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The Home Demonstration Agent
Title
The Home Demonstration Agent
Excerpt
The history of the cooperative Extension Service is a story of growth in rural America-- a growth of the soil and the people who till the soil. Its over-all goal has always been to help rural people live better. To do this, it must take to these families not only the science of agriculture but that of homemaking as well.
This publication tells how the county home demonstration agent had gone about helping farm families to improve their homemaking. It also suggests some of the trends in rural life that she will want to take into account in planning her work in the future.
I believe that all county, State and national extension workers will fund this publication helpful. I hope that through its pages, rural leaders, civic leaders, and others will get a clearer understanding of the home demonstration agent and her work.
Women look to the home demonstration agent for help in their activities having to do with the home and family living. Girls turn to her for guidance and inspiration as they prepare for the future. Farm families generally feel she has a knowledge and a sympathetic understanding of their problems. All know she is a friend.
The home demonstration agent is known not only for this interest in improved family living and appreciation of it but for certain personal characteristics as well. Honesty, courage, initiative, common sense, and good judgment have been associated with her position. If she is thus outstanding, it is because the people with whom she works expect her to be the kind of person she is.
Learn more about the home demonstration agent and you will understand better the problems of the rural homemaker, the farm family, and how the Extension Service is contributing to the democratic process.
This publication tells how the county home demonstration agent had gone about helping farm families to improve their homemaking. It also suggests some of the trends in rural life that she will want to take into account in planning her work in the future.
I believe that all county, State and national extension workers will fund this publication helpful. I hope that through its pages, rural leaders, civic leaders, and others will get a clearer understanding of the home demonstration agent and her work.
Women look to the home demonstration agent for help in their activities having to do with the home and family living. Girls turn to her for guidance and inspiration as they prepare for the future. Farm families generally feel she has a knowledge and a sympathetic understanding of their problems. All know she is a friend.
The home demonstration agent is known not only for this interest in improved family living and appreciation of it but for certain personal characteristics as well. Honesty, courage, initiative, common sense, and good judgment have been associated with her position. If she is thus outstanding, it is because the people with whom she works expect her to be the kind of person she is.
Learn more about the home demonstration agent and you will understand better the problems of the rural homemaker, the farm family, and how the Extension Service is contributing to the democratic process.
Creator
United States Department of Agriculture
Publisher
United States Department of Agriculture
Date
1946
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