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iarms tnrougnout me country. These programs range from long-established and continuing measures to special emergency assignments. Each was developed in response to a particular need which farmers Individually could not solve. ■ Each calls for cooperative action by many individuals toward a common purpose. Since the effectiveness of these "joint action” programs depends upon close contact between farmers and government, it was necessary to have an administrative system which would reach as directly as possible from the farm to the national office and vice versa. This the farmerelected committee system does. The committees have provided the spark and imagination as well as the judgment needed in locally adapting and running ASCS farm programs. They have merited their neighbors’ confidence by doing ... their Job in a way that is best fir the farmers, the county, and the country as a whole. Starting at the farm com. munity, farmers put the com, mittee election machinery into motion by choosing from their neighbors an A SC community committee of three members and two alternate members. The newly elected chairman acta as delegate to a county
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