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STATE OF INDIANA
DEPARTMENT OF PuBLIC INSTRUCTION,
INDIANAPOLIS

DIVISION OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

Department of Agricultural Extension of Purdue
University, Federal Board for Vocational Education,
and U.S. Department of Agriculture, Co-operating

Educational Bulletin No. 54 Vocational Series No. 22

Club and Vocational ‘Training in Farming and
Home-making in Fountain County

Edward Mallett graduated from high school in the Vocational Agriculture course
in 1921. He was a club member for six years. He is now developing a purebred
Guernsey herd. This cow is the foundation animal of his herd.

Prepared under the direction of
Benjamin J. Burris
State Superintendent of Public Instruction

By
Z. M. Smith
State Supervisor of Agricultural Education

April, 1922

Wm. B. Burford, Indianapolis.

Monograph

STaTE OF INDIANA

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

INDIANAPOLIS

BensaAmMin J. Burris, Superintendent

DIVISION OF VOCATIONAL EKDUCATION
E. A. Wreipt, Director

Z. M. SMITH
Supervisor of Agricultural Education

BERTHA LATTA
Supervisor of Home Economics Education

H. G. McCOMB
Supervisor of Industrial Education

i. Be JOB
Supervisor of Rehabilitation

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
RPECEIVED

FEB? 31932

DIVISION GF DOCUMEXTS

It is with pleasure that I officially and personally endorse
club work and vocational instruction when conducted in the
manner described in this bulletin. The facts herein set out
show clearly the desirability and the value of co-operation of
all agencies in a community in formulating and carrying out
through the public schools a program of education that con-
forms to rural needs.

The principles expressed and implied in this bulletin
should be applied consistently in every community in Indiana.

BENJAMIN J. BURRIS,
State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Club and vocational work commands and receives the best thought of these three leaders.
A. J. Hesler R. H. Silverthorn
County Club Leader County Agent

Guy A. Waldrip
County Superintendent of Schools

Club and Vocational Training in Farming and Home-
making in Fountain County

This bulletin is a brief story of how Fountain County, In-
diana, is correlating farm, home and school in a manner that
is improving farm practice and home-making and is making
the school interesting to the children.

County Organization

The program is organized on a basis to avoid duplication of
workers and expenditure of funds, and to prevent the possibil-
ity of working at cross-purposes. Organizations of county-
wide scope are co-operating with unanimity in effecting a real-
ization of the aims of those who officially bear the responsibil-
ity of leadership. Among these county agencies are the county
superintendent of schools and board of education, the county
agricultural agent, the county club leader, the county fair
board, the county farm bureau, the county commissioners, the
county council, the county bankers’ association, the county
livestock breeders associations. These county organizations
are assisted by state and federal agents representing the agri-
cultural extension department of Purdue University, the
state department of public instruction, the federal board for
vocational education, and the United States Department of
Agriculture.

The program is constructed on the farm, the home and the
school problems of the county. The county needs more and
better beef cattle, dairy cattle, hogs, poultry, sheep, corn,
apples, potatoes, legumes. With the improvement in livestock
and crops is expected modern homes, consolidated schools with
high grade teachers and adequate equipment, improved roads,
churches suitable to rural needs, and a satisfying social life.

How are the boys and giris contributing to the successful
execution of this program? Their school work in agriculture
and home economics is outlined on a project basis by the
county superintendent of schools, the county agricultural
agent, the county club leader and representatives of the state
and federal offices in charge of extension and vocational work.

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For example, the projects for agriculture in the schools this
year (1921-1922) are hogs, poultry and potatoes. These are
the phases of agriculture that the farm bureau and county
agent think should be emphasized in the adult county program.
Next year the projects will deal with beef and dairy cattle,
sheep and corn. The subject matter for each project is ar-
ranged in seasonal sequence, so that each month the reference
readings, class discussions, laboratory and field work, apply
directly to the normal progress of the project as a regular
farm enterprise. For example, poultry culling is studied and
the culling is done in the fall of the year; poultry housing,
feeding and management are studied and practiced during the
fall, winter and spring months; poultry breeding, hatching,
brooding, and chick raising are studied and carried out in
practice during the spring and summer. This work is made
an integral part of the county program for securing more and
better poultry. In like manner the principle applies to all
phases of the county program.

