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Community programs are best worked out by small commu- 

 nity committees of men and women representing various 

 important interests in the community. They usually meet 

 around a table at the home of the chairman or another 

 member of the committee. This particular meeting was 

 held in Newcastle County, Delaware. Members are exam- 

 ining a fireless cooker presumably with the view of under- 

 taking to increase the use of this home convenience in the 

 community 10 



A good demonstration points out a truth and offers proof 

 wherever this is possible, as well as illustration of how 

 the truth may be applied. This demonstration of how 

 gophers were destroyed with poison in Lewis and Clarke 

 County, Montana, does both. The group of neighbors 

 who have suffered losses from this pest suggests that 

 the demonstration is timely and meets a real need . . 42 



The chief function of the farm and home bureau committeemen 

 and committeewomen is to exercise leadership in their 

 home communities in developing a practical and an effec- 

 tive local program of work and generally in getting de- 

 sirable things done. This farm bureau president and his 

 county agent are making plans together to secure the 

 more complete functioning of their community committees 70 



A careful study of all the facts should precede any attempt 

 to organize for cooperative marketing or for any other 

 purpose. The local community committee is admirably 

 adapted, with the help of the county agent, to make such 

 a study and to make a sound recommendation . . . 88 



Farmers in Essex County, New York, bringing in their small 

 individual lots of wool to the warehouse for grading and 

 pooling. Standardization of products and packages, better 

 quality, uniformity, a steady flow to market, all of which 

 tend to result from well conducted cooperative enterprises, 

 are as important to the consumer as to the producer . . 108 



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