The small farmer in the South is not a social being, and anything which makes for cooperation is valuable.
The poultry clubs which were an extension of the canning club idea have been successful.

The club idea, indeed, has been extended beyond the limits of the South.

Congress, recognizing its value, has taken over and extended the work and has supported it liberally.

Today market-garden clubs for the manufacturing cities, potato clubs, mother-and-daughter clubs, and perhaps others have grown out of the vision of Dr.Knapp.
Though these activities have had a great effect in improving the South, that section has not yet been transformed into an Eden.

In spite of farm demonstrations, experiment stations, and boys' and girls' clubs, the stubborn inertia of a rural population fixed on the soil has only been shocked, not routed.