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again next year. At least two other Avomen will also probably be 

 secured and forty or fifty institutes held. 



COUNTY OK LOCAL OKGANIZATIONS. 



Farmers' Institute organizations or committees have been organ- 

 ized in 93 counties of the State — all except Brunswick, Carteret, 

 Dare, and Gates — and in several counties like Mecklenburg, Iredell, 

 Catawba, Forsyth, Rockingham, and Rowan, where more than one 

 institute is held, there have also been formed local institute commit- 

 tees. The number of committees now organized is 102 for men and 

 21 for women. In many cases these local committees do good and 

 effective work, but too frequently they do absolutely nothing, or 

 leave all that is done to the chairman. A good chairman can do 

 much alone and can usually secure the lielp of some of his committee, 

 but when the chairman lacks interest, energy, or ability to do the 

 work required, the institute always suffers. Whereas, on the other 

 hand, when the committee is alive to the work and has a good chair- 

 man, a ffood institute is alwavs insured reaardless of season of the 

 year, weather, or location. Owing to the fact that some committee- 

 men, and especially chairmen of committees, do not seem to under- 

 stand their duties, while others are careless, the following statement 

 of the duties of county or local institute committeemen may not be 

 out of place : 



1. It is the duty of the chairman to call his committee together 

 at least two or three times during the year, to plan for the annual 

 institute by arranging program, location, date, etc., and it is the 

 duty of committeemen to attend these meetings. 



2. It is the duty of every committeeman to advertise the institute, 

 especially in his own toAvnship, by talking it up and urging all to 

 attend. This effort should continue from the close of one institute 

 to the beginning of the next. 



3. Each committeeman should promptly post or .distribute all 

 advertising matter sent him. 



4. Eacli chairman of a committee sin mi Id jjromptly answer all 

 letters written him by the State Director, regarding institute work.^ 



5. The committee should see that the hall or place of meeting is 

 in proper condition for the meeting, prior to the time of opening 

 the institute. In winter fires should be built early enough to have 

 the hall comfortable, and in summer the liall should be open and 

 clean. It should not be necessary for tlic s]X'akers to Inint u)) some 

 one to open the hall and build fires, nor to do this themselves. 



6. Every committeeman should endeavor to find some one able 

 and willing to talk instmctively at these institutes so as to reduce the 

 number of State speakers necessary, thereby making it possible to- 

 hold more institutes at the same total cost. 



