Early Efforts Extending the resources of the university to producers had begun much earlier. In January 1904, a monthly bulletin “Ranchmen’s Reminder” brought teaching and research to the ranching family. In March, a two-week short course was offered at Laramie for the ranchmen and farmers of Albany County. A second was presented the next year. Then-Governor Brooks was featured at both and expressed that the short course be put on wheels so it could be taken to all Wyoming counties. He recommended the legislature appropriate $2,000 to encourage such courses. Ranchmen then formed a committee to promote an annual short course called Farmers’ Institute. The institute, according to the History Agricultural Extension in Wyoming, was the forerunner of extension. By 1907, 38 states had agricultural extension departments and were using moveable schools, educational trains, country-life conferences, and other methods of taking colleges to rural people, states History. The buildup of an extension division in Wyoming started in 1912. A memorandum of agreement was drawn between the Bureau of Plant Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the University of Wyoming College of Agriculture, providing for “Cooperative farm management students and field demonstrations.” Acting State Leader Henry G. Knight, dean of the College of Agriculture and director of the Experiment Station, was designated Acting State Leader and directed to perfect organization of the work. A $10,000 appropriation for extension work in agriculture and home economics was made by the 1913 Wyoming Legislature. In 1914, Blanche Olin organized some of the first Wyoming Extension work in home economics. She provided recipes for preparing winter vegetables and organizing women’s clubs in the Wyoming Farm Bulletin. Included were home conveniences, like fireless cookers, and time-saving methods of canning. She resigned and married in 1915. Henrietta Kolshorn expanded the services when she was appointed State Demonstrator in Home Economics. Her programs included proper feeding of children, water in the home, school lunches, cleaning clothing, and using pressure cookers. The cookers appealed to farm and ranch women in higher altitudes where food had to be cooked longer. She established home demonstrations in which women in the community would try new methods in their own homes and report back. Food preparation and preservation were the most popular projects. They became even more important after war was declared in 1917. “All extension services were marshaled behind the “Food Will Win the War” slogan,” according to History.