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Show TRAINING BOYS AND GIRLS TO WORK Matters of great import to the youth of the North Weber stake and inddeu-to inddeu-to the people of the stat of Utah were dlscusned vesterday afternoon after-noon at a montbh union meeting of: the stake .Mutual Improvement asso-! ciations by Professor J C Hogenson of the extension dlvirion of the Utah Agricultural college n a brief address to the officers and teachers of both organizations In their preliminary meeting Professor Hogenson brought out the necessity and Importance of individual usefulness useful-ness in life. He al6o laid much stress on the present tendency of the country coun-try youth and maid to leave their homes to seek the artificial pleasures of city life, giving as one cause for such a condition the fact that under old methods of farming it was not possible for the fathers of trowing families to give them the advantages that they needed Continuing, he said that the agricultural agri-cultural college was sending out men to interest the boys and girls in the most up to date methods of farming, floral culture and domestic science, so that they may know the reason for every effort they put forth in their daily work. Ry this means they hope to make their work i pleasure instead in-stead of a task. To this end agricultural clubs for hoys and domestic science clubs for eirls are being organized all over the state. About 3000 boys and 1000 girls are already enlisted. For the girls, bread making contents are being arranged and they are also being devised to beautify the home surroundings with flower gnrdens. Women, said the professor, stay indoors in-doors entirely too much, and If they have an incentive to keep them in the open air they will be greatly ben-el ben-el Red. Speaking to the officers of the Y. M. I a., in separate assembly. Professor Profes-sor Hogenson brought clearly before them the fact that Utah had sufficient suffi-cient natural resources, which, if properly prop-erly developed were adequate for all her sons and daughters and would make the stale oue of the greatest commonwealths in the nation. But to bring about this much desired end It j w ould require the abolition of out of i date methods of cultivation and the ' introduction of up to date methods of I scientific farming and business man-I man-I agemeut. The school and the home i must become more closely related that both may be of more practical benefit to the people in the future than they have been in the past The good results effected by the agricultural schools and their boy club movement have served to remove much of the prejudice that has existed ex-isted against them The institution of the boys' clubs in Iowa has doubled dou-bled the average yield of corn in that state in the last ten years. This good work already has been felt in Utah and the movement should grow A membership of ten is necessary to form a club and these ten should elect a president, vice president and secretary Literature pertaining to agriculture will be furnished by the college and the clubs will be visted by men capable of giving the boys instruction in-struction that will aid them In oer-COming oer-COming t lie difficulties they may meet in operating their miniature farms A minute account of the season s work must be kept by all the boys, and as) an incentive to them to put forth their best efforts a series of prizes for club. county and state competition will be arranged for The Utah state fair already al-ready has offered a prize for the best I potatoes and the sugar companies I have ottered prizes for the best sugar beets. The sugar companies also have agreed to contract with the bos fori one-half acre of beets though the I usual minimum acreage contract calls ! for two acres. For the boys in the city wards who cannot obtain the proposed pro-posed one-half acre of ground, a garden gar-den club i-om.-v i- under contemplation. |