The practical work in connection with each project is or-
ganized and carried out on a junior extension or club basis.
Each boy and girl keeps records and notes on cost and income
items, on problems connected with seed selecting and testing,
soil management, preventicn and control of diseases and pests,
canning, garment making, etc., and upon completion of the
project submits his or her record, written account, and sample
of product in competition with similar exhibits at the annual
county fair.

The county fair board, the banks, the farm bureau, and
commercial concerns, encourage the boys and girls by provid-
ing premiums for the club contests. The county commission-
ers and the township trustees supply the funds for expenditures
in connection with supervision of the club and vocational
projects. The vocational teachers supervise the projects of
pupils in the elementary grades in addition to the projects of
their high school vocational pupils. In short, all agencies in
the county are working together on the county program.

Township Organization

Co-operating with the county leaders and agencies, there is
in each township a leader and a committee. These local lead-
ers and committees personally supervise the project work of
the boys and girls and co-operate with the schools in carrying

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out the plan of providing the necessary instruction in subject
matter relating to the projects. Without the close personal
touch of local leaders and supervisors, the boys and girls fail
to measure up to their greatest possibility in achievement.
The township club contests, exhibits, short courses, achieve-
ment day programs, and school instruction are fundamentally
requisite to a successful prosecution of the county program.

Results Accomplished

Leadership. One of the outstanding and far-reaching re-
sults accomplished is the discovery and development of leaders.
Space will not permit the mention in detail of all of these lead-
ers. Naturally one’s attention is turned to the county superin-
tendent of schools. The present incumbent of that office, Mr.
Guy A. Waldrip, and his county board of education have been
consistent and loyal supporters of the county program of club
and vocational work. Mr. Waldrip says, ““We have evolved a
system that vitalizes the teaching of agriculture and home
economics. Through the club work the child does things, and
makes practical application of school instruction. We regard
the club work as a part of seventh and eighth grade agricul-
ture and home economics, and to omit it would be a step back-
ward in our scheme of education. This county is essentially
agricultural and the club work rounds out the outline of the
study that would certainly be incomplete without it.”

The office of the county agricultural agent, occupied by
three different agents since Fountain County inaugurated her
program, has filled commendably a strategic position in rela-
tion to the promotion of the club and vocational work. The
present incumbent of the county agent office, Mr. Richard
Silverthorn, is rendering invaluable service to the club and
vocational program.

The county club leader, Mr. A. J. Hesler, who has been
identified with the county program from its inception, is given
a very large share of the credit for the success of the work.
As a teacher of agriculture in the Veedersburg high school
from 1911 to 1915 and as county club leader since 1915, he
has labored tirelessly and effectively for the promotion of the
vocational and club program. Mr. William Madigan, a farmer
and banker in the county, has been from the beginning of the
work a valued advisor of the county and local leaders and has
carried his share of the responsibility as an active participant.

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Extended comment could be made consistently concerning
the excellent work done by other leaders, including Mr. Lewis
Kerr, Mr. Dan Carpenter, Mr. W. E. Brant, Mr. John Wilson,
and a score of others without whom the present degree of suc-
cess would not have been realized. Nor must we forget the
club membexs who have developed into leaders of club groups
and without whose aid a program of the present scope would
be impossible. Development of leaders is one of the outstand-
ing results accomplished through the vocational and club proj-
ect work in sewing, baking, canning, and home making.

Ada Duncan has done club work in canning, sewing, bak-
ing for the past four years. After her first year she assisted
in enrolling members and promoting the club interest. After
she had had three years experience, she became a local leader
and now has taken up leadership for the whole township in
girls’ club work. September, 1921, she was an outstanding
successful exhibitor in the canning contest at the state fair.

