Community civics and rural life . serve the purposes of the class. Public officials are busypeople, and the publications for which you ask cost the people of the com-munity money. The members of the class may compete, if desired, in formulating a suit-able letter, and a class committee may select the best, or formulate one onthe basis of suggestions from the class. GOVERNMENT AS A MEANS OF COOPERATION 145 Materials collected in this way should become school property, and theclass should be conscious that it is accumulating a library for later classesas well as for themselves.) Study and report
Community civics and rural life . serve the purposes of the class. Public officials are busypeople, and the publications for which you ask cost the people of the com-munity money. The members of the class may compete, if desired, in formulating a suit-able letter, and a class committee may select the best, or formulate one onthe basis of suggestions from the class. GOVERNMENT AS A MEANS OF COOPERATION 145 Materials collected in this way should become school property, and theclass should be conscious that it is accumulating a library for later classesas well as for themselves.) Study and report on the following: The organization of your state department of agriculture: its officersand how chosen; its divisions and their work. The work done at your state experiment station (individual reports maybe made on the several important lines of work, or on particular investiga-tions or discoveries of interest). The character of the extension courses offered by your state agriculturalcollege. Courses given in your own Farmers Convention Hall, University of Tennessee Instances of regulative work done in your state and county by yourstate department of agriculture. Instances in which your county or locality has been served by your stateagricultural college or by the experiment station. The difficulty of the farmer in coping with animal disease or plant diseaseby his own effort. Facts to show that money has been saved to your community by thestate agricultural department or experiment station. Why the people of the cities of your state should pay taxes to supportthe department of agriculture. Facts to show that your state department of agriculture and your experi-ment station are really means of cooperation in your state and county. 146 COMMUNITY CIVICS Extent to which the farmers of your locality actually cooperate throughthe governmental machinery of the department of agriculture. Consult your parents or farmer friends as to ways in which the work ofyour state depar
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