involved the transfer of the librarian, Miss C. B. Sherman, who has had charge of the editorial work, to the Office of Market Information, where she will continue to have charge of the editorial work. As previously noted Miss Mary G. Lacy was appointed in her place as librarian of the Bureau.

There was a greater change last year in the personnel of the Bureau librarians than in any previous year. The change of the librarian of the Bureau of Markets to another branch of the Bureau and the resignations of the librarians of the States Relation Service, the Bureau of Chemistry, the Dairy Division, and the Office of Farm Management have been a severe loss to the library service of the department.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

A comparison of the receipts and expenditures of the library for the last 10 years is given in the table on the following page.

For the years 1916 to 1920 there are still many outstanding orders which, when filled, will be paid for from the appropriations for those years

An itemized statement of the amounts spent for printing and binding for the fiscal years 1919 and 1920 is given in the following table:

Expenditures for library printing and binding for the fiscal years 1919 and 1920.

REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE STATES RELATIONS

SERVICE.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,

STATES RELATIONS SERVICE, Washington, D. C., September 23, 1920.

SIR: I have the honor to present herewith the report of the States Relations Service for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1920.

Respectfully,

Hon. E. T. MEREDITH,

A. C. TRUE, Director.

Secretary of Agriculture.

INTRODUCTION.

AMOUNT AND SOURCE OF FUNDS ADMINISTERED.

The year ended June 30, 1920, was a period of transition from a war to a peace basis in the work of the States Relations Service. The war emergency fund of $6,100,000 for extension work terminated. with the fiscal year ended June 30, 1919, but the settlement of business growing out of the use of that fund was a large item in the fiscal year 1920. In lieu of the emergency fund Congress appropriated $1,500,000 to the Department of Agriculture to be expended under the terms of the extension act of May 8, 1914, and continued appropriations for farmers' cooperative demonstration work amounting to $1,396,320. The other funds appropriated for the work of the service amounted to $569,000. In addition, Federal funds amounting to $1,440,000 were appropriated for the agricultural experiment stations and $3,080,000 for cooperative extension work. State funds amounting to $4,100,000 were used as an offset to the Federal funds for extension work as required by law. This service, therefore, had administrative and advisory relations in the expenditure of $12,085,320, of which $7,985,320 were Federal funds. In addition the agricultural colleges and experiment stations used in experimental and extension enterprises $7,200,000, derived from sources within the States.

CHANGES IN PERSONNEL.

In the fiscal year 1919-20 the force carried on the rolls of the States Relations Service aggregated about 5,700, as compared with 7,000 the previous year. The number of counties having agricultural extension agents declined from over 2,400 to about 2,000 and the number having home-demonstration agents from about 1,700 to