Excerpt from Effectiveness of Extension in Influencing Rural People: Study of 379 Farms and Farm Homes in Newport, Providence, and Kent Counties, R. I., 1928 The data on which this study is based were collected by representatives of the Federal office of Cooperative Extension Work and of the Extension Service of the Rhode Island State College together with the three county agents, none of whom, however, collected data in their own counties. Each farm and farm home in the area selected was visited personally and both the man and woman interviewed (fig. La and lb.) Only farmers and farm women were interviewed. No data were collected from village homes or from the numerous places in the Open country which were used as a place of residence and not as a farm although many owned considerable land, kept a cow, poultry, and had a garden. Only information obtained from the family itself was recorded on the cards. Although there are in all five counties in Rhode Island, there have never been but three county extension offices, one for Newport County, one for Providence and Bristol Counties combined, and one for Kent and Washington Counties combined. Therefore, an area in each county agent's territory was selected as representative of the entire State. The exact location of each territory studied is indicated on the ao - companying State map (fig. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.