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at all times to take part in the program and present briefly some 

 development in their particular line of work. This plan has been 

 found to help very much in getting up good, live programs. 



COOPERATIVE EFFORT FOSTERED 



Some of the following undertakings may well be fostered by 

 the farmers' club. The producers in a community should decide 

 on one variety of potatoes or other market crop to produce, and 

 then find some way of marketing it jointly. One or two leading 

 breeds of each kind of live-stock should be adopted by the club. 

 Pure-bred sires may be purchased and used cooperatively, to the 

 advantage of every one. Feed, flour, cement, and other supplies 

 that can be handled in large lots, may be purchased cooperatively, 

 usually at a considerable saving. 



The question of organizing a live-stock shipping association is 

 worth considering where live-stock is an important factor. 

 Home conveniences and a beef club for supplying fresh meat 

 should be considered. When dairying is important, the organ- 

 ization of a cow-testing association is valuable. In any neigh- 

 borhood, community effort along the line of road improvement 

 is worth very careful consideration. Such matters as organ- 

 izing a creamer}^ cheese factory, or farmers' elevator, the 

 purchase of a stallion, or the introduction of a general drainage 

 system for the community, should be considered by the club 

 and acted upon only after all the facts in the case are known. 

 One of the latest attempts of a farmers' club is to organize a 

 cooperative laundry in connection with a cooperative creamery. 

 In short, every enterprise connected with the farms, homes, or 

 schools may be profitably considered by the club. 



DECLARATION OF PURPOSES OF THE PATRONS OF 

 HUSBANDRY * 



PREAMBLE 



PROFOUNDLY impressed with the truth that the National Orange 

 of the United States should definitely proclaim to the world its 



i From a pamphlet issued by the Grange. 



