ELEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART XI 661 



CONSTITUTION FOR COUNTY FARMERS' INSTITUTE FOR YOUNG 



PEOPLE. 



Article I. — Name. 



Section 1. The name of this organization shall be the -—Farmers' 



Institute for Young People. 



Article II. — Objects. 



Section 1. The object of this institute shall be to assist and encourage 

 useful education among young people respecting life on the farm and in 

 the home; to develop the agricultural resources of the county by means of 

 farmers' institutes especially adapted to young people between the ages of 

 14 and 18; to cooperate with the county and state farmers' institute or- 

 ganizations; to teach, by lectures, demonstrations, and other means, better 

 methods in general farming, stock raising, dairying, fruit culture, and 

 other branches of agricultural industry, including domestic science and 

 home economics; to interest young people in country life; and in general 

 to promote the moral, intellectual, social, and material welfare, of the com- 

 munity. 



Article III.— Membership. 



Section 1. Any resident of the county between the ages of 14 and 18 

 may become a member of this institute by signing the constitution and 

 meeting the conditions of the by-laws. 



Article IV. — Officers. 



Sixtiox 1. The officers of the institute shall consist of a president and 

 a secretary-treasurer, who shall also be members of the state or county 

 farmers' institute and shall be appointed by and represent these organiza- 

 tions. 



Article V. Duties of Officers. 



Section 1. It shall be the duty of the president to preside at all meet- 

 ings of the institute and to have general supervision over its work in the 

 district. 



Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the secretary-treasurer to keep a record 

 of each institute, to keep a roll of the members and the postoffice address 

 of each, and to conduct all correspondence relating to the business of the 

 institute. At the close of the institute he shall make out a detailed state- 

 ment of its expenses and send it to the local representative of the farm- 

 ers' institute of the county, and at the close of the year he shall make 

 out a similar report giving also the time, place, and duration of each in- 

 stitute, the number of sessions held, the attendance at each session, and 

 the total attendance, and shall transmit this report to the director of the 

 state farmers' institute. It shall also be the duty of the secretary-treas- 

 urer to act as librarian and to assist in obtaining bulletins and other agri- 

 cultural literature for the members. It shall further be the duty of the 

 secretary-treasurer to personally or through a committee arrange for se- 



