Excerpt from The Effectiveness of Home-Economics Extension Work in Reaching Farm WomenIn eleven of the fifteen States home demonstration agents had been employed in the counties involved at the time of collecting the field data, for an average of six years. In two of the States the counties studied had had the services of a district home demonstration agent serving from three to four counties, While in the remaining two States the only home economics extension conducted, outside of emergency work during the war, was handled by agricultural agents with the assistance of home economics specialists.Only one measure of the effectiveness of extension teaching is employed the adoption of better home economics practices by farm women. It is recognized that there are other results from extension effort such as local leaders developed and boys and girls trained.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.