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400 WHITE ROCKS 

 They're replacing the Rhode Island Reds. 



father Higgins was a blacksmith in 

 Neoga and Father Higgins farmed 

 part of the land now being farmed by 

 the Youngs. 



Max was born April 8, 1895, a mile 

 South of where he now lives. Mrs. 

 Young was born a mile and a half West 

 of the present home. Now it can read- 

 ily be seen that courting in Cumber- 

 land county calls for considerable cross 

 country traveling. But it so happened 

 that Neva Higgins grew up to girlhood, 

 went to grammar school and then to 

 the Neoga High School. From there 

 she went to Charleston Normal School. 

 A full fledged graduate, she went to 

 Lema to teach Latin and English in 

 the High School. After 4 years she 

 returned to Neoga to take a similar 

 position in the Township High School. 

 She taught one year. There the teach- 

 ing record ends. If you know your 

 geography, you know that Neoga is not 

 very far from Max Young's birthplace. 

 So there you have it. Neoga lost a 

 fine teacher but Ma.x Young got a 

 grand wife. 



Mrs. Young's hobby is music. She 

 has her own piano and enjoys playing 

 it for relaxation. She also plays the 

 piano in the Neoga Presbyterian 

 Church which the family attends. Both 

 she and Max are active in church af- 

 fairs but not exceptionally so. Max is 

 an elder and Mrs. Young belongs to 

 the Aid Society and club which is a 

 combination social and missionary 

 group. 



About Mrs. Young's chickens. She 

 has 175 Rhode Island Reds and 400 

 young White Rocks. She's giving up 



the Reds. They haven't been doing 

 so weU and she decided this year to 

 try White Rocks. She has been selling 

 eggs to the hatchery and hopes to have 

 better luck this year with the new 

 chickens. She also sells eggs on the 

 market — some to a produce man and 

 some to the stores in towns nearby. 

 The Young home comprises 7 rooms 

 and is as pleasant a place as you'd 

 want to find. It is heated with hot 

 water which saves a good many steps. 

 Mrs. Young's mother, Mrs. Higgins, is 

 with them for the present and it's 

 easy to see why the two children, Rob- 

 ert Lyle, age 11, and Phillip Allan, age 

 7, think Grandma is pretty swell. Phil 

 is in the second grade in the Lambert 

 school which is just across the road. 

 Bob also attends the same school and 

 is in the fifth grade. 



Says Neva Young of the Farm Bu- 

 reau, "The Farm Bureau has been a 

 great help to farmers. It is about the 

 only way farmers can get anything 

 done for them. I believe the Farm 

 Bureau should take time to acquaint 

 women with the Farm Bureau and 

 what it really means to them. It would 

 be a big thing if women could intelli- 



MAX YOUNG— SOWER 

 "Most fun is playing ball with the kids.' 



gently help their Farm Bureau mem- 

 ber husbands. Too often, women are 

 left out of the things Farm Bureau 

 is doing. Women can help a lot if you 

 let them." 



Besides being a mighty good farmer. 

 Max Young is a dyed in the wool Farm 

 Bureau member. His father before him 

 was what Max believes, a charter mem- 

 ber. Max himself has belonged for 10 

 years at least. The reason he belongs 

 he says is, "because of the various 

 co-operative groups. I don't know 

 where we farmers would get except 

 through co-operation. The Farm Bu- 

 reau, since I've belonged, has developed 

 a good bit more than I ever thought 

 it would." Max is putting in some 

 hard licks on the new soil conservation 

 plan of the government. Now, some 



farmers may not agree with him but 

 here is what he has to say about it. 

 "The new plan is far ahead of the old 

 corn-hog plan. It fits right in with 

 what I've been trying to do on my 

 own farm the last several years. I think 

 it will help stabilize prices. In a few 

 years it should lower the cost of pro- 

 duction by improving soil conditions. 

 It will bring farmers closer together 

 because, when they're working on the 

 same plan, farming along the same 

 lines, they'll get together. It used to 

 be that some farmers might want to 

 plant the back forty in something or 

 other and then not tell anyone about 

 it. Trying to' sort of put something 

 over. That didn't make for much co- 

 operation and it did drive many farm- 

 ers farther apart. This plan will get 

 away from that old individualistic idea 

 farmers have had. It never got us any- 

 where." 



Max is not one to sit back, hand out 

 opinions, and let others do all the work. 

 He has a record of service in his town- 

 .ship, and in his county that bears look- 

 ing at. He was president of the Cum- 

 berland County Farm Bureau four 

 years. He is on the board of directors 

 at the present time. He is on the Soil 

 Conservation Committee now and as 

 we said, working hard at it. He is on 

 the County Extension Program Plan- 

 ning Committee, and Chairman of the 

 Co-operative Marketing Committee 

 Group. What's more he is on the 

 township school board. Add it up and 

 you find you have a pretty active man, 

 what with operating a farm success- 

 fully, being a good father and a good 

 husband. 



There's not a great deal of use in 

 extoUing the co-operative ideals of 

 the Young family. When a person has 

 been brought up in the ideals of coop- 

 eration, and in reality think only along 

 those lines you can't come out and 

 show the difference between now and 

 ~, (Continued on page 33) 



ELLIS BRAY— HELPER 

 He sings the "Strawberry Roan.' 



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