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season and transmit the same to the county superintendent, 

 club leader or State agent in charge of club work. 



3. To make an exhibit of club products at the local club 

 festival, county or State Fair, as denominated by the State or 

 county leader of the club. 



4. Club members should endeavor to project the interest 

 of the club activities into the regular work of the school. This 

 can be done first by writing a story, "How I Raised My Crop," 

 and submitting it to the teacher in connection with the language 

 work or regular requirements in English. 



IMPORTANCE OF FOLLOW-UP WORK. 



Boys' and girls' club work and the special contests which 

 precipitates all of its activities and is confined to a large enroll- 

 ment and the promises given by the leader in his newspaper 

 publicity work, with no tangible results to report at the close of 

 a cropping season, is of mighty little value to agriculture and of 

 much less value to the individual club members. 



When follow-up work has been neglected the club work can 

 be very easily classified and recognized as a failure. Follow-up 

 work contemplates carefully prepared, printed instructions, 

 special meetings for instruction purposes at schools, social cen- 

 ters, county seats and other available centers, personal visits to 

 club plats by regular State, district or county leaders or their 

 delegated substitutes. 



A word of encouragement and a few suggestions at the 

 psychological moment will not only mean results on the club 

 plat, but even greater results in the life and character of the 

 club member. 



Field meetings and demonstrations are of vast importance 

 as a means of follow-up work in connection with the boys' and 

 girls' club project. It is a rare thing to find a club member who 

 does not keenly enjoy the opportunity to study the great book 

 of nature out in the interesting school of a cornfield, potato patch, 

 home garden or canning camp. 



THE TESTS OF I^EADERSHIP. 



The fullest evidence of a person's weakness in conducting 

 boys' and girls' club work is in his desire to scatter effort or to 

 use the "spread-eagle" method of meeting every conceivable 

 demand and call upon his time and thus make it impossible to 

 concentrate and "deliver the goods" in a few, well-chosen 



