WOMEN S RTJKAL OEGAXIZATIOXS AXD THEIR ACTIVITIES. 
Oklahoma: 
Pennsylvania — Continued.- 
Texas — C ontinue 
Grady 
McKean 
Gregg 
Logan 
Montgomery 
Hidalgo 
Kiowa 
Westmoreland 
Lubbock 
Garfield 
Texas: 
Washington : 
Harmon 
Armstrong 
Grays Harbor 
Pennsylvania: 
Bee 
Skagit 
Delaware 
Cameron 
Snohomish 
Erie- 
Collin 
Yakima Valley 
Greene 
De Witt 
The clubs of the Department of Household Science of the Illinois 
Farmers' Institute have county meetings. One of the national 
associations has its work organized by counties. In State meetings 
members and delegates from the same county are seated together 
and reports of the work accomplished are made both by the county 
presidents and by the State chairman. Rural clubs in the country 
around the county seat frequently form a county organization to 
cooperate in establishing a rest room for farm women or in working 
for a woman county agent or a county appropriation for some other 
educational or charitable purpose. 
ORGANIZED EFFORT OF WOMEN DEVELOPS HOME LIFE. 
Through baby-welfare conferences and contests arranged by clubs, 
mothers study the development of their children and have the 
opportunity of securing instruction on health subjects from the com- 
petent physicians whose services for this purpose can be secured 
without expense. The civic committee of the Montgomery County 
Federation in Maryland arranged for such a welfare conference at 
the county fair. Twenty-five children were examined, of whom 
many were found to be subnormal, the physician reporting malnutri- 
tion as one of the main causes of the trouble. Mothers could remedy 
this to some extent by planning a better balanced diet for their 
children. Several national organizations of .women are encouraging 
the celebration of baby week, which is already observed yearly by 
hundreds of farm women's clubs. A club of country women living 
near Renwick, Iowa, celebrated baby week by cooperating with two 
other local women's clubs in holding a baby contest in Renwick. 
The State Agricultural College, through its extension service, detailed 
a physician to make mental and physical examinations, and a 
specialist to speak on child welfare, and local physicians volunteered 
their assistance. The rural women were notified by telephone, 
notices were published in the local paper, and prizes of five-dollar 
savings deposits were offered for the boy and girl between the ages of 
six months and three years found to be in the best physical condition. 
To defray incidental expenses each member of the club voluntarily 
contributed 30 cents. The prizes, equipment, and rooms for exami- 
