214 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Some of the other farm products or farm supplies for which the farm 

 bureaus and agents have assisted in forming cooperative buying and selling 

 associations are live stock, grain, feed, fruit, tile, wool, cabbage, swine, 

 and farm machinery. 



boys' and girls' clubs. 



As noted in last year's report an effort is being made to build a unified 

 agricultural program in each county through the farm bureau and to 

 coordinate the projects of the boys and girls with those of the adults. This 

 is making a much stronger program and a better organization. Most 

 of the agents devote considerable time to Club Work and when there is 

 no Country Club Leader, they assume the responsibility for the develop- 

 ment of this work. This year, they assisted in the formation of 782 

 clubs with a membership of 11,484; they also aided in carrying on the 

 different club projects. 



The work of the women is also being made an organic part of the farm 

 bureau program and organization. The county agents have recognized 

 the value of the home demonstration work and have assisted in organizing 

 it and developing the various projects connected with it. Experience in 

 building the Farm Bureau all points in the one direction of the need 

 of constructing a program where the projects of the men and the women 

 are unified and re-enforce one another. Cooperation is needed in carrying 

 on these two phases of farm bureau work if the largest degree of success 

 is to be attained. 



EXHIBITS AND FAIRS. 



The exhibit is regarded as an essential part of a complete program of 

 farm bureau work and this project has been carried on much the same as 

 outhned in previous reports, but with a growing interest and participation 

 in it by the people themselves. 



WINTER MEETINGS. 



Changes growing out of farm bureau experience are being made in 

 the character of the winter meetings. The organization and work of 

 the farm bureau committees are the chief factors in bringing about these 

 changes. The winter meeting is becoming the means for considering 

 the data collected from the various Farm Bureau projects as a basis for 

 the work of the coming season. The various committees that have been 

 conducting demonstrations or doing other work on specific projects during 

 the year become the nucleus of a new kind of winter meeting — a meeting 

 of men or women well informed on the special projects to which they have 

 given much attention and, therefore, a meeting eager for a discussion of 

 the more special problems and difficulties connected with their project 

 and not to discuss the more elementary or general phases of it. It is a 

 meeting primarily for planning another year's work in the light of the ex- 

 perience of the past; a meeting not for entertainment, but for working out 

 better methods for more highly specialized and efficient activity in carrying 

 on a particular farm enterprise, or the farm as a business unit, or some form 

 of cooperative activity. Such a meeting calls for a specialist and at such 

 a meeting the specialist finds one of his best opportunities to render 

 service. 



