BEADING HABIT 



rural communities because (1) they are 

 directly related to the life of the people, 

 and (2) because they are dynamic or have 

 an active follow-up system. 



Need of organization 



Every social or educational organization 

 that exists in the open country should be a 

 means of developing and spreading the 

 reading habit. Local granges should be 

 reading centers. The farmers' institutes 

 should leave behind them some kind of an 

 organization that will continue the work of 

 the institute and develop the reading habit. 

 All country churches, and all country 

 schools, should also be agents in the same 

 cause. All these organizations should be 

 made distributive centers for good litera- 

 ture. They should all aid in distributing 

 the bulletins of the experiment station of 

 that state. The local library will often be 

 able to distribute the experiment station 

 bulletins much more effectively than the 

 experiment station itself, because the 

 library should know the local needs and 

 the habits of life of its constituents. 

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