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THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



"When firmly united on correct principles, 

 a community of farmers can accomplish 

 anything within reason in the regulation 

 of production, labor, markets, schools, 

 churches, and general betterment. They 

 should seldom organize merely to oppose or 

 expose the existing conditions, even though 

 these conditions are bad, but gradually, by 

 careful study and systematic action, to 

 bring a new condition out of the old. 



The educational results of organized ef- 

 fort must not be overlooked. Many boys 

 and girls have been put in the way of im- 

 proving themselves by the local grange, 

 pomological society, or other club or so- 

 ciety. 



Organized effort becomes an active 

 means of real training of farmers, a kind 

 of community school. There are localities 

 in which organizations of one kind or an- 

 other have transformed the life of the 

 region. 



The farm home is a democracy 



The farmer really has the very best 

 school in cooperative democracy in his own 

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