390 RURAL SOCIOLOGY 



Extension work designed to be fundamentally helpful to farm 

 women would seem, therefore, to include within its scope certain 

 matters, as follows: 



1. Plans to increase the net income of the farm. Farm women 

 need more money for home purposes. The purchase of home 

 conveniences, the installation of water, sewerage, lighting, and 

 heating systems, kitchen and other conveniences, and the bring- 

 ing of literature and music into the home are, in the majority 

 of country homes, dependent upon greater net profits in farm- 

 ing. Knowledge of these conveniences and other desirable things 

 is good, but money to buy these desirable things is a vital neces- 

 sity if country life is to be made as acceptable to women as town 

 life. The county agent is giving especial attention to this phase 

 of the work. 



2. Plans to teach and demonstrate efficiency in farm home 

 management. These include such matters as wholesome food 

 properly prepared and served in adequate supply and variety 

 throughout the year, the care of the home and the family linen 

 and wardrobe, the care and management of children, and some- 

 times the handling of certain farm enterprises like poultry and 

 eggs, milk and butter, the garden, small fruits, etc. Efficiency 

 in farm home management contemplates the maximum of accom- 

 plishment with the minimum of effort to the end that the farm 

 family may find satisfaction and contentment in the home, and 

 that the time of the farm woman may be conserved. 



3. Plans for leisure and development. The farm woman needs 

 time for reading, self -development, child teaching, social life, and 

 recreation. 



In the development of Home Economics demonstration work, 

 there needs to be kept in mind the point of view that the prob- 

 lems of country women must chiefly be solved by country women. 

 The county agent movement in some sections of the North and 

 West started out primarily as a city man's movement, but it has 

 succeeded in exact proportion as the farmers of the country have 

 taken hold of the work and made it their own. 



City women can help in the development of the forthcoming 

 demonstration work in Home Economics for country women. 

 One of the ways in which city women can be of direct help in 

 the movement is through greater social intercourse with farm 



