SOME QUALIFICATIONS OF THE WOMAN COUNTY AGENT 



girls will not only take advantage of opportunities to estab- 

 lish preserving kitchens and pure food shops of various 

 kinds, but they will take charge of the flower stores and gar- 

 dens. Better still, they will learn flowers and make their 

 homes attractive. It is an interesting development, in the 

 evolution of the Demonstration Work, that many of the agents 

 have already been called upon to suggest plans for building 

 farm homes. They have been called upon, too, to suggest proper 

 arrangement for farm kitchens. This has caused numbers 

 of them to study the fundamental principles of architecture. 

 The converging of so many minds on household devices and 

 conveniences naturally develops ingenuity and inventive power. 

 The whole field of architecture for the farm home is being 

 opened up more and more. The young women in colleges, 

 now who are preparing themselves for such service as this, 

 will do well to study the tendencies, as well as the actual 

 recorded results. Having begun the work with the daughter 

 in the garden, and having conducted canning on the lawn 

 and in the backyards, the agents have guided and directed 

 the activities through the kitchens, pantries, dining rooms 

 and the home in general. They have made constant sug- 

 gestions about equipment, including screening, furniture and 

 water works until they have come fully to the question of 

 beautification. The sixteen and eighteen year old girls, who 

 have been in the club for four years, are anxious to take the 

 advice of the agents with regard to the pictures in the homes, 

 Sowers, and shrubs and trees on the lawn. Thus the woman 

 county agent must know the elementary principles of art. 

 They are being called upon every day to enunciate such 

 principles and to utilize them. And it has come about in the 

 evolution of this great organization that the woman county 

 agent is called upon for advice and help in everything that 



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