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careful examination has been made by our experts, as to what their needs 

 are. The people themselves usually set about by means of committees 

 to study the agricultural, educational, civic, transportation, recreative, 

 and religious needs of their own communities. I have time to give you 

 the results in only one community where such a movement has taken 

 place. The farmers have co-operated in buying fertilizers, feed stuffs, 

 spraying materials, and in selling their fruit, thus saving money at both 

 ends of the transaction. Appropriations have been increased for roads. 

 Experts have been called in to advise them as to how the schools may be 

 improved, landscape architects have advised them on town beautification, 

 and two struggling churches have decided to unite into one strong, useful 

 body. Petty jealousies have been wiped out, and there is a ''get-together" 

 spirit in that community which has not been known there for generations. 



We teach agriculture to more than 20,000 boys and girls through 

 'corn, potato, tomato canning and poultry clubs, each year. Trips to 

 Washington, Boston, and the college furnish ample reward to the state 

 winners. Girls performing household duties are in the future to have the 

 same opportunities in this competition as their brothers who are in the 

 crop and poultry contests. This club work has well been called "the 

 kindergarten of agriculture." Surely it will have a greater tendency to 

 interest boys and girls in plants, animals and things agricultural than any 

 other movement that has yet been started. 



In co-operation with the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States 

 Department of Agriculture, we make farm management field studies and 

 investigations. Farm records, showing profitable and unprofitable enter- 

 prises, labor income, etc., are taken; accounting systems are introduced; 

 farms are reorganized; advice is given as to equipment, buildings, cropping 

 systems, rotations, etc. 



We have a demonstration auto truck equipped with spraying appara- 

 tus, pruning tools, dairy appliances, stereopticon and slides, books, pam- 

 phlets and other appliances, in charge of a competent demonstrator. This 

 man goes, from town to town meeting small groups of farmers for confer- 

 ences, and then visiting individual farms to demonstrate any of the things 

 on which information is desired. This is the most effective means of 

 getting close to the individual farmer that we have yet tried. 



In all of this practical instruction of the farmer we are not overlooking 

 the farmer's wife, his daughter, or the problems of the home. The bal- 

 anced ration for the family is now to receive as much attention as the 

 balanced ration for the cow. Our instructors in home economics and 

 domestic science work through the granges, women's clubs, extension 

 schools, teachers' associations, and other organizations for women, giving 

 instruction in problems of food, sanitation, labor saving equipment, home 

 beautification, textiles, clothing, etc. 



One of our recent developments is the taking on of a man trained in 

 landscape architecture and thoroughly imbued with the civic improve- 



