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doorway and as I passed I heard a very interesting conversation 

 between, a group of farmers and a professor, so I walked in and 

 found Mr. Doane in his office explaining his plan of co-operation in 

 farm management. When it came time to join I wrote my name 

 and asked if my father's name would be acceptable, as the fee was 

 small at the beginning. When I reached home I told my father of 

 the plan, so he wrote Mr. Doane asking him to come to our place 

 and make it a demonstration farm, if possible. Mr. Doane never 

 got there until July and then he changed our plan considerably 

 and before long made us demonstrators. He did not visit us very 

 often, but when he did we were all certainly glad to see him, for 

 he always had lots of encouragement and new plans to help along 

 in, a financial way. 



Mr. Doane's plan means more intensive methods and more 

 intensive labor, for there isn't a time that there isn't as much as 

 we can do, for we try to follow his advice as close as possible. But 

 I have found one objection to it, and to get the returns we do at 

 present I can't supply a substitute for it. Now, the objection is 

 that it is entirely too easy for my father to find something for me 

 to do. Guess I had better not be too hard on my father this time, 

 though, for he is here. He is not so bad as some I suppose, either, 

 for I know some short course men who have come here and gone 

 home, expecting to carry out some of their plans, that were good, 

 but the old way was good enough for father, and they didn't, so it 

 wasn't long till they lost most all interest. In other words, they 

 must get results. The results I have gotten through Mr. Doane 

 and father have certainly given me the required inspiration and 

 aspiration to go higher and higher in the same direction. The op- 

 portunities and encouragement we boys get at home are great 

 indeed. Herbert, the youngest, gets an old hen and chickens, so 

 he cares for the poultry and he's the poultryman. Ralph gets a 

 pig, for instance, so he is the hog man. Ray gets a sheep, so he 

 becomes the shepherd while out of school, and I get one-half the 

 seed corn saved, so I am the corn man. Our father gets all the 

 milk and butter he can handle, so he is the dairyman. We all have 

 a part to do or a class of stock to care for and that is our task that 

 must be done, for we keep the farm records and these records are 

 helpful in encouraging a boy to see that there is something worth 

 while in farm work. We all like to see just where our money 

 comes from (the records show that) and also where it goes. If 

 one class of live stock doesn't do a,s well as it should the iiQcords, 



