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the cornstalks. When Saturday used to come around about this time 

 of year Jim and I would have to hitch old Billy to the Welch wagon and 

 haul pumpkins into the barn. We generally kept out one, though, and 

 with Jim's jack-knife (mine was always lost) we made jack-o-lanterns 

 that were so terrible we were almost scared to light the tallow candle 

 inside. I am not going to tell you what we did with those jack-o-lanterns, 

 but probably you can guess. I expect you have made these things 

 yourselves and know how to use them. 



Don't you like the fall best of all on rainy nights — on Friday nights 

 when you don't have to study? Then it is that after a supper of steak 

 and baked potatoes, a big, wide, thick slice of yellow-brown pumpkin 

 pie tastes good. (I used to feel so happy that I would laugh right out 

 loud at nothing.) Then after every last crumb is off the plate, you can 

 go down cellar and get a big King apple or a Pound Sweet or a Northern 

 Spy, and stretch out in a chair in front of the stove. Then you are ready 

 for a good story book. It surely is good fun to be a farmer lad. I am 

 glad I am. 



Stevenson's Treasure Island is an exciting book to read before the 

 fire only you will be almost afraid to go to bed. Swiss Family Robinson, 

 and Robinson Cinasoe, — well I expect you have surely read these books 

 already. Don't you hke Henty? "Under Drake's Flag," "By Right 

 of Conquest," "In the Reign of Terror," "With Lee in Virginia," and 

 most any of his stories are good. "The Five Little Peppers and How 

 They Grew" or "Black Dcauty" are books you will like to read by the 

 fire. If you haven't any of these books some of the other boys may have. 

 The members of the Farm Boys' Club might exchange books among them- 

 selves. I suggest that your secretary get from the member of the club 

 a list of the books they own. Let him put all these together somewhere 

 in the schoolroom where everyone in the club may have an opportunity 

 to see them. Then the members can loan their books to one another. 



How many of you boys organized clubs last year? We want the 

 secretary of every club to send us a report of what has been done. If 

 any club received and planted Cornell seed last spring, we want to know 

 what the results were. We ask every Farm Boys' Club, therefore, to 

 send us a report through its secretary. The names of all the officers of 

 the club should be in this report. 



Now there are some of you farm boys who have not formed any club 

 in your school yet. We would like to have you do this right away. One 

 reason is that we want you to be in direct touch with the New York 

 State College of Agriculture. We want to write letters to you. There 

 are bo many of you, though, that we cannot write to each one personally 



