THE YOUNG FARMER 



problems. Some method must be devised 

 for exchanging the books or magazines. 

 Whether they are exchanged at the church, 

 the grange hall or through the school chil- 

 dren will depend upon local conditions 

 requiring a community committee to decide. 



This community committee will do some- 

 thing more than reach immediate results. 

 It may project its influence far into the 

 future. Not all of life is comprised in a 

 porcelain bathtub and nickel adornments. 

 Nevertheless modern methods of heating 

 and plumbing are desirable in the country 

 as well as in the city. In Indiana there is 

 a one-room school building. In the base- 

 ment there has been placed a furnace and 

 a gasoline engine. The engine is used not 

 only to teach the boys how to run a gasoline 

 engine, but it makes possible a modern sys- 

 tem of plumbing. 



It is well known that many of the states 

 within the past decade have voted to abolish 

 or very materially restrict the sale of alco- 

 holic beverages. No great temperance ora- 

 tors have roused the people as was the case 

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