Rural School Leaflet. 981 



now, it is probable that you will get so much in the habit of doing things 

 poorly that you will not be able to change. 



Now is the time for you to begin to think what you want to be. It 

 will do no harm even if you change your mind later. When you decide 

 what you think you would like to do, prepare yourself for it and then 

 work hard. Ambition, education and work are three things that will 

 help you to win. 



Now about Farm Boys' and Girls' Clubs. I expect you have one 

 formed in your school by this time. I hope you will do this because 

 there are so many things that you can do if you have a club. We will 

 suggest many of these things and you will like to do some of them. 



One of the professors here, who teaches students how to grow apples 

 and pears and berries and other good things, has promised that next 

 spring he will send some currant and gooseberry cuttings and straw- 

 berry^ vines to Farm Boys' and Girls' Clubs. He will tell you how to 

 plant these and take care of them and finally how to pack and ship 

 and market them. He is a pretty good kind of professor, don't you 

 think? Would you like to grow some of this fruit? 



Don't forget Corn Day, January 29th. Your teacher will tell you a 

 great deal about this. I would like to visit your Corn Show and listen 

 to the talks of the Farmers and hear you speak and sing but I do not 

 suppose I can. There are so many of you. 



I have already discussed some of the plans for judging, testing, and 

 raising good corn which you can exhibit next fall at the county fair or 

 which you can sell to earn some money. We want you to have this 

 matter of corn in mind throughout the year. It is one of the real things 

 that you will do and you ought at least to try to do one good piece of 

 work each year. I shall be ver>^ much disappointed if you do not cele- 

 brate Corn Day. Make it a day that you will remember as long as you 

 will the day you fell in the creek and the horse stepped on your foot — ■ 

 both on the same day. 



Here is something important. After Corn Day is over we want your 

 Club to send us the best five ten-ear exhibits of any kind of corn for 

 exhibition at the Cornell Corn Show which comes during Farmers' 

 Week, Feb. 22-27. Pack these carefully and address M. P. Jones, 

 Farm Boys' and Girls' Club Contest, Corn Congress, College of Agri- 

 culture, Ithaca, N. Y. We will pay the express. We shall offer five 

 prizes to the five clubs which send the best five ten-ear exhibits. These 

 will be banners which may be hung in the schoolroom. Each ten-ear 

 exhibit should have on it the name and address of the boy or girl to whom 

 it belongs since we will give prizes or diplomas for the best individual 



