268 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



At the present time, a series of pamphlets is being prepared in co-opera- 

 tion with the Experiment Station force of the Farm Management Depart- 

 ment and other depiartmeints, for fanners and others who are seeking 

 agricnltnral opportunities and who arfe interested in concisie summaries 

 of the financial transactions and econmnics of various types of farming 

 practiced in Michigan. 



REPOKT OF HOME DEMONSTRATION WORK. 



BY LOUISE II. CAMPBELL. 



Three counties have been added to home demonstration organization 

 during the past year: Marquette, Saginaw, and Gladwin. The women in 

 Houghton, Schoolcraft and Menominee counties voted in May at their 

 county-wide home demonstration meetings to ask the Board of Supervisors 

 in October for an appropriation to reinstate the work in their respective 

 counties. The county Board of Supeiwisors in Dickinson and Chippewa 

 counties voted to discontinue the work, because of financial conditions. 

 The women of Dickinson county, however, are going before the Board of 

 , Supervisors in June, and hope to have the work reinstated by July first. 



Organization for work in liome and community 



The organization is carried on similarly to that of last year. In coun- 

 ties having home demonstration agents, each township or community has 

 a con^mittee composed of a chairman and four others. The chairman of 

 this committee is to be elected by the women of the township or community 

 and she selects the other members of the committee for her township. The 

 chair-men of the various township committees at the time of their annual 

 meeting, select three or five of their members to act as a county' executive 

 committee of home demonstration work. The chairman of this committee 

 serves in many of the counties as a member of tlie executive committee of 

 the County Farm Bureau. 



Every home demonstration agent is endeavoring to strengthen the 

 county organization work and to encourage the women to greater activity 

 in home demonstration work, and as a result the women this past year 

 have become more and more interested in local leader training meetings 

 and are electing their county, community, or local project leaders for the 

 various types of work which they have choisen for their program. The 

 Avomen have sent in more repoirts than foi'merly, and their response has 

 been most gratifying. 



Home demonstration work has been brought before the public through 

 lectures, demonstrations, exhibits, newspapers, Farm Bureau News Let- 

 ters, and the local leaders themselves. 



A state^wide conference of agents and specialists was held in January. 

 "Subject matter" was stressed at this meeting. Two district conferences 

 were held at which "methods" were discussed. Miss Grace. E. Frysinger 

 of Washington, D. C. spent a week at the College at the southern penin- 

 sula district conference. Much benefit was derived from these Conferences. 



