AN ATTRACTIVE FARM HOME 



Several of these organizations have already been discussed in previous 

 sections, as, for instance, the Fruit Growers' and the Milk Producers' 

 Associations. Something of the significance of the other agricultural 

 clubs will be taken up later. For the present it will be sufficient to 

 indicate the sort of work which is undertaken by these societies. Both 

 the men's societies and those which are for both men and women combine 

 social features with the discussion of all manner of topics important to 

 their members as farmers. They give opportunity for informal meeting, 

 as well as for the exchange of ideas. The program of a meeting of one of 

 these clubs may be cited as typical. This is taken from a meeting of the 

 Home Interest Society on the night of the 26th of February last. Al- 

 though it was raining very hard sixteen members and some eight or ten 

 guests were assembled by six o'clock, some of them having driven 

 upwards of five miles. The order of the evening was as follows : 1. Sup- 

 per — the rule of the club stipulates that this shall always be a one-course 

 meal, a rule which is observed in letter but not in spirit. (We might at 

 this point interject the observation that a monumental banquet is a 

 feature of almost every gathering of this neighborhood.) 2. Music and 

 informal conversation. 3. The reading of the minutes of the last meet- 



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