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making the well sanitary; for a milk house; for 

 keeping flies out of the house or barn; a recipe 

 for driving ants and other insects from the house. 

 The boys in one family may come with a lot of 

 samples of soil, showing how differently each must 

 be treated for the same general crop results. Others 

 may bring specimens of "cheat" and noxious weeds, 

 and the like, with a scheme for destroying them. 

 Another may have a plan for a patent churn or a 

 labor-saving device in the kitchen. 



Thus there may be brought to the boys' fair an 

 interesting and most instructive variety of objects, 

 plans, and devices, all looking toward the improve- 

 ment of home conditions. Such a gathering as this 

 will bring not only the parents and other adults from 

 the home county, but great flocks of outsiders 

 will also come in and learn and become deeply 

 interested in the affairs of the County Young Men's 

 Christian Association. 



SPIRITUALITY NOT LOST SIGHT OP 



It ought to be easy for the average thinker to 

 appreciate the fact that all the foregoing rough-and- 

 ready work in the lives of the boys can be made a 

 practical means of the salvation of their souls as well 

 as of their bodies and intellects. Spiritual perfec- 

 tion is not reached at a bound. There must be 

 much doing of the crude yet worthy things which 

 grow naturally out of his inner nature before the boy 



