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at the township meeting". Following this meeting each township then 

 decided definitely upon one or more |)rojects. 



Each local leader took some responsibility in planning this work, 

 as well as in collecting reports and tabnlating results. Where the work he- 

 came more than she could handle, project leaders were chosen to assist 

 with the different projects. Very definite results were shown as to 

 what can be accomplished in both the dress form and millinery work 

 done in this county. Six meetings were held for training local leaders. 

 Each leader returned to her home community and presented the work. 

 As a result of this, :U1 dress forms have been made and are continuing 

 to be made, but the agent has been relieved of all responsibility. 



In millinery five training meetings were held, and as a result 280 hats 

 were reported as made and 1) remade with an estimated saving of $1)51.78. 



Each county has at least one county wide meeting during the year 

 at' which time results of work accom}»lished are presented by local lead- 

 er or some individual who has been carrying on the work. Occasionally 

 this is made into an Achievement Day and work is displayed which has 

 been done by the women themselves, as renuxleling hats, dresses, fireless 

 cookers, etc. In some of the counties in the upper jjeninsula without home 

 demonstration agents, Housewives' ronferences were held which were , 

 most successful. 



Because so very little planned work was being done in the counties 

 without home demonstration agents excepting a talk now or then, a 

 new plan has been worked out and has been jnit into efi'ect since Septem- 

 ber. It is as follows: 



A letter was sent to each county agricultural agent stating the type 

 of work to be presented from the home (hMnonstration department. If 

 he were interested in including the home as a part of his program, he 

 with a committee of women, selected the subject they preferred. Then 

 the Specialist presenting this particular subject meets with two dif- 

 ferent communities in the county once a nnnith for a series of five months, 

 thus giving the women of these communities some really intensive work 

 on one subject. If there has been sufficient publicity and enough inter- 

 est aroused in other communities, at the end of the series a meeting for 

 training local leaders will be started, making it jxissilde to spread the 

 work to all parts of the county. Our ambition is, of course, to eventually 

 interest them in home demonstration work. At the present time about 

 ;J0 counties have asked f<jr the work and several counties are talking 

 of the possibility of a home demonstration agent just as soon as there 

 is some improvement in the financial situation. 



SUPERVISORY PROGRAM. 



Strengthening the organization in the home demonstration agent coun- 

 ties and helping the women to see the necessity for training local lead- 

 ers to assist in carrying one some of the projects has been the primary 

 job of the State Leader throughout the year. This has been accom- 

 plished principally at county-wide meetings. Each county has an an- 

 nual meeting, some semi-annual, and quarterly. 



Direct supervision of the home demonstration agent is always neces- 

 sary to a certain extent. This has been done by office visits at which 

 time conditions, policies and methods have been discussed. 



