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The State Leader feels that a great deal has been done this past year 

 to stabilize the work. The women are more persistent in their demands 

 for the assistance from the stiite officers and for assistance in organizing 

 the county in securing the services of a home demonstration agent. 



Special attention has been given to piiblicity and articles have been 

 written for the Michigan Farmer, Lansing State Journal, and Farm 

 Bureau News Letters. Attractive posters have been made by the school 

 children in schools where the nutrition series hns been given. 



Special ■co-'Operation in nutritional work hais been given by the county 

 agents, public health and Eed Cro'ss Nurses, s-chool teachers, editors, 

 ministers, the Grange, women's clubs, and local community clubs. 



Nutrition 



Nutrition work tliis past year has been carried on through food study 

 groups, individual home demonstrations, children's clinics, nutrition 

 series, lectures, lecture-demonstrations and exhibits. 



The home demonstration agents have organized and worked with many 

 more nutrition groups than last year. The women are becoming greatly 

 interested in the scientific feeding of their families. Several of the 

 agents have worked with the children through home demonstrations. The 

 mothers of the children have closely followed the advice of the home 

 demonstration agents or State Nutrition Specialist. The work with the 

 school children has b-een a great success. The parents of the children 

 have become intensely' interested in the nutritional stories. One of the 

 countv nurses in an unorganized count}- wrote as follows of the work 

 carried on in one of the district schools : ''I found them using your nu- 

 trition stories enthusiastically, where the 'story day' was a village event, 

 long looked forward to, the mothers going whenever possible." 



Instruction has been given in the selection, preparation, and care of 

 foods, planning of meals and diet for special diseases. There have been 

 so many calls for diets for obesity that the nutrition specialist wrote a 

 circular on that particular subject for distribution. 



Eight nutrition stories were written by the nutrition specialist. Rec- 

 ord charts were prqiared and sent out with stories to the local leaders 

 or teachers. The County School Commissioner of Gladwin county stated 

 this sipring that the scholarship in the schools of that county had in- 

 creased 25%. 



Clothing 



There has been a decided change in the type of assistance rendered by 

 the Specialist. Fewer talks and demonstrations have been given before 

 groups of women, and more help has been given the home demonstration 

 agents in the presentation of subject matter and illustrative material. 

 A greater number of local leaders have been trained, and, as a result, 

 more home demonstrations have been established than ever before. 



The dress form project has been featured again this year through 

 popular demand, and has not only proven a worth while project to assist 

 the women in fitting their garments, but has been responsible for develop- 

 ing the health side of clothing work and also has helped to strengthen 

 home demonstration work in commnnity and county as well. 



There is still a demand for lecture demonstrations on selection of 



