Farm Home Demonstration Schools 



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The entire community should then be canvassed in order to interest 

 not only a few but all housekeepers. It is higlily important that there 

 should be a vigorous local chairman, who should divide the tenitory for 

 the purjjose of publicity among meml:)crs of a committee representing 

 the grange, the church, the school, and other organizations. 



On the receipt of the application blank by the department, pledge 

 cards are sent to the chairman of the local committee. These pledge 

 cards are to be signed by persons purposing to attend the school, and to be 

 returned to the department as an assurance of sufficient interest to warrant 

 the placing of the school. The form of the card is as follows : 



NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY 



THE DEPARTMENT OF HOME ECONOMICS H^ ^ 

 REGISTRATION FOR FARM HOME DEMONSTRATION SCHOOL 



Place -— 



Date, from - - -— 



to --- 191 — 



Will you be able to attend daily during the school ?...._ 



In what subjects are you especially interested? 



Name _. - 



Home address -— 



The payment of seventy-five cents, with the return of the pledge card 

 to the local chairman, entitles the member to the five lessons of the school. 

 The chairman retains all fees until the close of the school. 



If a school in agriculture is being held during the same days as is the 

 school in home econoinics, by paying an additional fee of twenty-five 

 cents, women may attend the forenoon sessions of the agricultural school, 

 which by reason of a larger teaching force, has two sessions. In this 

 case, the total fee is one dollar, instead of seventy-five cents. 



Before the school can be secured there must be a paid membership 

 of at least twenty-five, and there should be many more. The greater 

 the community interest, the more widespread and potent are the results. 

 All agencies that are interested in community affairs shotdd be asked to 

 cooperate — the church, the school, the grange, and all women's organi- 

 zations. It is a community meeting. 



Admissions for single lessons are not encouraged because the five lessons 

 form a single, unified discussion; the loss of one lesson, especially the first 

 one of the week, means difficulty in following the later lessons of the 

 series. However, persons unable to attend all the demonstrations may 

 secure single admissions at twenty-five cents each. If there are com- 



