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who make this their business and who are constantly alert 

 to improvements. Moreover, the Land Grant Colleges are 

 required under the Smith-Lever Act to plan their work 

 carefully in advance and in detail by college and federal 

 officers. Unfortunately, these programs can be of no value 

 except as they are applied locally. In other words, they 

 largely depend for their application upon incorporation 

 into local programs. The same is true of federal programs 

 of work. Both state and federal programs must clear to 

 the individual through the efforts of the local people and 

 their application is limited thereby. 



The state and national farm bureau programs are usually 

 distinct in character from the Department, college and 

 local programs, and the county agent has nothing to do 

 with them unless it be to help give local publicity. In 

 many states the county farm bureaus have programs dif- 

 ferent from the programs of work which the county agent 

 carries on with their cooperation. State and national 

 programs are to an extent a summary or compilation of 

 these local programs. However, as a rule the programs of 

 the state and national federations are separately worked 

 out, financed and executed and without the assistance of 

 the county agent. There is much room for better co- 

 ordination and correlation of parts of these programs with 

 those of the county agent and specialists by means of state 

 committees to meet such needs as standardization and 

 quality production. 



GENERAL VALUES 



Program making in the counties has a general value 

 which in itself almost justifies the effort to formulate a 

 program. Nothing else has contributed so much to the 

 clarification of purposes and ideals and to the definition 



