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Neighborly Help. 



looked forward to by coun 

 try-bred youth. These, and 

 many other neighborly acts, 

 have been common in every 

 community of farmers from 

 time immemorial. Through 

 a close social organization 

 among them, the principle 

 may be applied in a variety 

 of ways, keeping alive a 

 kindly and generous feeling, 

 one toward another, and 

 proving of great material 

 benefit, also, through co-op 

 erative assistance in carrying out the labors of the farm. 



The soil of one farm may become ready to plow, or sow, 

 or harvest, days before another. In the Society, this might 

 be arranged, and the labor mapped out in succession, so that 

 much valuable time now lost might be saved. A. s field 

 may be plowed and seeded to-day, B. s field to-morrow, and 

 so on. If B. has double the land of A., he has, or should 

 have, double the team. If he do one day s work for A. 

 with two teams, he should receive in return two day s work 

 with one team. The rich neighbor may, perhaps, have the 

 better teams, and, therefore, the poor neighbor may receive 

 more than he gave; but, again, the gain in having the 

 work of both accomplished just when it should be, would 

 more than balance this. 



Plans may also be laid in the Council or Club, that will 

 enable the farmer to successfully compete with his city 

 neighbor, who is acutely educated to trade. The farmer 

 owning a thousand acres or more is able to economize labor 

 in a variety of small things, and thus saves, where the 



