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by the county agent. It varies from two weeks to three 

 days in length. College specialists as a rule do most of the 

 teaching, two persons each giving two periods a day, some- 

 times with the help of the county agent. 



The local community committeeman and the county 

 agent are responsible for the organization and the local 

 arrangements for the schools. Preferably, a definite en- 

 rolment sufficient to warrant the time and the expenses 

 of the instructors, usually from thirty to forty persons, is 

 required in advance. Regular attendance is expected and 

 recorded by roll call. The best work can be done in such 

 schools only when those registered attend regularly and 

 study the lessons consecutively as they are given. In 

 order to encourage regular attendance, it is usually con- 

 sidered to be good practice to charge a fee (usually from 

 seventy-five cents to one dollar each on a basis of thirty 

 to forty attendance). The locality should furnish the hall, 

 heated and lighted, and in some cases illustrative or dem- 

 onstration material. 



Such a school offers an opportunity to study individual 

 and community farm problems systematically and with 

 more or less thoroughness. A variety of subjects may be 

 taken up, but it is usually better not to try to handle more 

 than two in the same school and these should be more or 

 less related. Two subjects give the instructors a chance 

 to alternate in lecturing and thus to rest. Soil improve- 

 ment and crop production as applied to the soils and crops 

 of a particular section go well together. Animal hus- 

 bandry and forage crop production make a good pair. 

 One general problem may be treated in two or more of its 

 phases, as for example, marketing, or, this may be com- 

 bined with farm management. A sample program combin- 

 ing problems of cooperative marketing and farm manage- 

 ment follows: 



