EFFECTIVENESS OF EXTENSION IN REACHING RURAL PEOPLE 3 
(Reverse) 
List below names of members of family who have carried on a junior project. 
x-„™„ Present Years in Prn; .„ t 
N*me age work Project 
Training after club Vrwnt nomination Present contact with Standing in 
work Present occupation extension work community 
(c) 
How has your community benefited through extension work: 
Suggestions for the improvement of the service: 
Attitude toward extension work 
If not a farm bureau or home bureau member, do you feel free to attend extension meetings': 
Why was membership in farm bureau or home bureau discontinued': 
Essentially the same questionnaire was used for all four areas. In 
the first survey made in Iowa, however, not quite as detailed informa- 
tion was obtained as in the later surveys. Minor changes were, of 
course, made in the questionnaire card to suit local conditions. 
Only actual farms were included in the study and no information 
was obtained from persons living in small villages or from those in 
the open country who did not operate farms. Before starting the 
field work considerable time was spent in the county extension office 
preparing information relative to the extension activities carried on 
in the county. In all cases those participating in the field survey 
were thoroughly acquainted with local work in order that more intel- 
ligent questions might be asked. 
AREAS INCLUDED IN STUDY 
In the four States — Iowa. Xew York, Colorado, and California — 
cooperating in this study, ' counties were selected where extension 
work had been carried on for several years and which wcie typical 
of large agricultural sections of the States. Within each county, an 
effort was made to select an area representative of the extension 
work of the county. The number of records obtained in each area 
varied with the number of areas within the State and the personnel 
assigned by the State extension director to assist in collecting the 
field data. 
The first field data were collected during the summer of 1923 in 
Marshall County. Iowa, where an area comprising five townships 
was covered. In Xew York, during the fall of 1923 and the spring of 
1924, three areas of approximately two townships each were covered in 
Chenango. Monroe, and Jefferson Counties. The Colorado and Cali- 
fornia areas were surveyed during the fall of 1924. In Colorado, 