Edward Mallett graduated from high school in the voca-
tional agriculture course in 1921. He served in the army one
year. He was a pig club member 1915, °16,717, 18. In 1920
he completed projects in the sow and litter and corn clubs. He
was a calf club member in 1918 and has started to develop a
Guernsey herd. Has now a cow and calf. He made his ex-
penses last year in high school selling milk. His dairy inter-
est has given him a position with Purdue University where
he is now doing advance registry work. He is one of the
oldest and most consistent club members in the county.

Carl Songer will graduate from high school in June, 1922.
He has had three years’ vocational work. He expects to enter
Purdue University School of Agriculture in September, 1922.
He was state winner in the pig feeding club in 1916. At that
time he introduced the self-feeder in his township and his suc-
cess was responsible for a large number of self-feeders among
the farmers. Practically every farm in his township now has
a self-feeder. He continued his pig club work and was a con-
sistent winner from 1916 until 1920. In 1921 he fed two beef
calves. He has been a potato club winner and has demon-
strated the value of planting whole potatoes as against small
pieces of one and two eyes.

Glen Reed is now a sophomore in the vocational class in
high school. He received a pig from the Veedersburg State
Bank in 1918 and has been a prize winner for two years. He

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is especially interested in poultry and horticulture. He has
managed the home flock of poultry on a profitable basis. He
has had charge of the home orchard for three years. Last
summer he made a good profit in strawberries. He is making
a substantial enlargement of his small fruit project this year.

Swine Production. Pig feeding projects have been con-
ducted and have increased in number from year to year. Two
carloads of the prize animals in the feeding project are ex-
hibited each year at the county fair. A Fountain County club
member, Miss Frances Ray, exhibited the championship pen

Vocational and club boys visit each other’s projects under the supervision of the
vocational teacher and then get together to discuss their swine project problems,

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of fat barrows at the International Livestock Exposition at
Chicago in 1921.

Sow and litter contests have developed out of the feeding
work. The Farmers’ State Bank at Veedersburg has sup-
ported loyally both the feeding and the sow and litter projects.
The bank at Kingman has financed the sow and litter club in
the Kingman community. As a result of the club and voca-
tional work, Fountain County has increased her swine produc-
tion and has improved greatly the quality of her hogs.

“Pure-bred hogs are expected to be found on every good
farm in Fountain County. There was a time when this was
not true, and pure-bred hogs were regarded as a fancy of the
well-to-do farmer. Pig club work has proven to the average
farmer that pure-bred hogs pay. I have noted that every
grand champion of the Fountain County pig club exhibit at
Covington has been won by a pure-bred. Thousands of people
have seen this show each year and it has had a great influence
upon making Fountain County approach one hundred per cent
work in pure-bred hogs.

Five years ago, when club and vocational work was started
in our county, there were no more than five outstanding breed-
ers of pure-bred hogs in the county to supply the needs. To-
day there are more than a score of breeders endeavoring to
meet the demands of the farmer trade in pure-bred swine.
We have not only increased the number of men raising pure-
breds but have greatly improved the quality and almost doubled
the quantity of pork production.”

J. S. REED,
Breeder of Big Type Poland China Hogs,
Veedersburg.

Beef Cattle. Club members from Fountain County have
fed and exhibited two of the champion steers shown in the
junior class at the International Livestock Exposition. Miss
Clara Ray exhibited the champion steer in the junior class in
1919, and Miss Frances Ray in 1921. Mr. W. W. Layton,
president of the First National Bank at Covington says, “The
boys’ and girls’ vocational and club work with calf and pig
projects has been the means of developing livestock through-
out the county to a high quality in a much quicker way than
could have been successfully accomplished by any other
method. The good the vocational and club work has accom-

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plished in the way of educating our rising generation can
never be measured in dollars and cents. This line of work
alone has more than paid for any outlay our county has made
for maintaining our county agent office.”

“T have always been a lover of good livestock. Men start
into the beef cattle business often times with good stock. Yet
more failures than successes are a result because of the lack
of intelligent feeding and handling.

