INFLUENCE OF A SINGLE FARM COMMUNITY. 



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into the city occasionally to attend a good concert or play. Vaca- 

 tions among the farmers of this community seem always to have 

 been the rule rather than the exception. (See fig. 19.) 



ADVANCED METHODS OF FARMING. 



Along every line of their chief occupation, agriculture, the people 

 of the Belleville community have been alert, taking up each worthy 



Fig. 21. — Map of the smaller community, showing farms on which two, three, or four generations of the 

 same family have lived. Small dot indicates two generations, medium dot three generations, and large 

 dot four generations. 



new discovery and movement with enthusiasm. At an early date 

 the Belleville community had a local agricultural fair and took an 

 .important part in the county fair. Individual farmers in the com- 

 munity were among the strongest supporters for a State fair and a 

 State policy for farmers' institutes. Belleville itself had a farmers' 

 institute for many years, and was the first community in the county 

 to hold a farm woman's institute, just as it was the first to introduce 

 into its high-school curriculum a complete course of agriculture. 



