PKOGRESS IN AGEICULTURAL EDUCATION. 

 Records of State prize winners, 1910. 



337 



Winners. 



Number 

 of 

 culti- 

 vations. 



Hughey Harden, Alabama 



Ira Smith, Arkansas 



Joseph Stone, Georgia 



Stephen Henry, Louisiana 



Wilham Williams, Mississippi. . 

 Ernest Starnes, North Carolina 



Floyd Gayer, Oklahoma 



Jerry Moore, South CaroUna — 



Maurice Olgers, Virginia 



Norman Smith, Tennessee 



Rodger Smith, Te.xas 



Archie Odom, South Carolina. 

 John Williams, Alabama 



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The club movement has been developmg in other parts of the 

 United States longer than in the South, but m no large section has it 

 made more rapid progress. One of the most fully organized States 

 is Nebraska, where boys' and girls' club work has been active for a 

 half dozen years at the least. The variety of w^ork done in that State 

 is indicated by the following topics taken from bulletins of instruc- 

 tion prepared by the faculty of the college of agriculture and sent 

 by the State department of public mstruction to members of the 

 clubs : "Course in cookery for Nebraska girls' domestic science clubs," 

 "General outline of plans for the Nebraska boys and girls' club," "How 

 to test seed corn," "Directions for planting the ear to row test with 

 corn," "The size of seed piece experunent with potatoes," "Sugges- 

 tions on acre contest and sweet pea culture," " Directions for sewing," 

 "Recipes for cooking," "Sweet pea culture for Nebraska boys and girls' 

 club," and "Some common weeds and insects of Nebraska cornfields 

 and potato patches." 



In Massachusetts potato clubs were organized m 1908 by Prof. 

 W. R. Hart, of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. The first 

 year there were about 600 club members, in 1910 there were 5,200, 

 this year over 10,000. Each boy who wishes to join a club writes a 

 letter promising to plant, cultivate, and dig the potatoes without any 

 help. In return for this promise he receives four seed potatoes and a 

 chance to contest for a prize. 



Prof. Hart is also directing a "potato-culture club" or "experunent 

 club" of about 200 members, who are engaged in selecting potatoes 

 for the purpose of improving the quality and increasing the yield. 

 The best tubers from the liighest yielding hills are planted each year, 

 and the result is an improved tuber both as to edibility and pro- 

 ductiveness. 



And so the movement is developing, with a great variety of enter- 

 prises and a rapid increase in club membersliip. In Oregon there 



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