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Advice on club projects. Club projects should be 

 selected with great care. The county agent should be con- 

 sulted as to the best project for the boys to undertake, and 

 the woman county agent should be consulted as to the best 

 one for the interest of the girls and the home. All of the 

 club projects outlined in this book will be of especial interest 

 to the county agricultural agents and they will be glad to 

 give encouragement and assistance to the work. They will 

 help plan also the work of the manual training classes in the 

 rural and village schools so that it will fit into the needs of 

 the farm, the garden and the home. 



Special programs, The county agent should be in- 

 vited to the school, and especially in connection with the 

 special programs of an industrial and agricultural nature. 

 His help can be secured in the conducting of agricultural 

 demonstrations, the judging of grains, fruits, vegetables 

 and stock, and the organization of rural games and con- 

 tests. His advice will be valuable in determining the basis 

 of award and the methods of judging a contest. He should 

 also be consulted with reference to suitable circulars and 

 Farmers' Bulletins for correlation reading in connection 

 with the agricultural and home economics studies of the 

 school. 



TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION 



1. Have you a county agricultural agent in your 

 county? If so, who, and how long has he served the 

 county? Where is his office located? Who pays his sal- 

 ary? Has the county a lady agent? Who is she? Tell 

 something about the character of her work. 



2. It was estimated that in one county the work 

 of the various leaders increased the yield of corn by five 

 bushels an acre in a certain year. The county is twenty- 

 four miles square and eighty per cent, of the area is un- 

 der cultivation. Of that under cultivation forty-five per 

 cent, was in corn. What was the leaders' help on the 

 corn crop worth to the county, figuring corn at fifty cents 

 a bushel? 



