involving 61 participants and 45 nonparticipants below 60 years

 of age and with less than $10,000 annual sales after 4 years of

 operation showed that: (1) over two-thirds of the participants had

 realized increased farm sales (in current dollars); (2) 60 percent

 used credit as compared to only 35 percent of the nonparticipants

 surveyed; and (3) the number of participants indicating Extension

 as an important source of information increased. Missouri's 1862

 and 1890 land-grant institutions both participate in the Missouri

 Small Farm Family Program which now involves 49 program assistants

 in 33 counties working with 1,835 small-scale farm families.

 Minnesota The results of a pilot Small Farm Project with program

 assistants funded by the Governor's Rural Development Council in

 1975 was so impressive the State Legislature was persuaded to

 provide $75,000 annual funding. The Extension Service is super-

 vising five program assistants to work with 150 families in

 three counties.

o Study of Fourteen States' Special Efforts:

 Small farms are concentrated in the South. According to the 1974

 Census of Agriculture, over 50 percent of the Nation's farms with

 annual sales of less than $5,000 and 47 percent of those with sales

 of $5,000 $9,000, are located within the Southern States. In their

 regular Extension work, 10 of the 13 states have specific objectives

 concerning small farms. Several states also conduct special small

 farms programs.