New facilities extension teaching have been made possible since the appearance of Bulletin No. 3, 19II, of the United States Bureau of Education, by Professor William Carl Ruediger, entitled, Agencies the Improvement of Teachers in Service. This new aid comes to all states alike from the federal government. Conditions were ripe in Ohio making immediate use of this new aid, and the way in which it was used is set forth in the following paragraphs. The Amendment (34 Stat. L. 1381), approved March 4, I907, and effective the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, provided increasing, at the rate of five thousand dollars a year five years, the funds appropriated by the federal government to the several states and territories the support of the colleges of agriculture. A proviso in this act makes it permissible the land-grant colleges to devote a part of this twenty-five-thousanddollar increase for providing courses the special preparation of instructors teaching the elements of agriculture and the mechanic arts. Until recently the funds derived from this source were permitted to be used by a land-grant college the purpose stated on the campus only. On November 2, 191I, the Attorney-General of the United States promulgated the following rulings in reference to the use of the Nelson fund: