better varieties of field crops and other plants, and in lietter methods of 

 cultivation and farm management generally. 



A County Y. M. C. A. Secretary, such as the International Committee 

 is placing in many counties throughout the United States would be a 

 great aid in assisting the boys and young men of the county. Such an 

 officer could help not only in preparing the young people for their church 

 life but also in developing the recreational and social life of the entire 

 county, and would greatly reflect on production by leading to better 

 farming. 



Many more of the farm youths of the county should attend agricultural 

 colleges, mainly to return and be the leading farmers, but in part to 

 return and help to build up a system of local and agricultural high schools 

 and country life educational, social, and economic organizations for the 

 entire county. Likewise many more farm girls should attend schools 

 which prepare girls for the farm home, for teaching home making in 

 the consolidated rural school, and for leadership in the rural community. 

 The splendid blood of the white population of Montgomery County, 

 its good soil and its superb market facilities present possibilities for a 

 wonderful country life community. If the entire county could be so 

 improved as to average as well as the best communities in the eastern 

 part of the county, the claim could be made that Montgomery County 

 is fast becoming the model country life county of the United States. 

 The City of Washington and the governments of the state and of the 

 nation can well afford to encourage both the suburban and rural parts 

 of Montgomery County to become models as places for family homes 

 for that portion of the people with best heredity, who, by multiplying 

 more rapidly than the average can dominate the blood of the future 

 nation. Montgomery County will continue to be proud of the strong 

 people it sends into the city because upon its farms will continue to 

 remain a portion of the best blood of America. Its splendid home and 

 social life are the best agencies for building up its system of economic 

 production. But the homes need to be better supplemented by the 

 consolidated and rural high schools, by more clubs, granges, and farmers 

 district leagues, welded into a county federation by a county Y. M. C. A., 

 a county Y. W. C. A., and a bureau of county farm experts. The 

 opportunities for doing team work and securing national and state 

 recognition and help in building up the farms, the homes and country 

 life generally, are not excelled by any county in the country. Mont- 

 gomery county, like every other county must double its product, because 

 double the nation's population must be fed, and the above suggestions 

 have a large relation to how to bring this about. 



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