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Show f part of the co-oi erative extension i ;; jr. j ni in e'-'ury state. !" Thrci'ii t!:e clabs community life ! ; ..(, r:i'.-s y-Qi'Ialize'l and affords young j i ') !e a real motive for their work, j T.-.py are trained through them for lead-j lead-j eihi and are taught that it is much il.'-'ter to be the owner of farm lands, ar.ii'-.al-, machinery, crops and house-li'dd house-li'dd equipment than it is to work for a -tared waire in a city office or factory. The federal and state governments in 1U1S employed Pb-j club leaders to.su-1 to.su-1 perintend the hoys' and girls' club work 1 in various states, while several hun-! hun-! dred more were employed during the J summer. An average of ten projects piT btate was conducted last year under tiie supervision of the club organization. organiza-tion. Certified reports were submitted in 11)18 by . 7-14,703 boys and girls in the clubs. Total quantities produced by these junior farmers were: 313,77S.7 bushels of corn, 616,503 bushels potatoes, pota-toes, 2,0S7.9S3.7 - square rods of home garden; vegetables, fruit, meat and soup ; canned, 3,471, 01S quarts; made 34),5S7 ;,jars jelly, dried 40,874 pounds fruit and vegetables; mother-daughter canning, j 00,1 75 quarts fruits, .vegetables, meat i and soups; 29,437'ars jelly; 2125 pounds dried products; 22,399 tons sugar beets; 'poultry, 70,270 laying hens; 437,430 j chicks hatched; 165,935' dozen eggs; j baby beef, 1426 animals managed, 920,-442 920,-442 pounds beef produced; pigs raised, 16,220,277 pounds pork; bread, 539,905 loaves baked; 7197 dozen muffins; garment gar-ment clubs, 291,012 garments made and i repaired; handicraft club, 4300 pieces handicraftjg.dairy calf club, 3073 calves raised; home economics, 1297 dishes 'prepared, 616 meals served; sheep clubs, 8005 lambs raised, 32,653 pounds mutton; mut-ton; beans, 4974 bushels; rabbits, 26,322 raised. Under the club plan, the boys and girls arc having fun in the country and are making money at the same time. Since these two things which have given the city its lure are now to be found in multiplied form in rural sections, there is every reason to believe that the aim of the promoters to keep the young folks on the farms will be realized. RURAL CLUB WORK. Eoys' and girls' clubs in tllo country-are country-are meeting with astonishing success, according to reports received by the department of agriculture, which inaugurated in-augurated the plan a few years'ago. The design of the movement was to make country life more attractive so attractive, at-tractive, in fact, that the exodus of youn men and young women from the farms to the cities Vnould not only be stayed, but also that a migration from city to country should eventually ful-low ful-low Farm work loses drudgery and becomes be-comes something like a game under the club method. These clubs set standards stand-ards of achievement in home activities and dignify common labor. Hoys and girfs, botli rural and urban, have their point of view changed so that they become be-come eager to make further preparation prepara-tion and study in the hn?;u'-s oT fanning fann-ing and home making. The work is as permauent as the public' school system, because it is backed by permanent institutions, insti-tutions, federal and state, and is a doi'i- |