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tion of better nutrition and sanitary practices, home nursing, and 

 child care received particular attention. In all, 12.700 demonstra- 

 tions were conducted and 21,737 families were influenced to adopt 

 better health practices. 



COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES. 



In addition to the work with individuals and farm homes, con- 

 siderable emphasis Avas placed (hirino; the yenT on the development 

 of activities of a communit5'-wide interest. These enterDrises in- 

 clude community cannino;, dryino^, salvage shops, rest rooms, cooper- 

 ative buying and selling associations, cooperative laundries, recrea- 

 tion centers, fairs, curb markets, egg circles, and the like. All of 

 these tend to draw rural people closer together for business and social 

 jnirposes, and develop concerted action in the handling of some of 

 the larger rural problems. 



OUTLOOK. 



It is expected that home-demonstration work will continue to grow 

 on a conservative basis with the addition of home-demonstration 

 agents in a small number of counties each year. This increase will 

 no doubt become more rapid* as the prices received for agricultural 

 l)roducts rise and farmers and farmers' wives become more cheerful 

 in regard to the outlook for a more prosperous agriculture and a more 

 satisfactory rural life. 



BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUB WORK. 



On June 30, 1922, 122 State club leaders and assistant State club 

 leaders, 201 county club agents, and a majority of the 2,086 county 

 agricultural agents and of the 767 countv home demonstration agents 

 were actively engaged m carrying on extension work with juniors. 

 Supplementing the work of these cooperative employees were more 

 than 10,000 local adult leaders, who gave their services Avithout pay. 

 While the total enrollment of 490,642 shoAvs a slight decrease from 

 that of the previous year, yet 285,477 (or 58 per cent) of the boys 

 and girls completed their demonstration work in 1921. which is more 

 than in any preceding year. The total value of all products pro- 

 duced by club members was computed at $7,069,877: 20.626 club 

 groups were organized ; 140,627 club members exhibited their prod- 

 ucts at 10.220 State, county, and community fairs; 1,625 club en- 

 campments were conducted, with a total attendance of 62,969 boys 

 and girls. For the past three or four years the effort has been to 

 make the club actiA'ities conform entirely to the farm and farm- 

 home needs of the A'arious communities and coimties. The past year's 

 work has brought this objectiA^e within reach as a complete attain- 

 ment. Extension workers have giA'en special attention to those con- 

 trollable factors Avhich help to determine the quality of their demon- 

 stration. Older boys and girls, up to an age of CA-en 24 and 25, 

 are being encouraged to take part, and their additional experience has 

 raised the standard of Avork. Larger acreage and larger numbers of 

 animals or home units used in the demonstrations haA'e been adopted 

 in order to make the results more convincing. Greater volume, or 

 number of demonstrators per community, has been encouraged in 



