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project loaders 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 

 I ) liases 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. 



