Excerpt from A Ten-Year Review of Home-Management Extension, 1914-1924 The dominant idea behind extension programs directed to the improvement of the farm home is to enable the farm woman to perform her great variety of duties with less expenditure of energy and time. If some household task can be done in one hour instead of two, and with less physical effort, by the use of labor and time saving equipment, extension agents have brought that fact before farm women in an interesting and impersonal way. 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 Farm-Management Extension, 1914-1924 The first group is handled almost entirely through a card file in the office. This shows when each man's record is due to close, and other facts. A letter is sent each farmer near the end Of his year, inclosing an application card which he fill out and returns for a new book. When the record closes he is forwarded another book and at the same time requested to lend us the completed book for a county summary. Most of the new cooperators are obtained at the community planning meetings when the project is explained, leaders chosen, new men enrolled as cooperators, and arrangements made for further subject-matter meetings. Circular letters were also used, prepared by the farm-management specialist. For the new men, assistance in starting their accounts was given, largely in group meetings. An accounts started card was used, being sent to all men who were not inter viewed, with the request that they return the card if the book had been started. We like this system very much, as the response was prompt and permitted an accurate record to' be) kept. 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.

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