New facilities for 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 for the Improvement of Teachers in Service. This new aid comes to all states alike from the federal government. Conditions were ripe in Ohio for making immediate use of this new aid, and the way in which it was used is set forth in the following paragraphs. The "Nelson Amendment" (34 Stat. L. 1381), approved March 4, I907, and effective for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, provided for increasing, at the rate of five thousand dollars a year for five years, the funds appropriated by the federal government to the several states and territories for the support of the colleges of agriculture. A proviso in this act makes it permissible for the land-grant colleges to devote a part of this twenty-five-thousanddollar increase "for providing courses for the special preparation of instructors for 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 for 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: