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program, such as publicity, finances, programs for local and 

 county organization meetings, program of work for the organi- 

 zation, constitution and by-laws, etc. 



ORGANIZATION OF TEMPORARY COMMUNITY COMMITTEES 



(1) Arrangements should be made by telephone with the pros- 

 pective chairman of each community committee to hold a meet- 

 ing of the committee at his home. Ask him to communicate with 

 the other prospective committeemen, inviting them to attend the 

 meeting. 



(2) These telephone calls should be supplemented by per- 

 sonal letters signed by one of the members of the county com- 

 mittee. It is best not to discuss the purpose of the meeting other 

 than to suggest that advice is needed in determining matters of 

 great interest to the farmers in the community. 



(3) The organizer, accompanied by the county committeeman 

 who can be of most assistance in each community, should meet 

 with each committee in its own community, or, if time does not 

 permit, in a sectional meeting of the committees of several con- 

 tiguous communities. 



(4) At this meeting the purpose of the organization and its 

 relation to extension work, including work with farm men and 

 women, and young people, and plans for organizing the county, 

 should be explained carefully by means of charts, maps, and 

 blackboard. Definite plans for the campaign in the community 

 should be made and a definite promise to serve as committee- 

 men during membership campaign secured from each prospective 

 committeeman. 



COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION MEETINGS 



Following the committee meetings, an organization meeting 

 should be held in each community at which the leader, and 

 county and community committeemen, should explain county 

 farm-bureau work and the importance of having a large per- 

 centage of the men and women of the farms to cooperate in its 

 work as members of the farm bureau. During a recess the local 

 committeemen, already provided with membership cards and 

 membership badges, should solicit members. 



The local committeemen should then take the names of those 



