The Independent Reporter

MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN IN SOMERSET COUNTY DIRECT RESULT EXTENSION WORK

Purposes and Plans to Obtain More People in the Organization—Towns Will be Grouped

It is the present purpose of the Reporter to feature in its agricultural department, weekly communications relative to Extension Service and Farm Bureau Work for Somerset County. At the present time there is a concerted effort to gain new members and a membership campaign is now in order. The purpose of the campaign is to collect dues from those who now hold membership in the organization and to secure new members. The campaign plan contemplates the following general procedure:

1. Divide the county into districts and secure a manager in each district.

2. Hold a conference with each chairman to review the work to be done at the coming committee meeting and win his support.

3. Arrange to hold all committee meetings in one district before beginning those in some other part of the county.

4. Begin the campaign in each community immediately after each committee meeting or within a few days at the outside.

5. A progress report should be made by all chairmen at the time of the annual meeting.

6. A clean-up campaign directly following the annual meeting.

A separate quota for men and women will be set in making the drive for these new members.

The State Federation of Farm Bureaus will aid in this membership campaign by drawing up uniform plans of the campaign for use in all counties, furnishing copies of the same to the Farm Bureau president, vice president and agents as well as other interested persons. It will also determine the progress made in each county and keep each farm bureau notified of this progress. It will further assist in the campaign by securing such state wide publicity as possible, giving results of extension work, plans for annual meeting, membership campaigns and progress being made.

Farm bureau members are secured yearly as a direct result of extension work done or to be accomplished and upon no other basis. Therefore, an important essential of a successful campaign is the sound program of work, properly carried out and the results made known to the people of the county.

It is along these lines that the local officials will endeavor to carry out their campaign.