Examines the events leading up to the passage of the Smith-Lever Act. Reviews the formalization of early extension activities and relates the establishment of a formal relationship between federal, state, and county governments and the university to the creation of the Cooperative Extension Service. (Author/SK)

This publication is a source of basic information about the history and current workings of the land-grant university system. The first section briefly describes the nature of land grant universities as institutions that have been designated by state legislatures or Congress to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890. Their…