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the role of extension for the last 50 years in developing the 4-H Club program. '
In the early days of 4-H, the trained extension agents worked with the children of farm families. The plan provided the wedge that opened the door for the agents to reach the farmers and their wives.
No Free Enterprise
It has been suggested that Khrushchev might further improve farming under communism if he also had initiated a program for youth patterned after the 4-H Clubs. Seventy other foreign countries have. But Russia lacks the incentive and backing provided by private enterprise.
U.S. industry has backed 4-H work right from the beginning. It provides technical know-how, financial aid and recognition. More than 55 leading business firms cooperate with the extension service and the National 4-H Service Committee in sponsoring individual projects.
Today there are at least three dozen areas of 4-H- Club work.
Some of the newer programs and their sponsors are: Photography, Eastman Kodak; Con
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