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Show WORK FOR FARMERS' CLUB One of Most Effective Agencies In Developing De-veloping Community Social, Educational Edu-cational and Economic. One of the well established facts la that the development of a community must come from within. Outside agencies may give the start but the people of the community must supply the constant energy needed in carrying carry-ing on the development. Farmers' clubs are one of the most effective agencies in developing a community, com-munity, says Farmers Mail and Breeze. There were but few of them until the county agents began their work. They not only started the farmers' clubs but kept in touch with them, giving suggestions and aiding In arranging and providing programs. These farmers' clubs are enlisting the people of the community in Improvement Im-provement work of the most vital kind. It is social, educational and economic, in a way bringing back the social life that used to be supplied in the husking bee, the barn raising, the singing school and the spelling school; educational, in that most of the numbers of the program are on farm,, home and kindred topics, and economic, In that the members of the club are coming to see that the farm products are worth more when a considerable con-siderable quantity of uniformly high quality is produced in the community, which means community planning In production. This is one of the most effective means of increasing the returns. re-turns. Straw Aids Potatoes. If you -have more straw than you know what to do with, try some on the potato ground. Plow it under. It will give you a nice, loose soil, and the dryest, mealiest potatoes you ever ate. "CREDIT" FARMER NEEDS j National philanthropy for the ( farmer Is neither necessary or X desirable. The chief "credit" 4 ? which the American farmer $ needs Is the credit for having common sense and normal de- j I sires for a pleasing and satisfy- ing life on the farm. j J Point out by example the ben- J efit that will naturally accrue ; I to all If he will merely help J himself by working with his J neighbors, both In town and country, and you will go a long way toward solving the rural ? and social problem, the rural ; economic problem and, fnci- $ 1 cidentally, a most important J 1 national problem. J If the American people will ? 2 learn to live with the farmer 2 i instead of trying to live off the 2 i farmer, the entire business of I i agriculture will have received s a moft stimulating redirection 2 D. A. Wallace |