CHAPTER VIII. 



CONSTITUTION AND BUSINESS OF FARMERS 

 CLUBS. 



PRELIMINARY STEPS IN ORGANIZATION. 



Farmers in many communities are prevented from or 

 ganizing Clubs for the reason that they are not conversant 

 with the mode of organization. A few simple rules may 

 suffice. Any number of individuals, male and female, (and 

 in the organization of the social clubs it has been found nec 

 essary to perfect success that both sexes participate), may 

 meet together and agree upon the time and place for meet 

 ing. It is also better, in summer, at least, that an afternoon 

 be selected, and that the meeting be in the open air, when 

 the weather is favorable. 



It is also a pleasant adjunct to the social features to have 

 a simple lunch provided, unless it be deemed preferable to 

 make a pic-nic, each family furnishing its own basket of 

 eatables. This latter plan certainly approves itself, as paving 

 work to the hosts for the time being, and causing F, sub 

 division of the labor and expense of the gathering, as well 

 as adding to its enjoyability. 



Until the machinery is well in motion, and the newness of 

 the situation wears off, it is well to have the gatherings en 

 tirely informal and conversational ; in fact, principally de 

 voted to social chat upon the prospects of the crops, the 

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