10 BULLETIN 719, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTURE. 



congress, the object of which is to present to gu'ls throughout the 

 towels and rural districts of Montana the vocational opportunities 

 open to women. Tlie congress includes conferences on agriculture, 

 home economics, art, education, and newspaper work. Each club 

 selects a representative girl from the high school m its district and 

 pays her travehng expenses to and from Bozeman so that she may- 

 attend the vocational congress which is held at the State College. 

 Tlie college bears the expense of the speakers and the meetings, and 

 the club women in the town of Bozeman entertain the delegates in 

 their ow^i homes durmg the three days' visit. This has not only 

 benefited the girls, but their reports to the clubs sending them have 

 been the occasion of joint meetings of local clubs and of wider interest 

 m vocational opportunities. 



Tile efforts of country women in cooperating for broader agricul- 

 tural opportunities have been positive and constructive. They 

 have shown a desire to work out agricultural problems in a funda- 

 mental way which will enable them to maintain high standards of 

 home life on the farms. 



FARM WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS PROMOTE COMMUNITY LIFE IN THE 



COUNTRY. 



With home conveniences on the farm the women have time to 

 consider community needs and to plan for community development. 

 Farm women have been able to give much time to those things which 

 they beheve helpful to all, and their activities have been so numerous 

 that those mentioned here can serve only as illustrations. 



Rest rooms for farm women ^ have been estabhshed in many States 

 through the joint efforts of local clubs of rural women, in cooperation 

 with organizations of women ia town, chambers of commerce, and 

 pubhc officials. A room is maintained in a location convenient to 

 country women for their own use when in town. Couches, easy 

 chairs, reading material, and sanitary conveniences are provided. 



Community fairs ^ or school fairs have been promoted by farm 

 women in Montgomery County, Md., St. Joseph County, Mich., and 

 in nearly all other States. The purpose is largely educational, but 

 the meetings serve as opportunities in some localities to introduce 

 atlilctic contests as well as industrial and agricultural competition. 

 A county federation of women's clubs in Maryland arranged for an 

 automobile pageant at the county fair, with about 20 beautifully 

 decorated automobiles, some of them representing various women's 

 organizations. 



Home economics and manual training are often mtroduced into 

 the rural schools as a direct result of club work. The Federation 



1 See Agricultural Yearbook Separate 726, Rest Rooms for Women in Marketing Centers. 



2 See Farmers' Bulletin S70, The Community Fair. 



