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Show I Horn? Top ITMpsT LOOK TO COMMUNITY'S JIEEDS What Has Been Accomplished at Fort Scott, Kansas, May Be Cited as Case In Point naif a dozen years ago there were two years when the wheat around Fort Scott did not come to harvest and, as wheat was the only product of the community the town was left flat. Even the merchants closed their stores and moved away. The chamber of commerce decided that the community needed more diversity di-versity of production. It studied the situation and decided that the dairy industry in-dustry would fit logically into its scheme. The farmers owned only scrub cattle, but despite this the chamber cham-ber went-down to Kansas City and induced the big milk users to establish three shipping stations in the Fort territory. The farmers were much surprised to find that they could get money for milk which formerly bad been used only as swill for hogs. Then the chamber of commerce took Its second step. It organized an excursion ex-cursion and took forty of its most progressive formers to that part of Wisconsin where the dairy Industry Is most highly developed. It showed them Just what first-class dairy farms end Qrst-class dairy cattle were and how such an enterprise Is properly operated. But the chamber did not stop here. It raised enough money to buy a train-load train-load of the best milk cows It could find In the United States, had them shipped to Fort Scott and sold to the farmers at cost, which was less than the price they would hnve had to pay If they had bought Individually. Last year this community sold half a million mil-lion dollars' worth of milk alone. That wealth would not hnve come to Fort Scott but for the sale of milk. It will be spent among the business people peo-ple who make up Its chamber of commerce. com-merce. The country roundabout has jast completed the laying of 225 miles of Improved roads, a thing that the farmers had formerly refused to finance. The whole community Is transforming itself. All of which conies of taking thought of community needs and proceeding to supply them. |