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agent of this Farm Bureau furnishes fields, orchards or other necessary 
material for the demonstration to be given by the entomologist. 
Following the conference, the county agent then gives the necessary 
time to the project to cover his county. In cases of unusual activity 
of an insect the entomologist devotes 2 or 3 days to assisting the county 
agent in holding campaign meetings in his county, thus more definitely 
and thoroughly instructing the agent, and incidentally a few selected 
farmers, in the measures of control to be used. 
The conferences throughout the state are held within as short a 
period as practicable. The time for the agents to begin work on the 
project is definitely determined and set so that all the agents in the 
several districts will be ready on or about the same date. Every 
county agent beginning the campaign at the same time, the publicity 
department of the college can send out news items to all big newspapers, 
the local newspapers and to the farm papers. In a very short time 
every farmer is talking, thinking and working on the project. 
The conference plan of seeing the county agents, means that the 
entomologist will see 50 to 60 agents in 6 days or less; each agent will 
see his insect committee consisting of 20 to 25 farmers in his county 
during the next 3 to 4 days. Thus in this manner 1,000 farmers who 
are leaders of the insect projects in the state are fully informed within 
6 to 10 days. 
. The educational part of the project is divided into four parts: first, 
the follow-up; second, the county fairs; third, the farmers’ institutes; 
and fourth, the extension schools. The follow-up program is that part 
of the work done by another department of the Extension Division, 
known as the home study department. The entomologist writes one 
or more short lessons on the subject which he is demonstrating to the 
county agent and farmers. The home study department then sends 
a mimeographed copy of these lessons to every farmer in the county 
immediately after the agent and entomologist complete the two or 
three day campaign. 
The county fairs afford opportunity to show results of insect con¬ 
trol, especially on fruit and garden truck and for meeting many farm 
men and women not otherwise available. The farmers’ institute 
permits the meeting of many people. Here the extension school is 
advertised and what can be done at such school indicated. The 
extension school in Kansas is of from 3 to 6 days duration and is for 
farm men and women. A few pertinent lessons are given on timely sub¬ 
jects, allowing the entomologist to instruct a few men and women on 
definite problems. It has often been observed by extension workers 
that 25 men in a community taught a lesson is the means of the 
dissemination of that lesson to 150 to 200 men in a very short time. 
