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may better judge whether the proposals to meet them are 

 sound and wise. It is desirable also to have such a state- 

 ment of limitations constantly in mind. The remedies 

 proposed are both general and permanent and specific and 

 definite for 1921. The setting of a definite goal for the 

 year's work itself helps to realize the objectives and thus 

 makes for greater achievement. The program is appar- 

 ently fairly comprehensive and should touch the commu- 

 nity 's farming widely, since it embraces some fundamental 

 work with three important crops, three kinds of livestock, 

 and touches in a vital way the future welfare of the boys 

 and girls both in the schools and out of them. The pro- 

 gram is deficient in that it makes no provision for the 

 interests of women, a vitally important part of any com- 

 munity life, nor adequately for the broad general problems 

 of the community. Local leadership for each phase of the 

 program is fixed and this should result in larger achieve- 

 ment. This community program is correlated with the 

 programs for other communities through county project 

 committees for each important interest made up of com- 

 munity representatives especially concerned with the prob- 

 lem, into a county program, which then becomes combina- 

 tion of community programs. 



Program No. 2. Lack of definiteness, most of its items 

 being too briefly stated to bring out their real intent, is the 

 first characteristic of this Alabama program which strikes 

 one. This and the fact that many of its actual accom- 

 plishments bear little or no relation to the original plan, 

 suggest that it probably did not have sufficient considera- 

 tion in the beginning. Perhaps it was made by the county 

 agent alone without the help of committees of farmers or 

 specialists of the colleges who had really studied the prob- 

 lems. Evidently, too, the original plan did not fully meet 

 the agricultural needs of the county, or it would not have 



