THE PROGRAM OF WORK 25 



USING A PROGRAM OP WORK 



"Plan your work and work your plan" is a motto worthy 

 of more emulation than it receives. A well-made program 

 of work for a county is almost half the battle for necessary 

 improvement and without it the county agent is traveling 

 an uncharted sea and likely to drift either aimlessly no- 

 where or upon the rocks of failure. But the other half of 

 the battle is to work the plan to use and apply the pro- 

 gram. 



The steps in carrying out an agricultural community 

 program are four: (1) The community committee meet- 

 ing, (2) the general community meeting, (3) action in- 

 tended to secure the desired result, and (4) recording and 

 applying the result. These steps involve planning, pub- 

 licity, action and application. 



The community committee meeting is necessary to discuss 

 and to perfect the plan for carrying out the program 

 locally, and to put a local group behind it. It should be 

 useful in enlisting interest and cooperation. If the main 

 lines of the program have been properly worked out orig- 

 inally with the people of the locality, this should be easy. 

 What is most important at such a meeting is to fix the 

 responsibility of each member of the committee for each 

 thing to be done, e.g., arrange for meeting place, advertise 

 the meeting, secure local cooperators, furnish necessary 

 materials, check up the results, etc., and to fix upon the 

 definite means by which the program is to be carried out, 

 whether by meetings, demonstrations, special organization 

 or what. Times and places for each step should also be 

 arranged. 



The second step is essentially publicity, or acquainting 

 all the people of the locality with the details of the plan 

 for carrying out the program which they have previously 



