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in which we have had the largest numbers enrolled. It is too late to 

 start one of the calf feeding clubs for the fairs this coming fall. The 

 feeding in these should start by the first of November, if you are putting 

 on a calf contest such as was shown at the state fair last fall. If you 

 are too late for that this year, I bring it to your attention now so that 

 you can start early next year. It is not too late to start the pure-bred 

 calf club. The pig club can, of course, be started along in the winter 

 and spring months, depending upon whether you are starting a market 

 or a pure-bred pig club. The poultry club can also be started in the 

 spring and an exhibit put on at the county and state fairs. We also have 

 the corn clubs, garden clubs, and the canning and food and garment clubs 

 for the girls, and one other club, the judging contest club. We hope by 

 having community contests and then a county fair contest, we will have 

 the boys study the judging of live stock and in that way make it pro- 

 ductive as well as the other clubs. 



Those are just briefly some of the different clubs which have been 

 organized and carried out, and I won't discuss them any more in detail 

 because you can secure information with regard to them from the county 

 agent, I think, in all cases, and we would be glad to supply additional 

 information if needed. I want to emphasize one thing, if I may be put 

 in the position of giving suggestions and not making criticisms, in your 

 classifications. We find it takes more than putting up premium money 

 for the club work in order to have a successful exhibit or demonstration. 

 It is too often the tendency to put up so many dollars in prizes and ex- 

 pect the exhibitors to come. They don't do it in club work, and I don't 

 think you find it any more successful in other lines of work. It is neces- 

 sary to push this kind of work, and it is necessary to give the boys and 

 girls an opportunity to get into that kind of work by having clubs formed 

 at a previous time. It is this one thing that I want to emphasize more 

 than another — start out and make your plans early and then follow them 

 up. My suggestion to you in carrying out this work would be simply 

 this: When you return home, at the first opportunity get in touch with 

 the county agent or leader of your county and go over with him the lines 

 of work that he is already doing and that he can do this coming spring 

 in order to help put on the exhibit and demonstrations at your fair. Go 

 over it thoroughly with him, because the county agents have already se- 

 lected certain projects, and by going to him and co-operating with him 

 I think you will find enough phases of work being conducted already to 

 provide demonstrations for your fairs this fall. We do not put on club 

 work except at the call of the farm bureaus of the county, and then we 

 only furnish whatever help is needed. This year, if the county is putting 

 on a calf club, it will be necessary to have an opportunity to show the 

 calves somewhere. If your fair is held at an opportune time, it will 

 make one of the most interesting exhibits and demonstrations at your 

 fair you can find. If Mr. Clarke or some of the men from the Marshall 

 county fair are here today. I believe they will bear me out in that state- 

 ment, for one of the very best exhibits that they had at their county fair 

 was with the baby beef club. Many other fairs find this work developing 

 very rapidly. As you know, the Interstate Fair at Sioux City is making 

 club work one of its big features, and I think that you can co-operate 



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