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many farmers and to many boys who were aided to find pleas- 

 ant and profitable employment during their summer vacations. 

 The indirect value of the work was also considerable because 

 it gave hundreds of city boys an acquaintance with farming 

 work and farming conditions which they could not have ob- 

 tained otherwise, and in some instances was a means of turning 

 these boys toward agricultural work and toward the systematic 

 study of agriculture in the Agricultural College and elsewhere. 



