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project leaders other than the temporary project leader <need be 

 selected. The club representative will look after the organiza- 

 tion of clubs, calling on other project leaders for needed help. 



Each community committee should meet to consider the ad- 

 visability of expanding the committee to include the other 

 phases of the work. Probably not all communities will care to 

 undertake the three lines of work the first year, but if addi- 

 tional projects are selected, names of additional community pro- 

 ject leaders should be submitted to the president for appoint- 

 ment as members of the community committees. The com- 

 munity committee should decide as to the advisability of pro- 

 moting a membership campaign in the community to increase 

 the membership of the women of the community. 



At the next annual meeting of the farm bureau the con- 

 stitution should be changed so it will cover the new phases of 

 the work, one program of work adopted, and officers and com- 

 mitteemen selected, each to be responsible for some part of the 

 program. 



D. VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATION 

 FARMERS' SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS 1 



KENYON L. BUTTERFIELD 



IN a word, then, a farmers' organization is a combination of 

 a considerable number of farmers, over a fairly wide area, for 

 some large general purposes of supposed value to farmers as a 

 class. 



Value and Need of Farmers' Organization. (1) Organiza- 

 tion is a powerful educational force. If it accomplished no other 

 result it would be worth all it costs. Every cooperative effort 

 among farmers stimulates discussion, arouses interest in funda- 

 mental questions, makes abstract questions concrete and vivid, 

 trains individuals in self-expresssion. 



(2) Other classes are organized. Business, the trade, the 

 professions are all organized to some degree for many purposes 



i Adapted from Bailey, L. H., Cyclopedia of American Agriculture, Vol. 

 IV: 289-297. 