Encil Marlatt and his club leader taking the Angus to a neighboring farm to be
weighed. This was a regular monthly trip. This calf won second prize in the junior
class at the International Livestock Exposition at Chicago in 1920.

Practically every township in Fountain County has been
represented at some time in the baby beef club contest. Over
two hundred youngsters have been instructed and can produce
the goods. As a result of club and vocational work there is
more and better livestock on Fountain County farms than five
years ago. Boys’ and girls’ baby beef feeding work has been
a great incentive for better beef cattle. If the standard is to
be maintained we expect the young folks to do it. They know
how.”

DAN C. REED,
Attica.

Dairy Husbandry. “Through the vocational and club
projects pure-bred dairy cattle have been brought into the
county and farm herds developed from this foundation stock.
An importation of Guernsey heifers into the county was made
three years ago and from this beginning there has been a sub-
_ stantial development of the dairy business.

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Fountain County in years passed has not been regarded
as a dairy county, but conditions are rapidly changing in re-
gard to this industry. Some fundamentals prior to the under-
taking of dairying is being advanced by the club people.
Within the last five years the number of pure-bred dairy cattle
has doubled and a pure-bred dairy sire is now used. The test-
ing of dairy cattle for tuberculosis has also come within the
last five years. The first work of this kind was done by the
vocational class at Veedersburg three years ago. At present
we have 75 men signed up for tuberculosis test with 500 cows.
These men are lending a helping hand by using their herds to
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more dairying in Fountain County through the boys’ and girls’
club work.”
J. V. MCKNIGHT,
Veedersburg.
Orcharding.

“Orcharding in Fountain County is profitable. At least
one-half of our acreage is adaptable to fruit growing and
particularly is there a need on every farm for a home orchard.
The old home orchards have about all died out but could be
rejuvenated if taken in time. Since club work and vocational

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agriculture have been introduced into our rural schools a great
stride has been made along this line. Eighty per cent of
all old orchards now being treated are being looked after by
boys in orcharding projects in the various localities of the
county. As commercial growers we hear a lot about the dem-
onstration orchards conducted by vocational boys, and we are
sure that new orchards planted and old ones renewed will be
done in a large measure by the young people in vocational and
club work.”
COFFING BROTHERS,
Silverwood.

Corn Production.

“The Palin ear of corn a few years ago advertised Foun-
tain County far and wide as a “Corn King’? County. When
the opportunity came I moved to Fountain County to raise
corn. I found that Fountain County would produce fine corn,
and I also found that the schools and club leaders in Fountain
County were boosting better corn. As a producer of seed corn
Iam unable to supply the demand in our own county. The boy
has proven to the parent and to the community that better seed
increases the yield. Fountain County has a reputation for
good corn. Boys’ and girls’ corn club work has helped to in-
crease the quality of our corn by the disease free seed and ear
to the row work. Thru club and vocational work the reputa-
tion of Fountain County as a corn county will be maintained.”

. W. J. ULREY,
Hillsboro.

Household Management.

“There were one thousand girls’ exhibits at the county
fair in 1921, consisting of baking and canning club products
from every section of the county. It has been interesting to
me in my supervision of exhibits to note the quality of work
done by these girls. In many instances the girls have excelled
the women’s department. The friendly rivalry, the mingling
of the contestants, fixing ideals for better homes in Fountain
County was evident to the interested onlookers. Club and vo-
cational work among the girls has been a real contribution to
better rural life, better health, comfort and happiness for our
people.”

MRS. GEORGE WILLIAMS,
Secretary Women’s Division at County Fair.

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Community Development.

