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Show the rural schools and build them and keep them la shape. Ia one school a small canning outfit was built by the teacher and boys. The farmers bring their vegetables and fruit to the school plant where'they are canned. Half the product Is retained by the school to repay re-pay the cost of labor and labels. The club girls take to this thing like ducks to water. This Is the kind of education educa-tion we believe In lor fanners boys and girls. If a lot of ologie were dropped from the curriculum and work like this substituted farm life Mould be made more attractive and profitable and the titles would not draw awsy so many of our boys and girls. We hope the clubs In Millard County will grow and flourish. The teachers can have all the assistance they need from the Agricultural College Col-lege and the iK'parttnent at Washington. BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS. Now that boyt and girls clubt bave been organized la Millard County It may be Interesting to know what such clubt have accomplished elsewhere. They teem to be ttronger In the touth, aa the fifteen toutbern tUtet have 90,000 boyt and 33,000 girls enrolled In canning clubs, cotton clubt, corn clubt, poultry clubs, pig clubt and other clubt devoted to tpecial llnet of agricultural work. The northern and western states show an enrollment of 60,000 boyt and 15,000 glrlt. A girl In Tennessee made a profit of $107 from one-tenth of an acre of tomatoes and tent to the itate fair the best fresh and canned vegetables on exhibition. exhi-bition. She bad 121 different kinda of canned products on display and she up every one herself. The prize winners win-ners from each state bsve a free trip to Washington. When Washington receives re-ceives these chsmplon boys and girls It receives living exponents of sll the practice and philosophy t be U. S. le-psrtnient le-psrtnient of Agriculture has been striving striv-ing to drive Into the American farmer. Some clubs extend their operations and go la for good road contettt. The boys and girlt of the schools and clubs take half mile units in front of |