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1. (See Farmers' Club Work.) 2. Teaching Experience.

FARMERS' SHORT COURSE. WORK.

1. (See Farmers' Club Work.) 2. Teaching Experience.

GIRLS' CLUB WORK.

1. Y.W.C.A. Experience.

2. (See Boys' Club Work.)

HOME ECONOMICS WORK.

1. College Training.

2. Teaching Experience.

3. Experience in Farm Home.

4. Public Speaking.

5. Professional Training in Domestic Sciènce.

LECTURE COURSE WORK.

1. Public Speaking.

2. Psychology.

3. Farm Experience.

4. Specialization.

TEACHERS' AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE WORK.

1. B.S. in Agriculture.

2. Pedagogy.

3. Experience in Teaching.

4. Professional Training.

Boys and Girls' Club Work.

Although the answers to the questions represent very

diversified conditions, coming as they do from all parts of the country, they are in striking accord. Fitness for boys' and girls' club work centers around general education and experience, supplemented by an ability to organize, to speak in a manner that will arouse and hold the attention of children, together with a strong interest and liking for nature study work." The ultimate aim of the club work is the making of good rural citizenship," and the extension worker in this type of work should be an individual who does the work because he loves it, who can organize the activities of boys and girls in nature study work and who can make farm life stand out as something potentially attractive and worth while. Experience in Y.M.C.A. or Y.W.C.A. organization work is very helpful, in the opinion of some of the extension leaders. And others feel that experience in teaching, especially rural school work, ia strong essential for success along this line.

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Demonstration Farm Work.

In demonstration farm work, the quality that stands out most prominently is thorough knowledge of the practises of farming, combined with a college training and the ability to apply sound principles to local conditions." There will always be a strong demand for strong men with good training " in this

1. Proceedings of Asso. of Am. Agr.Coll. & Exp.Sta.1911.p 218 2. Proceedings of Asso.of Am.Agr. Coll. & Exp.Sta.1911.p 97.

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