“Boys’ and girls’ club work in Fountain County is pri-
marily constructive. For example, in Cain Township there
were a few young people in club work. The County Leader
visited the trustee who was a firm believer in club work but
felt that he did not have a local leader. A teacher was se-
cured as leader and by the end of the second year club work
was flourishing. As a result there came a strong demand for
vocational agriculture and home economics to be taught. The
township had a consolidated school but the building was not
adequate. There was no place large enough for community
meetings. The boys were forced to travel six miles to play
basketball. The community was not united. Asa result of
one year’s work in vocational agriculture, the support of the
community was strong enough to enable the trustee to con-
struct a $100,000 addition to the school building. In addition
to rooms for vocational work, the new building contains a large
gymnasium, an auditorium with seating capacity for 1,000
people and one of the most- attractive stages seen anywhere.
The building is in almost constant use, which discloses the
fact that this community has had an awakening and is tak-
ing her place among the foremost townships.

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Another instance will serve to prove that vocational and
club work is constructive in Fountain County and has to do
largely with the shaping of its ideals. Landscaping five years
ago was almost an unheard-of thing in the county. The result
of work done at the Veedersburg High School Building has
reached numerous localities of the county. School yards are
being landscaped and country churches are taking it up.

A very important undertaking along this line was the land-
seaping of the county court house yard at Covington. An ap-
peal for aid to the county commissioners was made in 1921
thru the County Agent’s office. Aid was given and the plant-
ing has been done.

Gardner Crane’s poultry house at the beginning of his poultry project, and the
house built after a year’s experience in poultry project work.

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A more recent development is the interest of the club folks
in the new state highway. An effort is being made to secure
and maintain a beautiful highway. Negotiations are now
under way to obtain uniform fencing throughout the county
along this highway.

Surely the results club work has brought about, and will in
the future bring about, will at least make Fountain County a
better place in which to live.”

WILLIAM WRIGHT,
Hillsboro.

Excerpts from Statements Concerning the Vocational and
Club Work in Fountain County

“The teaching of vocational subjects in local high schools
over Fountain County has been going forward with increased
interest. A survey which was made recently disclosed the fact
that over 50% of the pupils are from the country and that
more than 77% of the pupils in a ten-year period have re-
turned to the home community to reside. The fact that 50%
of all pupils who graduate from high school return to their
home community, to say nothing of the mass of young people
who do not enter high school from that community, is evi-
dence that vocational education has a place in Fountain
County and should share equally with academic subjects in
preparing boys and girls for the thing they will eventually do.
Veedersburg is meeting the vocational problems in a fine way.
Twenty-nine per cent of the Veedersburg high pupils are en-
rolled in vocational courses.

Comparing the Veedersburg community with a neighbor-
ing township we find that in the former where consolidated
schools, vocational education and club work are strongly sup-
ported the tax rate is not as high as in the latter where one-
room schools are maintained and no vocational work is done.

The club work more than pays the cost of its maintenance.
For the year 1921 there were 511 club members that completed
their projects and made reports. These boys and girls pro-
duced $22,900 worth of products at a profit of $9,017.00. The
amount paid for county and township club supervision was
$4,208.00, leaving a net balance to the county of $4,808.00.

Club and vocational work and consolidated schools are
proving to be the solution of the farm and home problems
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the right attitude toward agriculture as a basic industry is
being created, and rural leadership is being developed. In
Van Buren Township, which maintains consolidated schools
and a strong program in club and vocational work, 47% of all
pupils graduated from high school in the last five years have
gone to college to prepare in a better way for rural life, as com-
pared with 15% in the township with one-room schools and a
meager club program.”
A. J. HESLER,
County Club Leader.

“Agriculture and home economics in the schools have revolu-
tionized the school into a vital community social institution in
which all professions have been interested. The society of
which our boys and girls are members is a democracy that
must have leaders which it continually develops. One illustra-
tion of the democratic character of club work is the annual
club picnic. It has attracted the attention of all classes of
people, who come together in one common interest. The many
hundreds mingled together each year creates a bond of fellow-
ship and a sympathetic understanding which will make for
proper relations in the future.

Agricultural education in Fountain County is to have a
prominent place in the future considering the fact that over
2,000 boys and girls have taken part in club activities in the
last five years. Tho many of them have not gained promi-
nence, yet these boys and girls make up the masses who will
in the days to come determine the policy of rural education and
community development.”

