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projects. "Spread-eagle methods" are usually accompanied 

 by arguments and excuses along the following lines: 



"We have so many thousand boys and girls enrolled." 

 "We have sent out so many thousand circulars of instruc- 

 tion." 



"We have organized so many club activities in the State." 

 "The main object of club work is tq help the boys and girls." 

 "After all, what we are after is not earning power, more 

 money, but better character and culture for our boys and girls." 

 "I am trying to conserve the boys and girls rather than to 

 teach them better agriculture and home economics." 



We believe that ten club members in one single county who 

 will enter, study and demonstrate that farming is interesting, 

 practicable and profitable are worth more than 500 club members 

 who have enrolled and done but little in the work. The slogan 

 of every club leader, then, should be "Results" at the end of the 

 cropping season. 



CLUB WORK AS RELATED TO MARKETS AND CONSUMERS. 



Boys' and girls' club work means more than the mere man- 

 agement and growing of a crop. It should furnish instruction 

 to the member in the proper methods of preparing, grading and 

 crating of products for the market, and how to secure and main- 

 tain a profitable market. The local club organization should 

 be organized so as to teach the lessons of co-operative buying 

 and selling and in this way develop for the future generation a 

 type of people who will not only appreciate and understand co- 

 operation, but profit by real co-operative methods. Such club 

 members should be taught the relation of the producers to con- 

 sumers, the best means of transportation, the value of the honest 

 pack as related to both consumer and producer, and finally, how 

 to effectively eliminate the waste products by the skillful use of 

 the little and inexpensive home canner. 



ALL-STAR CLUB WORK. 



It is exceedingly important that a disposition be made of 

 the boys and girls who have from time to time won the high 

 honors and who have become the champions of their respective 

 states, district and communities by offering to them a plan of 

 constructive agriculture and domestic science work which will 

 keep them in the work and bridge the gap between the club age 



