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FARM BUREAU ORGANIZATION DATA, MAY 1, 1919 



111 the development of the farm bureau program and organization, the 

 district conferences of farm bureau officers or other representatives, 

 and the county agents have been important factors. The following con- 

 ferences have been held: 

 Marketing : 



a. Kalamazoo, July 23, 1918. 



b. Howell, August 13, 1918. 



c. Saginaw, August 14, 1918. 



Program of Work and Study of Experiment Station Results: 



a. Chatham, August 8, 1918. 

 The County Executive Committee, and the Farm Bureau Program 

 of Work for 1919: 



a. Cadillac, November 25, 26, 27, 1918. 



b. Jackson, December 16 and 17, 1918. 

 State Farm Bureau Organization: 



a. Michigan Agricultural College, February 6 and 7, 1919. 

 Methods of carrying out projects for definite results, and relation of 

 Farm Bureau to special agricultural associations: 



a. Petoskey, March 7, 1919. 



b. Big Rapids, March 11 and 12, 1919. 



c. Kalamazoo, March 13, 1919. 



d. Saginaw, March 18, 1919. 



e. Michigan Agricultural College, March 20 and 21, 1919. 



The Community Organization and Program; also plans for grass- 

 hopper control. (For agents of Upper Peninsula and northern district of 

 Lower Peninsula.) : 



a. Kalkaska, May 6 and 7, 1919. 



The Community Organization and Program: 



a. Grand Rapids, May 8, 1919. 



b. Flint, May 13, 1919. 



As will be seen from the subjects discussed at the above conferences, 

 the time was given largely to questions of the farm bureau program ancl 

 organization. In addition to these questions, the marketing, potato, 

 pedigreed seed, farm management, grasshopper, and sheep projects have 

 been given special attention. A new feature of these conferences has been 

 the attendance of farm bureau officers or other representatives from the 

 County Farm Bureau. These representatives have taken an active part 

 in the discussion and the conferences have been of much greater value 

 because of their participation. 



SPECIAL AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATIONS. 



The Farm Bureau is proving to be the central agricultural organi- 

 zation of the county through which interest in special agricultural projects 

 is discovered or developed. In the beginning this interest may be entirely 

 unorganized, but through farm visits by the agent, demonstrations or 

 county or community meetings of the people it becomes represented on 

 the county program or on community programs by committees; plans for 

 the development of the project are then outlined, and with the growth of 



