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toes and garden, with animals, such as pig, calf, baby beef, 

 sheep and poultry, with canning, bread making, meal prepa- 

 ration, clothing and handicraft for the girls, and with hot 

 school lunches, and many others. Miscellaneous items are 

 not taken up. The bushels of crops grown and the animals 

 raised run into large figures just as they do in the South. 



On the whole, the club programs of work are probably 

 rather more definite and more closely supervised and give 

 more consideration to the education of the children and less 

 to using them to effect rural improvements. The percentage 

 of the original enrolment completing the projects is some- 

 what larger, and from this standpoint the work is more 

 satisfactory. 



The question of the relation of the club work to the 

 schools and to the Smith-Hughes work is an important 

 one. This was discussed in Chapter II. 



HOME DEMONSTRATION AGENTS 



Apparently, Doctor Knapp had the possibilities of dem- 

 onstration work in the homes with adult women in mind 

 from the first. He once spoke of it as the logical "third 

 step in advance." Beginning with a specific and pressing 

 problem with the men, he developed demonstration work 

 to the point where he saw its limitations as well as its suc- 

 cesses. He then saw the opportunity to improve farm con- 

 ditions through the next generation the boys and girls 

 and at the same time to educate them broadly. But all the 

 time he had a still larger, deeper purpose which he once 

 expressed in the following language : 



"The home eventually controls the viewpoint of a man; and 

 you may do all that you are a mind to in schools, but unless 

 you reach in and get hold of that home and change its condi- 



