...citizens. The Congressional charge to Cooperative Extension at 1862 and 1890 Colleges and Tuskegee is to aid in diffusing among the people of the United...and practical information on subjects relating to the needs of the people. An extension of that charge now includes other countries. The Federal Government...

...AVAILABLE UNDER THE SMITH-LEVER ACT. THE BASIC FUNCTION OF THE TEXAS AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICE IS " TO AID IN DIFFUSING AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED...ECONOMICS, AND TO ENCOURAGE THE APPLICATION OF THE SAME ". LEGISLATIVE ACTION ALSO PROVIDED FOR COOPERATIVE SUPPORT OF THE TEXAS AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICE...

...reached from Washington down to the county level, where it was charged, under the Smith-Lever Act, with "diffusing among the people of the United States useful...subjects relating to agriculture and home economics." Instead of becoming a Methodist minister, he had swerved only slightly from parental urgings in becoming...

...sixty-two, and of Acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture Sec. 1. In order to aid in diffusing among the people of the...practical information on subjects relating to agriculture, uses of solar energy with respect to agriculture, home economics, and rural energy, and to encourage...

...the expressed needs of people. A portion of its purpose, as set forth in this legislation, is ". . . to aid in diffusing among the people of the United...to agriculture and home economics, and to encourage application of the same . . ." This purpose has been modified in the legislation over time, but the...

...legislation directed USDA to undertake cooperative extension work with State and local agriculture agencies "in order to aid in diffusing among the people of...subjects relating to agriculture and home economics..." A 1953 amendment specified nutrition as well as agriculture and home economics as such information...

...legislation directed USDA to undertake cooperative extension work with State and local agriculture agencies "in order to aid in diffusing among the people of...subjects relating to agriculture and home economics..." A 1953 amendment specified nutrition as well as agriculture and home economics as such information...

...of Acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture SEC. 1. [7 USC 341] In order to aid in diffusing among the people of the...practical information on subjects relating to agriculture, uses of solar energy with respect to agriculture, home economics, and rural energy, and to encourage...

...colleges for agricultural extension work; it was intended to "aid in diffusing among the people of the US useful and practical information on subjects relating...economics and to encourage the application of the same."15 Consequently, many, but not all, land grant colleges began to offer home economics courses...

...in Wisconsin. The report explicitly reaffirmed the original mandate of the federal Smith-Lever Act, "to aid in diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on the subjects relating to agriculture and home economics, and to encourage the application of the same."...