CHAPTEE IX. 



INNER WORKINGS OF FARMERS CLUBS. 



.FARMERS CLUBS MUST BE SOCIAL. 



If we could have Clubs throughout the length and breadth 

 of the land, conducted on true social principles, so that the 

 farmers of each neighborhood might meet together, both 

 men and women, at stated times, especially during the win 

 ter months, and discuss matters of general interest (eschew 

 ing politics, of course), it would go a great way toward 

 elevating the status of the fraternity. Heretofore, this has 

 not been possible, but every day is making it easier and 

 easier of accomplishment, as the country becomes more 

 thickly settled, and facilities for locomotion increase. All 

 that is wanted, is that individual leaders in each neighbor 

 hood inaugurate the movement, and hold out faithfully until 

 it is accomplished. It would soon be found surprising how 

 many facts could be gathered, even from the seemingly ig 

 norant, which, stored up, would lay the foundation for future 

 usefulness. 



Thus each Farmers Club would become the nucleus, from 

 which agricultural societies, occupying a still higher plane, 

 might be formed, to discuss and compile from the facts there 

 gathered, some of the more important changes and trans 

 mutations that nature is working out so silently and with 

 such seeming mystery. 

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