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the fall and winter is usually considered sufficiently often. If it is not 

 advisable to meet every fortnight in spring and summer, monthly meet- 

 ings are suggested. vStudy clubs hold their meetings in churches, grange 

 halls, and at the homes of the members. The programs should be planned 

 carefully several weeks in advance, and the leaders should be selected and 

 held responsible for the success of the meetings. Reading course lessons 

 should be obtained by the secretary of the club and distributed to the 

 members at least one week in advance of a meeting, so that the members 

 may be prepared for a general discussion, which should follow the open- 

 ing talk given by the leader. The meetings should proceed under a definite 

 order of business. 



Each study club should first become fully informed as to the material 

 available in the two reading courses. The reading course for the farm 

 discusses farm practices and important rural problems. The reading 

 course for the farm home takes up such household subjects as sanitation, 

 foods, household management, and household furnishing. If the study 

 club is composed of men, reading course lessons should be selected that 

 are related to local agricultural conditions, and deal with operations in 

 progress at the time of year in which they are being discussed. Valuable 

 suggestions for a club composed of women will be found in Cornell Study 

 Clubs, Cornell Reading Course for the Farm Home, Vol. I, No. 13. A 

 number of Cornell study clubs are promoting very successfully the study 

 of the two reading courses, and are reaching both the men and the women 

 of the community. Some of the clubs discuss farm subjects and farm 

 home subjects on the same program; others divide into two groups for 

 separate discussions, and hold the remainder of the program in common. 

 If a club desires to undertake this more general organization, it may prove 

 mutually advantageous to men, women, and young people in many prac- 

 tical ways. Moreover, such a club may have the inspiration of a larger 

 membership and may exert a wider influence. 



Cordial cooperation in estabHshing study clubs may be obtained by 

 writing to the Supervisor, Reading Course for the Farm, College of Agri- 

 culture, Ithaca, New York. 



