THE YOUNG FARMER 



the people. This subject need not be dis- 

 cussed merely in the abstract. There are 

 in every community concrete evidences of 

 these forces. There is the rural church. 

 There is the rural school. In many locali- 

 ties are to be found, also, buildings, for 

 social and fraternal purposes, as grange 

 halls, structures for holding fairs and pic- 

 nics. These are tangible evidences that 

 there are rural agencies at work in the com- 

 munity whose chief purpose is to increase 

 the educational advantages, the social 

 opportunities and the moral aspirations of 

 the people. 



How are these existing rural forces to be 

 made more effective? If co-operation in 

 financial affairs is essential under modern 

 conditions, it is more needed in social mat- 

 ters. Such co-operation does not imply that 

 these separate forces shall be fused into a 

 single one. Each of them has its particular 

 and peculiar work to do, but each should 

 work in harmony and not in the spirit of 

 antagonism with the others. 



There should be formed in each locality 

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