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should be done to improve the farming and living condi- 

 tions in their home communities. 



At first it may take a good deal of discussion to bring 

 out the essential things, especially if the persons coming 

 together have not been in the habit of studying and trying 

 to analyze their problems together. There will be differ- 

 ence of opinion according to viewpoint and experience. 

 Some will have a larger vision of the possibilities of their 

 communities' development than others. A few problems 

 will stand out because they are of immediate and pressing 

 importance. Others will be so commonplace as to be almost 

 overlooked at first. But out of the discussion and consid- 

 eration, especially after a year or two of experience, will 

 usually be evolved a well-balanced program which will 

 represent real needs. 



Project Committees. The practical machinery to be 

 used in the making of county and community programs 

 usually consists of community committees, usually divided 

 into project committees according to interests. Since farm 

 bureau and county agent work are necessarily organized 

 on the county unit basis for financial and administrative 

 reasons, it is usually necessary to organize the program on 

 a county basis also. 



So county project committees representing the various 

 interests common to the county, such as market milk, fruit 

 and poultry for the men, and nutrition or clothing on the 

 part of the women, or organization, schools and health as 

 matters of common interests should be selected. When 

 these project committees, meeting in advance at convenient 

 times, have determined upon their recommendations, they 

 report either directly to the annual meeting or to the exec- 

 utive committee, or in some states to the county advisory 

 council made up of the community committees or repre- 

 sentatives of all of the communities in the county. The final 



