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it is usually called, which, should provide for at least four 

 things: (1) financing the work, (2) a program of work, 



(3) the cooperative employment of the county agents, and 



(4) supervision. 



The amounts of the finances needed are arrived at by 

 means of a budget in which the probable expenses for the 

 ensuing year are carefully estimated in detail to cover 

 salaries, travel, office and car maintenance, and miscellane- 

 ous items. The college provides a part of the salary and in 

 some states a part of the expenses, the franking privilege 

 to the agent as a representative of the Department and 

 certain services of its specialists. The remainder of the 

 budget is then raised locally, chiefly by securing appropria- 

 tions from the county Boards of Commissioners or Super- 

 visors or County Courts, as they are variously called, by 

 membership fees and also, to a less degree, from private 

 contributions and miscellaneous sources. In the making of 

 this budget the county committee usually has the benefit of 

 the experience and the advice of the county agent leader or 

 his assistant. 



THE PROGRAM OP WORK 



Eecently the colleges as cooperating parties in the work 

 have quite properly begun to insist that the counties de- 

 termine upon very definite programs of work for the co- 

 operatively employed county agents, which they must ap- 

 prove, and then that the agents stick to these programs. 

 This progressive step has been an evolution and the result 

 of a miscellaneous activity of agents which has too often 

 failed to be productive of results. 



Ideally, this program is finally arrived at by a large com- 

 mittee of farmers, usually called the county advisory com- 

 mittee, made up of the community committees from each 

 community in the county and thus representing all the 



