872 ANNUAL, EEPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



the Avork was $17,156,232, and the saving $2,834,067, or about 16 per 

 cent. 



HOME DEMONSTRATION WORK AND GIRLS' CLUB WORK. 



The home demonstration work was organized for the purpose of 

 giving the same service for women and girls on the farm which the 

 coimty agent performs for the men and boj'S. It is organized as a 

 definite part of the State extension service, and represents the 

 cooperative effort of the State agricultural college and the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, and counties and communities. 

 In the majority of the States in the South the home demonstration 

 division of the extension service carries the entire extension work 

 for women and girls. The work is organized on much the same 

 basis in all the States. There is a woman in charge of the work in 

 every State. In Virginia. Tennessee, North Carolina, South Caro- 

 lina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, 

 and Arkansas she is practically an assistant director, responsible to 

 the director of extension, and in charge of the home demonstration 

 work for women and girls. 



Organization has been moving along rapidly. All extension 

 agents recognize that an organization in the community, represent- 

 ing all tlie activities, is the ideal organization. The problem of 

 county organization for extension work is discussed under the county 

 agents' work (p. 367). The home demonstration work has been grad- 

 ually fitted into the organization. In many counties either a women's 

 section of the county agricultural council has been organized or a 

 women's advisory committee has been established. In all cases the 

 work is founded on community effort. The home demonstration 

 • work is organized on the basis of clubs of women and girls, often, 

 though not alwaj^s. representing a community organization. 



The Southern States had last year 6,391 clubs of rural women, 

 W'ith a regular enrollment of 325,229 and an emergencv enrollment 

 of 1,518,746 women; 9,028 girls' clubs, with a regular membership 

 of 146,102 and an emergency enrollment of 759,373; 1,563 clubs for 

 rural negro women, with a membership of 37,913; and 1,822 clubs 

 for negro girls, with a membership of 50,995. There was an emer- 

 gency enrolhnent of negro women and girls in these clubs of 247,143, 

 of which about one-third were girls and two-thirds women. In 

 addition to these, there were 1,179 organized communities of city 

 and town women in the urban work, with a regular membership 

 of 119,218, and an urban enrollment among negro women in cities 

 and towns of 224 clubs with a membership of 1.035. In addition 

 to these, there were 2.751 poultrj^ clubs of white women and girls, 

 w'ith a membership of 63.481, and there were 13.434 negro women 

 and girls taking poultry work. This makes a grand total of 23,096 

 regular clubs of Avomen and girls. The total regular and emergency 

 enrollment was 3,283,669. A little over 2,000.000 of these are women 

 and a little over 1.000,000 are girls. This represents the total number 

 of people enrolled but does not represent the total number of per- 

 sons reached, as it does not include those in attendance upon lectures, 

 extension meetings, demonstrations, exhibits, etc., who Avere not 

 enrolled in some club. 



Such a large enterprise naturally resulted in many interesting and 

 constructive pieces of organization work. In all of them the home 



