Excerpt from Educational Practices of Farmer Cooperatives When given an Opportunity to check 12 devices useful in maintaining favorable relations with members, the replying cooperatives attached about equal importance to annual meetings and personal contacts. Rank ing next were monthly publications, local discussion groups, circular letters, and periodical reports. Following these were radio programs, all family programs, cooperative Future Farmers of America and 4-h Club projects, and educational exhibits. Mentioned least frequently were discussion outlines. In addition to the above, the responding cooperatives wrote in a number of other devices found helpful in maintaining good membership relations. Leading this supplementary list were educational meetings, courteous and efficient employees, motion pictures and film strips, member participa tion, and interagency relations. Used to a lesser extent were special publications, educational tours, market news services, social events, contests and awards, women and youth programs, magazine and newspaper articles, and educational-type advertisements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Cooperative Agricultural-Extension Work Extension work is that phase of instruction which is carried on among people who are not resident at an educational institution. During the past 10 years the Department of Agriculture and State agricultural colleges have been developing special methods of agri cultural extension work to make their knowledge and discoveries avail able to the farmers. This circular is written to explain briefly the extension work now carried on, and to point out how the farmers and their families may avail themselves of the services of the department and the colleges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Vocational Agricultural Education by Home Projects The Act of Congress known as the smith-hughes Act requires at least six months a year of supervised practice in agriculture, either on a farm provided for by a school or on some other farm. This minimum requirement must be met by all who desire federal aid for vocational agricultural education. The home-project plan, reviewed in the following pages, meets this requirement. Plant projects, from the preparation of the land to the storage or the disposal of the products, have a natural life of fully six months. Animal projects are better for supervision, nine, ten, or eleven months a year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.