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properly bonded, is certified to the State Commissioner of Agriculture, 

 who assigns to the county State money at the rale of S50 monthly. The 

 farm bureau association through its executive committee then recommends 

 from several candidates well trained in the science and practice of farming, 

 suggested by the director or otherwise, one to be manager of the local 

 farm bureau. If the director approves of the person recommended, he 

 then recommends this manager to be appointed a collaborator in the United 

 States Department of Agriculture at a salary of $50 monthly, which if 

 there is no reasonable objection, is done. The farm bureau manager has 

 headquarters at a convenient point within the county. 



Each manager cooperates closely with local organizations, such as 

 granges and farmers' clubs, wherever these exist (where they do not he 

 may organize a local group for this purpose), and with individuals in 

 each commvmity known as local councilmcn for the following jjurposc: 



1. To unite existing local agricultural forces and to organize ncv/ lines 

 of effort. 



2. To exercise and to develop local leadership in rural affairs in each 

 community. 



3. To find out, arrange, and make available to the public important 

 facts about local agriculture, farm practice, and farm management. 



4. To conduct concrete and convincing tests and demonstrations to 

 show the importance and value of certain farm- practices, methods, and 

 principles of management, and to point out their local application. 



5. As the joint representatives of the State College of Agriculture 

 and the Agricultural Experiment Station and of the State and Federal 

 Departments of Agriculture to coordinate and apply the work of these 

 and other agricultural institutions locally, as well as to act as a local 

 headquarters for agricultural information. 



In order to carry out these pur^DOses farmers and members of their 

 families are met indi\'idually and in groups in fields, bams, creameries, 

 schools, homes, and elsewhere. 



The functions of the central office, representing the above institutions, 

 may be classified as follows: 



1. To carry on the supervisory, the administrative, and the clerical 

 work necessary to properly execute the provisions of the State and Federal 

 laws Under which the work is carried on. 



2. To assist in organizing farm bureaus in new counties. 



3. To draw up and put into effect state-wide and regional subprojects 

 covering proposed work. 



4. To assist and ad\nse county fami bureau managers to carry out 

 these projects. 



5. To acquire, arrange, and distribute technical and popular infor- 

 mation relative to the work. 



6. To establish and to maintain satisfactory and desirable cooperative 

 relationships with other related agencies. 



7. To investigate the organization, the methods of work, and the admin- 

 istration of the local farm bureaus for the piu-pose of determining the most 

 effective ones. 



In carr^-ing out these purposes, the State director and his assistants 

 keep in close touch with the local farm bureau managers, officers, and 



