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be inadequate when paid secretaries and other officers were 

 employed. It will be seen then that the incomes of the 

 state federations in 1920 were all the way from a very few 

 hundred dollars in the smaller and more recently organized 

 states, to more than half a million in Illinois, with several 

 of the state organizations receiving more than one hundred 

 thousand dollars. 



FEDERATION MANAGEMENT 



In practically all the states the federations are gov- 

 erned by boards of directors made up of one or more dele- 

 gates from each member county, the favorite number of 

 delegates per county being one, with an alternate. A few 

 states base the number of delegates on the number of in- 

 dividual members in each member unit, as, for example, 

 one delegate for each five hundred or thousand members. 

 In the majority of the states the extension services of the 

 state colleges of agriculture are represented on the execu- 

 tive boards of the federations. In several states they are 

 not represented at all. The representative is usually the 

 extension director and in some cases the county agent 

 leader also. In practically all the states this representa- 

 tive has no vote on the committee but sits only as a conferee 

 and adviser. 



There is no organic relation whatever between the farm 

 bureau federations and the state colleges. Both parties, 

 however, have so much of common interest in the county 

 agent work that they need to consult and advise frequently 

 on many matters of mutual interest. The ex-officio mem- 

 bership of the extension director on the federation executive 

 committee, preferably without vote, provides the oppor- 

 tunity. 



