10 BULLETIN 719, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
congress, the object of which is to present to girls throughout the 
towns and rural districts of Montana the vocational opportunities 
open to women. The congress includes conferences on agriculture, 
home economics, art, education, and newspaper work. Each club 
selects a representative girl from the high school in its district and 
pays her traveling expenses to and from Bozeman so that she may 
attend the vocational congress which is held at the State College. 
The college bears the expense of the speakers and the meetings, and 
the club women in the town of Bozeman entertain the delegates in 
their own homes during 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 
in vocational opportunities. 
The efforts of country women hi 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 believe helpful to all, and their activities have been so numerous 
that those mentioned here can serve only as illustrations. 
Rest rooms for farm women 1 have been established in many States 
through the joint efforts of local clubs of rural women, in cooperation 
with organizations of women in town, chambers of commerce, and 
public 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 2 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 
athletic 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 introduced into 
the rural schools as a direct result of club work. The Federation 
i See Agricultural Yearbook Separate 726, Rest Rooms for Women in Marketing Centers. 
• See Farmers' Bulletin 870, The Community Fair. 
