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Both this early experience and county agent leadership 

 are, it is hoped, leading to a sounder and more permanent 

 type of organization. The tendency is more and more to 

 study particular situations and needs before organizing. 

 An effort is also made to base organization on local units 

 and to build up cooperative organization around commodi- 

 ties, in other words, to build an organization to deal with 

 common problems on common ground. Moreover, the 

 tendency in organization is toward constructive and not 

 simply corrective objectives. All of these factors should 

 make for real achievement and hence greater permanency 

 in farmers' organizations. 



The county agent is usually called upon or finds it de- 

 sirable to use, at least, three types of organization work. 

 The first of these may be called the production type and 

 consists of the organization of a group of men with some 

 common production problem, in order to work out this 

 problem more satisfactorily and over a wider area. Good 

 examples of this type are the cow testing association, the 

 spray service and seed improvement associations. The 

 second type, and a more common one, is the organization 

 for buying or selling selling grain, livestock, milk, wool, 

 fruit, cotton, etc., and buying farm supplies, particularly 

 seeds, feeds and fertilizers. The last type, with which the 

 home demonstration agent is perhaps more largely con- 

 cerned, is the social organization, examples of which are 

 community clubs, etc. The latter type will be more fully 

 treated in Chapter V. 



ORGANIZING! LOCAL MOVEMENTS 



When the county agent arrived on the job, he found 

 as a rule fairly good social organizations of farmers in 

 most of the states, such as granges, farmers' clubs, and 



