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COMMUNITY INTERKSTS. 



A study of conditions in the individual home has broadened the 

 horizon of farm men and women, with the result that they are taking 

 a more active interest in community affairs and participating in in- 

 creasing numbers in various community enterprises, such as com- 

 munity kitchens, canning and drying centers, milk stations, salvage 

 shops, cooperative buying and selling associations, community rest 

 rooms, and recreation centers. 



SURVEY OF FARM HOME CONDITIONS. 



During the year a survey was made by home-demonstration agents 

 in the Xorthern and Western States of conditions and surroundings 

 of about 10,000 farm homes. The results of this surve}' were comi)iled 

 and studied with reference to their bearing on the attitude of farm 

 women and girls toward rural life, and are being used as a back- 

 ground for the development of home-demonstration work on the basis 

 of meeting more completel}^ the real needs of farm women, 



OUTIOOK. 



There is a slow and healthy growth in home-demonstration work, 

 with indications that during the present fiscal year a considerable 

 number of additional agents will be called for and placed in coun- 

 ties. The indications are that the programs of work for 1920-21 

 will emphasize much the same projects as those carried on in 1919-20, 

 with clothing, child feeding, household equipment, and poultry in 

 the lead. Increased attention will be given to organization, with 

 emphasis on developing community programs of work with definite 

 goals, carrying on demonstrations under supervision in the home, 

 securing more complete records of work accomplished, and training 

 county and community project leaders. Special attention will be 

 given to the further coordination of the work of specialists with that 

 of home-demonstration agents. 



BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUB WORK. 



O. H. Benson, who had had immediate charge of the boys' and 



firls' club work of the office since its inauguration in 1912, resigned 

 )ecember 15, 1919, and Avas succeeded by George E. Farrell, formerly 

 assistant in the boys' and girls' club work, but more recently secre- 

 tary of the Hampden County Improvement League of Massachu- 

 setts. 



State club leaders were employed in all of the 83 Nortliern and 

 Western States during the year. On June 30, 1920, there were G6 

 assistant State club leaders and 273 county club agents, of which 

 186 were employed on a full-time basis. 



DEMONSTRATIONS. 



The demonstrational value of boys' and girls' club work was 

 increasingly apparent during the year. There were increasing evi- 

 dences during 1919 of better live stock, greater yields per acre, and 

 pleasanter and more comfortable home life following as a direct 



