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Show HOYS' and GIRLS' C1.VP.S The object of boys' and girls' club work is to conduct demonstration with boys and girls in farm and ir home activities, including projects In field crops and farm animals: ie sowing, health and home management manage-ment including conking: to tench them how to manage, grow, prepare, and market crops and animals i through local leadership, and full instructions in-structions essential to success in the work; and to awaken the interest inter-est in our boys and girls in farm an home activities; to train the hainds and minds by productive supervised su-pervised employment. Club work places emphasis on the best in agriculture agri-culture and home making in the various var-ious communities where it is properly prop-erly conducted. It is educational in the broadest sense of the term in that it enables boys and girls to put tato actual practice the things which they have learned in school. It is a useful and practical education. They learn the "whys" "hows" andi "whens" as well as to improve their practices and increase their remuneration through systematic, orderly and efti-ciernt efti-ciernt methods. The dominating spirit of boys' and girls' club work is to make the work that the participants do both profitable and pleasant. iver the faces of the glorious student body in the Agricultural Agri-cultural college recently the thought came to me that certainly no parent that could know what a training from such a school would mean would hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices in ordier that he be num bered among the proud parents of a graduate of such an institution. What heritage could one leave to a son or daughter that would be of more benefit or (of which he would be more proud. Among the faces in that audience were young men and oiwig women who hale from Beaver county, and are studying night and day in order to put an education within the reach of those boys and girls. Talk to those parents today, tomorrow, next spring, or in ten years from now and see if there is anything for which they have ever worked from which they have gained an equal satisfaction. Talk to the. students and see if there is anything any parent could give them that would yield greater returns either in satisfaction or in material things. When we ship cattle to the opeu market they are judged largely according ac-cording to the finish they have. An unfinished, hog brings an unfinished' price. An untrained colt going into the market is judged according to "'e work for which he is fitted. When a boy or girl, man or woman roes into the market to sell his or Per labors, the first question is, 'what can you do'? 'What have you ' ad?" And remuneration is based accordingly. Would not now be a good time to start preparing to send the twelve or fi rteen-year-old son or daughter to college? What farmer in Beaver county could not spare the use of an ace of ground with water on which the student could grow some cash crop, the returns to put on savings a college fund. Some boys and girls may prefer to join a pig club, -a f club, or poultry el.ib; or some s;.-ls may limit themselves to the r-o-ne activities. Mor ethan 600.000 i -., and girl.: in the United States wre actunllr engaged in club work '-. year. Cer-Irlnly Cer-Irlnly all of these bo-.'s and girls and their parents are n l making a i,"i : I nk e. Club work mi).-) r ive some beneficial results. If it had no merits, mer-its, participants gained nothing from it. then it wouldi not ho so firmly firm-ly established in practically every c rnly in the United States and enrollment en-rollment would be on the decrease iisread of the increase. Parents, what do you say? Is your son or daughter going t0 join those ranks of progression, and help himself or her- If to enter college hotter fitted both financially and intellectually in-tellectually for the competition that follows? Students completing the project ca-n be awarde 1 r"i go credit according ac-cording to the merits of the work. County Agent. . |