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\nATICNAL home OLVCNS7kATIC'N WEEK
The first week in I!ay has been designated
National Hone Demonstration V'eek. During
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that week rural .women will let -people know
what it means to belong to hone demonstra
tion clubs.
Here are some-of the facts about hone demon
stration work, which is that uart of the Ag
ricultural Extension Service urogram which
deals with the home.- Of the-3,107 counties
in the United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and
Puerto Rico, 2,301 employ one-or more hone
demonstration’agents. County,State, and Fed
eral Governments contribute to this work,
■Additional funds made available by Congress
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have increased the number of hone demonstra
tion agents by 622 in the past 2 years, and
more would have teen added if trained workers
had been available;
The average agricultural county has 2,285
farm homes, and on the average about half
■?f the families in’ these hones make use of
the up-to-date information on homemaking
brought to them throu h iior.-.e demonstration
ror k.
The hone demonstration agent is a teacher.
3one of the teaching is done through the
50,COO hone demonstration clubs v '.th a mem
bership of 1,162,346 women. These clubs meet
monthly, Loaders are chosen who mot srecial
training in various vhascs . f the hone demon
stration program b” the ajcr.t or specialists
from the State college, T:. .ininf schools were
held for 423,000 such leaders last year, These
leaders passed on the information to their fel
low club :-.embers by means of talks and donon
strations.
home demonstration club represent about 38$
of the families influenced by hone demonstra
tion work. Information was used by nearly 2
million other families who heard about it by
reading a bulletin or an article in the news
paper, listening to the radio, or calling the
Eigen'ts office, or they heard the agent speak
at one of their church or lodge meetings.
The hone demonstration agent spends GC$ of
aer time presenting helpful information and
giving demonstrations at meetings or visiting
farm homes. Altogether, these agents reach
nore than 19 million ~>eowls in meetings and
visit close to 842,000 families in their own
hones during the year.
The home demonstration agent's office is at
the county seat, often in the courthouse.
3’ere in a single year more than 1,443,000
visitors get advice on the"widest variety of
home problems. Some 1,717,696 otters get
their information via the office telepiione.
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