i 4 8 THE FARMER AND THE NEW DAY 



the use of pure bred sires, all of the same breed, and 

 also to put their business on a more substantial basis 

 through cooperation. It has educational advantages 

 as well as enabling breeders to cooperate in buying and 

 selling. The development of many of the great breeds 

 of pure bred live stock owe their origin and develop- 

 ment to community breeding. This is true of Jersey, 

 Guernsey, Ayreshire and Holstein cattle and Percheron 

 horses. The methods of apple growers of Hood River 

 Valley, of the Rocky Ford melon growers, of the po- 

 tato growers of Greeley, Colo., are all illustrations of 

 the advantages gained when an entire community de- 

 votes its energy to that definite line of production for 

 which it is best adapted. This principle is recognized 

 by manufacturers, and we have shoe cities and automo- 

 bile cities and jewelry cities. It is difficult to exag- 

 gerate the advantages that accrue when a community of 

 farmers sets out to bring production to this common 

 basis, each farmer seeking to do his best and all work- 

 ing together along a common line. Community pro- 

 duction does not mean that a given community will 

 grow only one crop it will grow whatever crops can 

 be best grown in that community, but whatever it does 

 grow will be pushed to the limit. Standards will be set 

 up. Quality will be sought. There is a common pur- 

 pose and a common gain. 



Farm Management. Even in the matter of farm 

 management apparently a very individual affair 

 the most significant results come from an effort of a 

 whole community to improve methods. Extension 

 workers in farm management have already found that 

 if they make a survey of all the farms in the community, 

 they will find that certain farms are below the average 

 in their labor and income. This is the significant point. 