WM. MADIGAN,
Farmer and Banker.

“Club work by our boys and girls is fundamental to suc-
cessful farming and home-making. Fountain County boys
and girls are securing training and experience through club
and vocational work that will make them successful as tenant
farmers, and as farm owners. The project work is an im-
portant part of the school program in agriculture and home
economics.”

VERNON BABB,
Tenant Farmer.

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“Our township is very enthusiastic over the club and voca-
tional work our children are doing. Our vocational work is
under the direction of Mr. Foster D. Poe, an enthusiastic,
hard working, conscientious Purdue alumnus. He is training
our boys to be lovers of the land instead of lovers of the city.”

W. E. BRANT,
Township Trustee.

Vocational and club boys building houses for use in swine project work.

“Mrs. Smith and I consider the greatest asset we have been
blessed with is our boys and girls. We do not try to teach our
children that education is a preparation for life, but rather
that education is life itself. Therefore, we believe in and wel-
come boys’ and girls’ club work, and hope it will continue to
grow in our county.”

Roy E. SMITH.

“There is nothing that is doing more toward the building
of a sound and stable agriculture in our county than boys’
and girls’ club work. The plan and its execution have been
highly satisfactory. Our organization has the heartiest en-
couragement and recommendations for the work being done in
the boys’ and girls’ clubs.”

McM. COoFFING,
Secretary-Treasurer County Farm Bureau.

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There were 1,000 girls’ club exhibits in sewing, baking and
canning at the county fair in 1921. These exhibits occupied
two-thirds of the space in the Arts Building.

The pictures on these two pages tell the story of the rapid
increase in the number of club livestock exhibits at the county
fair:

This tent housed the first boys’ and girls’ club exhibits of livestock at the Fountain
County Fair.

The second year the club livestock exhibits at the County Fair required a teat
60 feet by 100 feet.

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This pavilion 60 feet by 100 feet was constructed by the county fair board to take
the place of the tent used for club livestock exhibits,

The club livestock exhibits at the county fair increased from year to year until
a second pavilion the size of the first was required,

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“T have observed the results of club work in our county.
In one instance the county leader influenced two boys to enter
the Shorthorn heifer club, and under his guidance they have
developed the foundation stock for a good herd of cattle. These
boys expect to continue their club work and in this way make
enough money to finance themselves through college. This is
just one sample of the splendid work that is being accom-
plished through club work in our county.”

H. K. BILSLAND,
President County Shorthorn Breeders Assn.

“In years to come the real worth of club work will be shown
in the efficiency of men and women who received training
through this work in our county.”

WARREN H. RANDOLPH.

“The value of the club work the boys and girls of our
county are doing can not be measured in dollars and cents.
While as a rule club work shows a profit from the financial
side, yet its greatest value is in teaching the boy or girl to
see. To be able to know when to do a thing and how to do it
is one of the greatest blessings of a boy or girl.

Club work promotes the social and moral welfare of the
child. It promotes good fellowship and cultivates the desire
to possess that which is best, be it a calf, pig, canned goods or
an apron. The desire for good things is not only created in

One group of baby beeves exhibited at the Fountain County Fair by vocational
and club boys and girls.

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the club member but it is extended to the mother and father

and to the community at large.”
C. M. FLOREY.

“The club work being done by our boys and girls is to my
mind the best means yet employed to dignify labor and make
better home-makers of the present and coming generations.”

VIOLA G. BAKER,
Editor Veedersburg News.

“In my opinion it is impossible to gauge in dollars and
cents the value of the boys’ and girls’ club work in Fountain
County. One can not place a dollar mark on an ideal. If one
puts up against the cost of our club work the ideals of the boys
to raise better livestock and to feed it more economically, to
plan the farms they will sometime own and to adopt thereon
a system of crop rotation, and the ideals of the girls to make
_ better homes, then the credit side of the ledger will show a
most amazing balance in its favor.”

A. H. LINDLEY,
State Senator.

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