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have adopted this plan: We have formed a Calf Club associa- 

 tion in conjunction with the Farm Bureau and Fair association 

 and the Breeders of Webster county. We appointed a commit- 

 tee of five to go out and purchase these calves. These will have 

 been calved last spring along in March, or as near that 

 time as possible. We are buying these calves outright from the 

 breeders and then are giving the calves away to the boys, by lot. 

 That is, we send out applications to all boys and girls in the 

 county between the ages of ten and nineteen, the same as Mr. 

 Clark does, and they send in these applications, and then we have 

 our drawings in the various townships, and then the one that is 

 lucky enough to get a calf comes to the fair grounds and we give 

 him a calf that has been purchased by the committee and he 

 signs a contract to feed and take care of it, etc., and next fall we 

 sell the calf, and the boy has the right to bid in the calf, or if he 

 does not any profits derived therefrom go to the boy. The money 

 that we have advanced for the calf is paid and then any profits go 

 to the boy. That much is just a little different from Mr. Clark's 

 plan, as he has explained it. But we found this, it was pretty 

 hard work to get enough interest up in our county, because there 

 was nothing of that kind started and we are not a very strong 

 beef or dairy country out there, and so we conceived the idea of 

 buying the calves and making a contract with the parent of the 

 boy, and we then go to the banks and borrow the money. The 

 banks in the county will be glad to finance a proposition of that 

 kind. They loan the money on the contract. I bring this out to 

 show you that ours is a little different method than that specified 

 by Mr. Clark. 



Member : Do you think that the boy would retain as much in- 

 terest in it as if he had his own money invested in it? 



The President: They have the interest, because the parent is 

 back of it — he has obligated himself to the amount of the purchase 

 price of the calf, by signing the contract, which is drawn up in 

 the form of a note. In the event of the death of the calf the fair 

 association and the Farm Bureau will be the loser. 



Member: In the event some irresponsible party should draw 

 the calf, what is done? 



The President: That is under the supervision of the county 

 agent. He goes around to the boys every week or two weeks, 

 and we have a committee in each township or two to see that the 



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