DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 91 



The approximate figures for attendance given in this table for county 

 round-ups indicates attendance of boys' and girls' club members only. 

 Adults, who in most cases greatly exceed the children in number were 

 not included. 



Tlie plans for this work for the future include the following: 



1. Two new projects to be started in the fall of 191G. One is to be 

 a liandicraft project and the other a cow-testing project. 



2. Extension of the work to the Upper Peninsula where only four 

 counties have been organized up to date. 



3. The development of volunteer resident leaders who will assist 

 school teachers in supervising the work. 



4. The employment of county club leaders to be paid in part by the 

 College but eventually by the county itself. This has become a neces- 

 sary plan of the future for the reason that the county school commis- 

 sioners and the county agriculturists do not have the time to adequately 

 supervise a county that is completely organized. Whether these county 

 supervisors shall be assistants to the school commissioner or to the 

 county agriculturist is a problem which must soon be solved. 



From all viewpoints boys' and girls' club work seems to be progress- 

 ing as rapidly as is consistent with the development of sentiment and 

 leadership. 



REPORT OF EXTENSION WORK IN FARM CROPS. 



BY J. W. NICOLSON AND I. K, MAYSTEAD. 



With the addition of another man, making two in the Farm Crops 

 Extension work, it has been possible to keep up in a measure with the 

 additional demands being made for this work. Most of the old mem- 

 bers of the Michigan Experiment Association have continued their co- 

 operative crop tests and pedigreed seed work and an additional number 

 of State members and local clubs have affiliated with the association. 

 Tliere is a present membership of 1,580,^ — 227 of whom are state mem- 

 bers, and 1,362 are distributed among 84 local clubs. 



Practically all the members are trying out a cooperative test with an 

 improved grain and some have more than one experiment. Thus, the 

 1,589 members are trying out a total of 1,777 experiments as follows: 



108 tested a bushel of wheat each. 



GG tested a bushel of rye. 



178 tested a bushel of winter barley. 



18 tested a bushel of spring barley. 



753 tested a bushel of oats. 



439 one or two three-quart samples of corn. 



. 142 two-quart samples of beans. 



39 two-quart samples of soy beans. 



11 two-quart samples of cow peas. 



