448 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



order to more quickly establish new practices. As a result boys' and 

 girls' club work more successfully and more widely demonstrates 

 better practices than heretofore. 



CHOPS. 



In connection with crop work, 28,850 boys and girls were enrolled 

 in the work with corn, 3,030 with grain sorghum, 3,328 with peanuts, 

 11,781 with Irish potatoes, 2,114 with sweet potatoes, 287 with oats, 

 215 with peas, 425 with beans, 2,587 with seed cotton, 761 with wheat, 

 73,462 with garden crops, 2,550 with orchard crops, 3,848 with grapes 

 and other small fruits, and 2,870 with miscellaneous crops. The total 

 value of crops grown and reported by club members was $1,676,373. 



LIVE STOCK. 



More boys and girls (67,091) were reached through the poultry 

 project than in any other live-stock enterprise. Swine was a close 

 second, however, with an enrollment of 53,174, while 4,912 boys and 

 girls were enrolled in beef-cattle work, 8,626 in work with dairy 

 cattle. 2,392 with sheep, and 216 worked with ether live-stock enter- 

 prises. The total value of live stock and live-stock jjroducts pro- 

 duced by club members was $3,605,176. 



HOME ECONOMICS. 



Work with clothing and textiles, with an enrollment of 86,330, 

 was the most popular of the home-economics projects; canning was 

 next, with an enrollment of 52,232; and baking of bread and other 

 products third, with 31,605 enrolled. There were 2,639 enrolled in 

 drying and curing, 1,749 in brining, and 489 in storing of meats and 

 vegetables. Work with milk and milk products interested 2,776, 

 meal preparation 8,948, hot school-lunch work 4,833, while house and 

 lawn improvement enrolled 12,785. Handicraft work was carried 

 on by 1,827 boys and girls. There were also 12,010 boys and girls 

 enrolled in various activities not mentioned above. The total value 

 of home economics and miscellaneous products was $1,788,326. 

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OUTLOOK. 



That most improved phases of farm and home practices can be 

 demonstrated by boys and girls is quite generally recognized. In 

 fact, extension workers are realizing that many farm and home prac- 

 tices can be best demonstrated through boys and girls, and the 

 latter will no doubt play an increasingly important part in the 

 prosecution of the extension program in the future. 



WORK OF EXTENSION SPECIALISTS. 



Extension specialists of the State agricultural colleges have made 

 great advances in developing the work according to plans and pro- 

 grams that fit into the year's work of the county extension agents, 

 and in working out better methods of teaching and better plans 

 for influencing and changing practices through the demonstration. 

 There has been a gradual tendency to follow the needs of a county 



