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Show 5!KM) BOYS, GIKLS ENROLL IN UTAH FOUK-H CLLBS A. total of 5759 boys, girls voting men and young womer were enrolled in junior and sen ior 4-H club work during the past summer in addition to 141 who completed various project: during the winter of 1935, re-ports re-ports D. P. Murray and Miss Myrtle Myr-tle Davidson, state club leader: of the Utah State Agricultura. college. This makes a total of 5 9 0C club members enrolled during the fiscal year 1935, an increase ol 64S over 1934. About eighty per cent of this number will complete com-plete their projects, the leaders said. The club groups have been led by S47 volunteer local men and women who have received then instructions from the county and state Extension Service. The program is classified as junior, including young folks 12 to 16 years of age who enroll in definitely outlined projects as, foods, clothing, livestock, crops, garden, poultry, forestry, pheasants, pheas-ants, and turkeys, supplemented by reading, organized recreation, educational and nature hikes, music, mu-sic, demonstrations, judging and exhibits. The senior, better known as the Farm and Home Science groups, involves the young man and woman from 16 years of age and older who have begun tc think for themselves; are interested inter-ested in the opposite sex, have begun to make collections of plans and ideas to be mounted in scrap book for the future, and who are interested in personal appearance and charm. These groups select projects relating to their interests and needs with occasional joint sessions ses-sions for the discussion of such subjects as vocations, economic problems controlling life's vocational voca-tional decisions, book reviews, music, tours, camp fires, exhibits, demonstrations, judging, choosing a partner, recreation, etc. All young men and women having any income are encouraged to begin a saving account. They are taught to budget, and to know something relative to costs and values. The junior club work is included in-cluded in the extension program in twenty-five counties, eighteen of them, also having fifty Home Science groups. Extra features of the 19 3 5 club program included a renewal of exhibits and contests at the Utah State Fair and a three-day short course at the agricultural college where 116 representative Farm and Home Science members from twenty counties met in discussion groups with Eugene Merritt, extension ex-tension economist. The discussions discus-sions dealt with relationships, vocations vo-cations and plans for the future of the members involved. Quality of work has been emphasized em-phasized in all 4-iH projects. The results of this was evident in the 4-H sheep exhibits at the 1935 state fair. Club members did well in the open classes, showing show-ing against the experienced breeders breed-ers of the state and surrounding states. |