CHAPTER VI 



SOME QUALIFICATIONS OF THE WOMAN COUNTY 



AGENT 



IN outlining the qualifications of the woman county agent 

 it must be borne in mind that this is a new and developing 

 work. It is only ten years old. A decade is a short time in 

 the history of any educational movement. Perhaps a hundred 

 years may elapse before the novelty and freshness wear away. 

 Because this method of work has so much action in it, and 

 because it reaches the fundamentals of civilization so vitally, 

 it should never crystallize nor institutionalize to the extent 

 which other methods and processes of education have done. 



The Home Demonstration Handbook, issued by the 

 Georgia College of Agriculture in 1920, says : 



''Home Demonstration Work has come to be a comprehensive 

 system of education for rural home makers. Its object is the fullest 

 and finest development of women and girls through the use of all 

 the many resources of the farm home and farm community. Its 

 chief means of realizing these aims is the initiative aroused by * the 

 demonstration' which the individual makes as an object lesson for 

 her family and community." 



While the Extension Act was intended primarily for rural 

 people, there has been much home demonstration work done 

 in urban communities also. 



It should be noted further that there is some overlapping 

 of the qualifications and duties of the Farm Demonstration 

 Agents and those of the Home Demonstration Agents. The 



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