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ning, etc. This assistance is given by or under the direction 

 of the specialist in charge of club work, Oflfice of Farm Manage- 

 ment, Bureau of Plant Industry. Other work of this specialist 

 will be referred to under State prizes. 



The Massachusetts farm bureaus and improvement leagues 

 are making the club w^ork a branch of their service to the 

 several counties in which they work. In some cases the time 

 of one person is devoted to the club work. Sometimes the 

 club work is promoted in connection with the more specialized 

 duty of some member of the bureau or league staff. The co- 

 operation of the college club workers and the bureau club 

 workers consists more in the method of doing the work than 

 in the official and financial relationship existing between the 

 two agencies, although the financial relation is not absent, since 

 county extension workers must have the approval of the Ex- 

 tension Service of the college in order to enjoy the privilege of 

 Federal aid. The representatives of the college work through 

 the office of the county organization. Where the county has a 

 person in charge of club work, the representatives of the 

 college act sometimes as advisers in planning work, sometimes 

 as assistants in carrying forward projects already planned. 

 This puts the matter on the broad basis of mutual helpfulness 

 in pushing along this splendid enterprise. 



Co-operating Agencies of a Private and Local Character. 



Village improvement clubs, women's clubs and similar local 

 organizations have been helpful factors in promoting and sus- 

 taining interest in the Boys' and Girls' Club work from its 

 beginning in 1908 as a State-wide movement. As a matter of 

 fact, some work had been done by local communities prior to 

 that time, notably in Boston, Lynn, Waltham, Newton and 

 other cities, some of which have been doing garden work for 

 twenty-five years. The town of Gill has had a Boys' and Girls' 

 Agricultural Club since 1903. The schools of Williamsburg, 

 Chesterfield, Worthington and Haydenville had been promoting 

 home garden work. All these local agencies at once became 

 willing and helpful co-operators. 



Private individuals, business firms and banks have supplied 

 funds for premiums as well as for paying local supervisors and 



