Ixxx Extension Department 



more permanent organization of women's forces throughout the State. 

 It was decided to call the organization the Home Economics Association 

 for Conservation, basing the organization on a membership plan, the 

 question of membership fee being left to the local. committees. To date 

 ten of the emergency counties have reorganized under the new plan, and 

 these are now working in the membership campaign. 



The chief lines of effort on the part of the agents have been (i) demon- 

 strations in food preservation, (2) demonstrations in the making of 

 " liberty breads," the use of sugarless recipes, and the use of potatoes, 

 (3) a campaign to increase the use of milk, (4) the organization of county 

 home economics associations for conservation, (5) the establishment of 

 community kitchens as canning centers (one county having nine suck 

 kitchens), and (6) the establishment of community sewing rooms. 



During the year 2282 demonstrations have been given, with a total 

 attendance of 87,519; 2387 lecture meetings have been held, with a total 

 attendance of 144,994; 2776 home visits have been made by the agents 

 and 7470 callers have been received at the various demonstration offices; 

 22,467 telephone calls have been answered; 23,896 letters have been 

 written and 42,216 circular letters posted; and 3064 press notices have 

 been prepared. 



Recommendations 



One of the urgent needs of the Extension Department is for more room 

 and a closer grouping of the offices. Several of the offices are crowded, 

 but this is not so serious a handicap to the work of the Department as 

 is the wide separation of the different offices. If all the offices were closely 

 grouped, it would result not only in the saving of much time by eliminat- 

 ing travel between offices several hundred feet apart, but also in bringing 

 the workers into much closer sympathy and cooperation. The storage 

 rooms and work rooms for the mailing division are neither adequate nor 

 suited to their purpose. These are conditions that cannot be remedied 

 at once, but they should be kept in mind in all future plans for improving 

 the service. 



