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During 1916, 160 cooperative club leaders conducted 1,534 dem- 

 onstrations in home canning and food conservation. At these dem- 

 onstrations there was an attendance of 20,860 club members, 53,565 

 visiting men and women, and 14,152 boys and girls other than club 

 members, a total of 88,577. The club leaders visited 12,698 club plats. 

 In addition to this, local club plats were supervised by 4,367 volunteer 

 club leaders. 



A total of 2,083,606 copies of printed follow-up instructions was 

 furnished to club leaders and club members during the year. This 

 material was about equally divided between that supplied by the 

 State agricultural colleges and the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, and was in the main instructional matter intended espe- 

 cially for boys and girls enrolled in the regular club-project work. 



The club Avork has gradually improved its organization for the 

 proper supervision and direction of the work. There has been a 

 steady tendency toward organizing members into club groups and 

 having them work as such. Twenty-six of the 28 States, or 5 more 

 than during 1915, reported that they were working definitely to per- 

 fect the work through organized club groups with leaders in charge. 



The number of club members enrolled during- 1916 was 198,759. 

 Of this number 59,236 members completed all work, including mak- 

 ing a report of the season's activities to the State club leader. How- 

 ever, 85,324 members actually did the work, although a part of this 

 number failed to make complete reports at the close of the season. 

 The 59,236 members completing all the work produced $922,766.73 

 worth of products during the season, at an estimated cost, exclusive 

 of overhead supervision, of $332,836.07, leaving a net profit of $589,- 

 930.66. These figures include payment to the members for the time 

 expended in their work. A total of $157,304.75 was expended for 

 -local, county. State, and National overhead supervision for club 

 work. This is a supervision cost of 79 cents per club member en- 

 rolled, and 2.65 per club member making report on the completed 

 season's activities. 



In the corn-club work, 985 clubs were organized in 24 States in 

 1916, with an enrollment of 14,400. Final and complete reports were 

 made by 3,918 members, who cared for 9,712 acres. On this acreage 

 members produced 523,110.8 bushels of corn, the members invested 

 $142,867.37, including rent of land, cost of members' own labor, and 

 all other items of expense. The average investment per member 

 making final complete report was $36.46, or 27.3 cents per bushel of 

 corn produced. 



Twenty-three States organized garden and canning clubs in 1916. 

 The 1,160 garden and canning clubs had an enrollment of 24,254 

 members, of which 7,903 reported having canned 201,305.5 quarts of 

 products, an average of 25.47 quarts per member. The total cost to 

 members reporting was $28,126.61, an average of $3.56 per member. 



In the pork and crop production club work in 1916, 25 States or- 

 ganized 3,174 members in 800 clubs. The members managed 5,300 

 animals, producing 728,411 pounds of pork, worth $85,762.04. It 

 cost $42,675.58 to produce this pork, leaving a net profit to the mem- 

 bers of $43,086.46. 



During the year ended June 30, 1917, there was a total en- 

 rollment of 406,636 members of regularly organized clubs. In 

 addition to this about 400,000 boys and girls were enrolled in 



