THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



idly by or look on in curiosity while investi- 

 gators work hard to throw light on a local 

 problem; and I have gone back into the 

 community years after to find the same 

 difficulties and to hear the same questions 

 as to cause and remedy. This is not fair. 



The country church 



It is not only a question of making new 

 organizations, but quite as much of re- 

 directing old ones. The country church is 

 one of the organizations that need to enter 

 new fields, or, perhaps better, to do some 

 of their work in a new way. All of us and all 

 organizations bear responsibility to soci- 

 ety, the church as much as any and perhaps 

 more than any. Rev. S. W. Pratt, in Al- 

 legany County, N. Y., suggests that "a 

 country church might organize a Farmers ? 

 Brotherhood to good advantage." There 

 are many country churches that are carry- 

 ing this responsibility. The system of 

 cooperative creameries in Minnesota grew 

 out of an organization at Clark's Grove, 

 and this parent organizatio]Acame out of 

 the local church. 



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