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president, a secretary, and a treasurer, all of whom should be 

 elected at the annual meeting for a period of one year. The 

 officers should be chosen because of special fitness to represent 

 important projects or activities of the organization, as well as 

 because of their fitness to perform the regular duties of the 

 respective offices. For the most part the officers should be farm 

 men and women. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



An executive committee of from 5 to about 11 members, in- 

 cluding the officers of the bureau as ex-officio members, should 

 be elected by the bureau at its annual meeting for a period of 

 one year. Each member may be called a county project leader. 

 It is advisable to have an efficient nominating committee ap- 

 pointed at the annual meeting, in order that the names of 

 members capable of effective service in planning and develop- 

 ing the projects or activities may be presented to the meeting. 

 This committee may contain members suggested to the nominat- 

 ing committee by the official county board of commissioners or 

 supervisors, the grange, the farmers' union, the equity, the 

 farmers' clubs, cooperative associations, county fair, schools, 

 etc. 



The executive committee is usually selected so that practically 

 all sections of the county will be represented, but in targe 

 counties with inadequate transportation facilities committeemen 

 should be selected who can attend the regular (monthly) meet- 

 ings conveniently. In the selection of a committeeman one of 

 the chief objects should be to secure a man or woman whose 

 qualifications and personal interest fit him or her to plan and de- 

 velop some one important line of work or activity of the bureau, 

 such as farm-bureau organization, farm-bureau publications, 

 meetings, exhibitions, finance, food-conservation work, crop im- 

 provement, live-stock improvement, farm management, supply- 

 ing farm labor, cooperation between farmers' clubs, development 

 of better marketing facilities, etc. It is, therefore, evident that 

 the number of committeemen will depend on the number of pro- 

 jects or activities of the farm bureau. In order to prevent the 

 committee from becoming too large and unwieldy, a committee- 



