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School Department Conducted M. E. G. The Film Service of the United States Department of Agriculture FOR those unacquainted with the ac- tivities of the Department of Agri- culture in circulating films which truly deserve the name "educational," at- tention is called to Department Circular 233, issued under date of August, 1922. The purpose of the Department in offer- this service is stated in the foreword: "Thousands of extension and field work- ers in agriculture and allied pursuits have found that motion pictures possess a tremendous possibility for usefulness in making common property of knowledge developed by scientific investigations of the United States Department of Agricul- ture." The library of the Department includes more than 150 subjects, each of which has been worked out by experts in the particular field concerned, and all photo- graphed by the Department's cinematog- raphers. The result in each case is .an authentic, scientifically sound presenta- tion of the subject matter from a truly educational viewpoint. The films are for the most part one or two reels in length, and cover a wide variety of subjects. For the specialist in agriculture are films listed under the Bureau of Animal Industry, Bureal of Entomology, Bureau of Plant Industry, and the Bureau of Chemistry, on such subjects as hog cholera, wool and lamb marketing, poultry farming, silo construc- tion, fighting the boll-weevil, and dozens of other subjects. Many of the Depart- ment's reels, however, are of general in- terest—as for instance reels on the mak- ing oi wool and cotton into cloth, cheese making, the raising of farm crops, the growing of dates (America's New Frui Crop) wheat harvesting, lumbering, fores - fire prevention, game protection, besides! a large group of outdoor pictures listen under "Scenery and Recreation" devotee! in general to our National Forests. As to the plan for securing the De partment films, we quote from the cir cular: "The films produced and distributed b} the United States Departmentof Agricul ture are intended primarily for the use o extension and field workers of the de partment and of officially cooperating institutions. The number of copies o these films which the department is abl« to supply is at present inadequate to mee demands from other sources. Howevei others desiring to borrow films may mak application through their county agents or other department field worker, th director of extension of their State agri cultural college, or other officially co operating agency, and the films can b\ furnished if not in use. Films are furnished free of chargJ except for transportation, which the bor rower is required to pay. The Department of Agriculture ha found that the showing of films on cir cuits makes it possible to get the maxi mum service from the pictures. It there fore favors the organization of circuit over which its films may be distributee In such circuits county agents, horn demonstration agents, club leaders, bu reau field men, or any other class of de partment or State extension workers ma; be organized and films may be route 324 0