xvi ILLUSTRATIONS 



FACING PAOR 



The county agent's office should have a business-like appear- 

 ance. To modern business office equipment should be added 

 exhibits, pictures, maps, charts and other illustrations of 

 the work. An efficient clerk, stenographer or secretary 

 adds much to the general efficiency of the county agent's 

 office 108 



Community picnics and field days should be the occasion for 

 stimulating and encouraging the play spirit, and for em- 

 phasizing the essential unity of the people of the com- 

 munity as a group thinking and acting together in the 

 common concerns of life 126 



John H. Barron, the first county agent in the Northern and 

 Western States, and James Quinn, the first county farm 

 bureau president, on Mr. Quinn's farm at Binghamton, 

 Broome County, N. Y. The application of lime for the 

 improvement of hill pastures was one of the earliest and 

 most useful demonstrations in this territory . . . 162 



A county club leader pointing out to the club members the 

 good points of a dairy calf owned by one of their number. 

 The completion of the project, whether it be rearing a 

 dairy calf to maturity or growing a crop, together with 

 the securing and accounting for the results, is a first 

 essential to good boys' and girls' club work . . . .162 



Membership getting has not always been the most agreeable of 

 the community committeeman's jobs, but the process has 

 been a valuable educational one both with him and with 

 the members. Membership should be based primarily on 

 the local program of work and only secondarily on the 

 state and national federation programs 220 



