1 84 THE FARMER AND THE NEW DAY 



help and planning through a community council. A 

 definite long-term plan of development was worked out 

 by the community. A cooperative association was or- 

 ganized among the farmers and has been of great 

 value to the town. The volume of business done by 

 the association increased from a little less than $10,000 

 in 1914 to nearly $40,000 in 1917. An orchard prun- 

 ing and spraying campaign was undertaken. This 

 reached most of the orchards in the town and the result 

 was a new and lasting interest in fruit growing. The 

 local demonstration farm became the center for poultry 

 breeding stock, and a community breed was adopted. 

 The dairy farmers have been interested in purebred 

 cattle and the number owned in the town has been in- 

 creased many fold, most farms carrying the same 

 breed. Provision was made for carrying on club work 

 among the boys and girls of the town, and canning 

 clubs, home economics clubs, Boy Scouts and Camp- 

 Fire Girls have been organized. A landscape archi- 

 tect was secured to work out a plan for the develop- 

 ment of the common, and this plan is being followed 

 carefully. Various community celebrations have been 

 held and a special community day offered an oppor- 

 tunity for an exhibition of purebred dairy and poultry 

 stock. 



Durham, Cal., is a community built from its incep- 

 tion upon a definite plan. Established under Cali- 

 fornia's land settlement act, provision is made by the 

 state for all social and economic development of the 

 community. Soil experts selected the location and de- 

 termined the most desirable size of holding. Archi- 

 tects prepared the plans and specifications for suitable 

 homes, and the building projects were supervised by 

 the state, relieving the individual settlers of that bur- 



