TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VI 501 



The purebred clubs organized during 1919 and 1920 are as follows: 



1919 



No. of 

 Organized by Calves. Breed. 



Fayette County Farm Bureau 17 Holsteins 



Buchanan Co. Jersey Breeders Assn 32 Jerseys 



Buchanan Co. Holstein Breeders Assn 17 Holsteins 



Bremer Co. Holstein Breeders Assn 24 Holsteins 



1920 



Kossuth Co. Farm Bureau 24 Holsteins 



7 Guernseys 



Fayette Co. Farm Bureau 15 Holsteins 



Dubuque Co. Farm Bureau 12 Holsteins 



1 Guernseys 



Buchanan Co. Guernsey Breeders Assn 7 Guernseys 



Bremer Co. Holstein Breeders Assn 15 Holsteins 



Experience in the organization of calf clubs, of course, is gained with 

 each succeeding club organized. The principle of the club work is fine 

 and where properly organized, has worked out just as satisfactorily as 

 they are expected to. There are of course, drawbacks toward making 

 some clubs just the success they should be. The experience of the Asso- 

 ciation in the different clubs is that no association is just as satisfactory 

 as it should be unless there is a club leader in the county or some one 

 who can and will take sufiicient time to give the work the proper amount 

 of attention. The Fayette and Kossuth County clubs have been by far, 

 more successful and this success is entirely due, I believe, to the fact 

 that there is a club leader in the county who makes these clubs his 

 specific duty. 



A few of the other difficulties and drawbacks to the most successful 

 operation of the club are poor care and feeding and allowing the heifers 

 to run with the herd bulls and often getting in calf at too young an age. 

 I think that the most of these difficulties can be gotten around by paying 

 more attention to the farms from which the membership of the boys and 

 girls is encouraged. The work proves more conclusively each year that 

 the smaller clubs with calves placed in the right hands are of much more 

 lasting benefit than the large clubs with calves placed without careful 

 consideration of the kind of care they are likely to receive. 



In the short time that the purebred heifer club work has been han- 

 dled in Iowa a remarkable increase in the interest and enthusiasm has 

 been noticed. Breeders are realizing that this type of work is one of 

 the most effective ways of interesting people in the possibilities of the 

 grade and purebred dairy cow. The demand for the clubs has been in- 

 creased to such an extent that it has taxed the capacity of the Dairy 

 Association in connection with the other routine work to handle the 

 organization and the follow-up work effectively. I believe that the future 

 of the dairy calf club work is very bright and the possibilities unlimited. 

 There is not a community in the state in which sufficient breeders are 

 located but where there is a sufficient interest and willingness to get 

 behind the Dairy Association in organizing a club with calves of one of 

 the dairy breeds. 



