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These are minor, because they do not affect the profitableness of farming 

 as much as the aforementioned projects, although they may assume 

 temporary importance as limiting factors. Good examples of these are: 

 local outJDreaks of diseases and insects, such as oat smut, potato scab, 

 codling moth; and the control of weeds, such as wild mustard. Provision 

 is made for doing this and other necessary work, including office work, 

 all of which usually requires only a limited amount of time, and is known 

 as minor miscellaneous projects. 



This plan for a definite system of projects is put into efifect in the different 

 counties by arranging for a half day's or a day's conference between the 

 director or the assistant director and the local farm bureau executive 

 committee and manager. Charts showing a program of work for the 

 bureau association and sample projects are placed before the manager 

 and the committee in detail, and the whole plan fully discussed. When 

 it is understood, the committee is asked to vote as to whether or not 

 it will adopt such a plan of projects. If it votes to do so, a state-wide 

 and perhaps a regional project are then recommended by the director, 

 and the committee acts on these. By discussion and then by motion, 

 the committee and the bureau manager finally come to a decision on the 

 most important major and minor projects to be undertaken in the county 

 during the year. These are formally voted on and are later drawn up 

 by the bureau manager When tic whole system of projects has been 

 outlined for a county, it is submitted to the state director for final approval 

 and is signed by him and by the president of the farm bureau association. 



Assistance in applying projects 



At the committee meetings already mentioned and at subsequent 

 meetings and conferences with the managers, definite plans and schedules 

 are drawn for carrying out the project plan of work. In doing this, 

 the director and assistant director make suggestions based on experience 

 gained in other counties and on what after full discussion seems to be 

 the most practical method of procedure. 



The central office also renders assistance in arranging for College and 

 Federal cooperation and facilities in carrying out these projects. An 

 effort is being made to so correlate the projects of extension workers in 

 the College of Agriculture with the projects in the different counties that 

 concerted effort may be brought to bear on important local problems. 



Information 



There are several methods of furnishing information to the counties, 

 in addition to personal visits and addresses as already noted. These are 

 chiefly the Farm Bureau Monthly, circular letters, and printed circulars 

 and bulletins. 



The publication of the Farm Bureau Monthly was begun in April, 1914. 

 Nine issues have been distributed with a total circulation of about 7500. 

 This monthly goes to all officers, managers, and advisory council- 

 men of all the farm bureaus. Its object, in addition to furnishing in- 

 formation about the work in other counties, is to develop local responsi- 

 bility for the work, an esprit de corps, and a general interest in this great 

 movement. 



