8o6 Rural School Leaflet. 



into the program as suggested by your teacher. The prizes for the best 

 exhibit with the best written report, could be awarded at this same time. 



Now, do remember to hold meetings regularly during the summer 

 and fall, one a month, to talk about your work and to plan for 

 some good sport, as, for instance, baseball games, or fishing trips, or 

 excursions to good farms. 



You will rememiber that we spoke about having a day of our own at 

 the County Fair. Let each one of us get his father and friends 

 to arrange with the County Fair Association in order that a day may 

 be set aside for our exhibits and for arranging features especially for 

 the New York State Farm Boys' Clubs in your County. Then, too, 

 let us arrange with the Farmers' Institute, that probably will be held 

 near your place, to have a part of the session given over entirely to the 

 Boys' Club. Supposing your officers arrange with the conductor of 

 the Institute to have some work especially for the Club. Then, let 

 some of the boys of the Club give a report at the Farmers' Institute 

 on what they have done. I think it would be fine to have at the Farmers' 

 Institute a number of reports from boys who had grown some good 

 farm crops during the summer. I am sure that the neighborhood would 

 be proud of them. I should like to see scores of boys in the audience 

 listening to these reports that you will make. 



This means business. Business means promptness. Send for your 

 seeds at once. With each package of seeds will go special directions 

 for planting. We are arranging now to get high pedigree oats, corn, 

 potatoes, beans. We will also have the vegetable and flower seeds ready 

 for you. 



Boys, remember that you are not the only ones who are doing this. 

 There are other boys, in other school districts, and in other counties, 

 who are planning to take up this very same work. The}'- are doing it be- 

 cause they want to work, because they like the fun that will come through 

 the Club, and because they want to get to know other boys in the neigh- 

 borhood. They want to get one another interested in work and play 

 that will be worth the effort. Do not put it off. If you have not 

 started your Club, do so at once. Get your organization. Send for 

 your seeds, according to the directions in the April leaflet. There is no 

 room in these clubs for the lazy boys. The watch -word is "hustle." 

 Will you be a "hustler?" Write me. 



Yours for the boys' club, 



Charles H. Tuck. 



