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3. To enlist the interest and efforts of the boys and girls 

 in the problems of greater efficiency and economy in farm and 

 home interests. 



4. To demonstrate the best methods for the elimination of 

 waste in orchard, field and garden. 



5. To offer to the young people the proper leadership and 

 direction for their own personal conservation as well as the con- 

 servation of the best American agriculture. 



SCHOOL CREDIT FOR CLUB WORK. 



It is urged that as far as possible the superintendents and 

 teachers in charge of the school systems of state, county, city and 

 local schools will plan to recognize real achievement in club 

 work by giving recognition by means of credits to all who enter 

 club projects and follow instructions, keep a complete record 

 and show a net profit on investment for the season's work. This 

 can be done in two ways: 



1. By grading the club report and the written essay on 

 "How I Made My Crop," presented by club members, and 

 accepting this in lieu of a written examination in the work in 

 elementary agriculture or home economics. 



2. By grading the papers on a basis of 100 per cent and 

 accepting the grades in this report as a substitute for some other 

 subject required in the school course. 



LEADERSHIP. 



The club leader of a State, district or community should be 

 one of the best trained men or women available for this work. 

 They should be endowed with a liberal amount of common sense. 

 It is also important that the club leader has had public school 

 and, if possible, the experience as county or state superintendent 

 of schools; he will need a broad, educational viewpoint that will 

 make it difficult for him to be academic in his leadership of the 

 boys and girls in this work. 



A club leader who is constantly diverting the boys and girls 

 from the practical and vocational viewpoint to the academic 

 and the classroom exercises is simply doing the thing that will 

 increase the "bookishness" of our present system of education 

 and will add more textbooks and class periods rather than re- 

 direct and reinforce the school as a factor for and toward the 

 home and farm. 



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