142 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Buckwheat (estimated)... 7,000 14.0 bu. 1.95 98,000 191,100 

 Fruit crop (estimated).... 7,000,000 

 Garden truck (estimated). 8,000,000 

 Sugar beets for manufac- 

 ture (estimated) 8,000 8.0 tons 10.00 64,000 576,000 



Miscellaneous (estimated). 11,000,000 



Total value $950,056,002 



♦For grain only; does not include approximately 40,000 acres used for 

 pasture. 



The Chairman: We will now listen to an address entitled "Pro- 

 jects for Junior Clubs," by P. C. Taff, state club leader, of Ames, 

 Iowa. 



P. C. Taff, Ames, Iowa: 

 Mr. President and Gentlemen: 



I am very glad to have this opportunity of presenting the boys' and 

 girls' work to you, for a number of reasons. First, because I am glad 

 that your program committee has seen fit to include this very important 

 line of work in their program, and second, because it gives us an oppor- 

 tunity to come together and discuss in a definite way some of the things 

 we need to do and need to act upo^. 



I think you see that in the many changes which are coming about in 

 your fair work, that the boys' and girls' part is assuming very large pro- 

 portions. I was very much pleased that your president in his splendid 

 address a while ago dwelt upon that point. I think you have noticed 

 that the state fair has come forward in the matter of taking care of the 

 boys and girls in their work in a very splendid way in the past few years, 

 and we are very glad to note from the remarks of the president that they 

 still have greater plans for them in the years to come. 



I do not need to take your time to emphasize the importance of this 

 line of work. I believe that you all realize that. I think that any lack 

 of co-operation on the part of the local fairs has been due, probably, to 

 the lack of a plan, something definite that you could work up and go 

 ahead with, and we hope that if our co-operation can do any good for 

 yqu that you will give us the opportunity to more definitely put the club 

 work into your programs for this coming year. I do not believe I need 

 to discuss, as I have said, the importance of the work. We have around 

 450,000 boys and girls in the state of Iowa of club age — that means be- 

 tween the ages of 10 and 19. Now, certainly those boys and girls are a 

 factor that you cannot afford to overlook in any line of educational en- 

 deaver, and, remember, we look upon the club work as educational work, 

 bringing in, of course, a number of other things that I will mention later. 

 It is an important work, and these boys and girls in Iowa, particularly 

 those on the farms, are entitled to the very best that you can give them 

 in your fairs, or any other line of educational work that you are doing. 

 The schools, of course, are filling the big need in an educational way, 

 and the club work does not take the place of school work, it simply sup- 

 plements, it adds to the school work something it has not had in the past. 



I want to outline the purposes of club work in order that we may all 

 have the same understanding regarding what we are trying to do. It 



