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the young people in our schools will remain in the com- 

 munity in which they were born and reared, and it is 

 their duty and their right to become acquainted in 

 school with some of the affairs of their mature life. 



Our government and 

 agricultural colleges are 

 willing to send, for the 

 most part free of charge, 

 attractive and helpful 

 bulletins that will ex- 

 plain in detail every 

 difficult farm operation. 

 Children in the country 

 should learn to profit by 

 the ideas found in these 

 bulletins. Men study 

 agriculture, 1 just as they 

 study law or medicine, 

 and farmers need a 

 special education in their 

 walk of life to be en- 

 tirely successful. 



29. Cooperation among 

 Farmers. About half 

 the farmers of the United 

 States belong to cooper- 

 ative societies. These societies operate irrigation plants, 

 insurance companies, telephones, creameries, laundries, 

 cheese factories, grain elevators, farmers' banks, and so 



CAUGHT ! 



Mice and rats are common carriers of 

 disease germs. 



1 The farm management department of Cornell University gathered data 

 recently relative to the labor income of more than thirteen hundred New 

 York farmers. The University found that the labor income of the farmers 

 who had completed the eighth grade only was 318 per year; of those with 

 a high school training was $622 per year; while the farmers with a college 

 course received 847 per year. The investigation made by the United 



