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success. 1n )[nine the Rtatc 11ndrrtook to din•et the plan. and some sC\'C'n hundred boys were put on farms; lhis year she intends to donble that munher, the success was so great. But it was in the ~Iiddlc West that boy lnhor wns most ex- tensively nsP<.l. .\ story typical of the farmers' skepticism
and of the hoys' success is told of a farmer in 13loomington
who when informed that four boys would he sent to help him '.
with his farm, exclaimed in disgust, "Four puny, cigarette- smoking pool-plavi1w kids! What can they do!" The result
'"t), answered-he•had a record crop, and has already "ordered
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