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of all the breeders in the association together with the descriptions 

 and the prices of the stock each has for sale. The buyer is then 

 enabled to purchase directly with the least inconvenience exactly the 

 animal he wishes to obtain. 



When a community becomes sufficiently interested to take up com- 

 munity breeding, it will very naturally use co-operation along other 

 lines. It will be very apt to develop co-operative feed buying. It 

 will also co-operate in the eradication of tuberculosis, contagious 

 abortion and other contagious and infectious diseases. The spread 

 of such diseases would be very materially check if, in a community, 

 every farmer took an active interest and co-operated with his fellow- 

 breeders in having his cattle systematically inspected. They would 

 also tend to adopt better methods of sanitation and their efforts 

 along these lines would result in a community owning herds that 

 were almost disease-free. 



In general, it may be said that community breeding advertises the 

 community, attracts to it a class of large buyers, and, in addition, 

 tends to bring about other less important, but very considerable 

 advantages of co-operation such as co-operative feed buying and a 

 co-operation in fighting disease. 



SONGS THAT LIVE 



By MRS. ROSE MORGAN, New York City. 



The child who, grown old, finds himself in possession of the blest 

 traditions and memories of the places and things of his childhood, en- 

 joys a legacy whose worth increases with the years, whose meaning 

 unfolds with life. Probably there is no form of early home influence 

 more enduring than the home song; and its power is continuous in 

 proportion to the place it occupied in that early home influence. The 

 home song, therefore, should be fundamentally a thing of truth. It 

 should not be the woven tinsel of fancy and sentimentality, but it 

 should be composed of words and melody that are coined from the 

 heart's pure gold. Such a song lives. There are few homes in this 

 State where a good song, if once it became installed, would not 

 be appreciated, and there is no home that would willfully cancel 

 or lose the power of that song as a memory-maker and as a character- 

 builder. Unworthy songs have crept in not because our home-making 

 hearts are wrong but because our home-making heads and hands are 

 so full of the work of the insistent present and the foreshadowing 

 future that we do not often stop to weigh the values in songs as 

 in other things. 



We believe the song to be a character-making force. We believe 

 that there are better songs for the country school, the grange, and 



