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At present, there appears to be four or five counties that are deepl}' 

 interested in liavin^- a lioine demonstration agent and tlie work will he 

 centered around those counties largely for the next few months. 



CONFERENCES 



The third week of October, the Assistant State Leader spent a couple 

 of days in Gogebic county visiting Miss Wheatly, the home demonstration 

 agent. The project outlines were discussed and the various situations 

 that she is finding in her county. Several visits were made to commu- 

 nities where meetings had been scheduled for this time. 



The second Aveek of November the county agents of the upper peninsula' 

 met at the Marquette office for a two days' conference, at which time the 

 Assistant Leader was privileged to say a few words to the county men. 

 A brief discussion of the i>roject work, aims and methods of co-opera- 

 tion was presented. 



CLOTHING 



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Several communities have had their first or second meeting in the 

 clothing project which consists of a series of five lessons as outlined. 

 There are many demands being made for the millinery work botli spi-ing 

 and fall. 



NUTRITION 



The Nutrition Series is being conducted in about thirty of the rural 

 schools in counties where there are no home demonstration agents. The 

 teachers act as Leaders. 



Nutrition Project hij Muriel Hopkins. 



Beginning with October, changes in the state extension organization 

 affected the nutrition program in quite radical measure. Up to that 

 time it seemed only possible in the main to have single meetings with 

 women on Nutrition. There were three definite exceptions when a con- 

 secutive series of meetings covering from four to eight lectures or dis- 

 cussions were held, women enrolling for the course following somewhat 

 the i3lan of training classes for local leaders. At i»resent the state is 

 so divided that the Specialist is working entirely with definite groups 

 of women having a series of five all day meetings. The jdan is as follows: 



The Specialist goes to two counties each week. In each count}' she 

 istays two days, meeting one group of women each day and giving two 

 nutrition lectures — one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The 

 Specialist returns at an interval of four weeks giving two more lectures, 

 etc. The subject for the lectures or discussions are: (1) General Nutri- 

 tion Knowledge; (2) Feeding the Baby First and Second Year; (3) 

 Process of Digestion; (4) Feeding the "Pre-School Child (two to six years 

 of age) ; (5) Application of Process of Digestion to Everyday Nutrition 

 Habits; (6) Feeding the School Child (six to sixteen years of age) ; (7) 

 Corrective Diets; (8) Psychology of Adolescence; (9.) Caloric Value 

 of Foods; (10) Menu Planning. 



There has been but one Nutrition Specialist in the Department. Be- 

 ginning with November, Miss Adele Koch has come to the De])artment 



