342 Journal of Agriculture, Vlrtoriu. [10 June, 1918. 



These boys' clubs have reached a very high pitch of dovolopment in 

 Utah, where, I understand, in a total population of some 400,000 people, 

 there are not less than 15,000 boys engaged in farming crops and rais- 

 ing stock. The Pig Clubs are usually worked as follows: — 

 The boys select two pigs, eight to ten weeks old, and keep 

 them four months. They are then six months old, and should weigh 

 between 175 and 200 lbs. They keep records every day of the total 

 quantities of feed used. This feed is valued at cost. The total time 

 and feed costs are carefully checked out, and the profit on raising the 

 pigs after charging all expenses is determined. The boy then writes an 

 essay on " How I raised my pigs." It may be mentioned that the banks 

 will lend money at 6 per cent, to any boy in a pig club for purchase of 

 pigs on the boy's note of hand. 



After the boys' high school clubs were organized there was a move- 

 ment established to bring the clubs to the intermediate schools, and the 

 University was asked to lend itself to the organization of such clubs. 



I^xperience in high school clubs has shown, however, that the success 

 of boys' clubs of any sort depended on supervision. It is essential to 

 the success of the club that the work of each individual be inspected 

 at least once a m.onth during the progress of the work. 



It was obviously impossible for the college directly to undertake so 

 stupendous a task with its present resources, and it was unwilling to 

 make the attempt under conditions which spelled failure. Hence it pro- 

 posed to Boards of Education and to principals of high schools that it 

 would lay out plans for the conduct of boys' agricultural clubs in the 

 public schools, and help the school authorities to organize them, if they 

 would assume the entire responsibility for their supervision. 



Already in ISTapa County the High School, through its teacher of 

 agriculture, C. L. Hampton, has started the movement of boys' agricul- 

 tural clubs. Six such clubs Avere conducted in Xapa County during 

 the past year, and the prize winner of each attended the third annual 

 convention of the Boys' High School Agricultural Clubs, held at Davis 

 in October. 



In the past, high school teachers of agriculture have been itinerant 

 in character, going from school to school from year to year, remaining 

 but nine or ten months in any one community. It is highly desirable 

 for the future development of California country life that these men 

 should become established parts of the community in which they are 

 placed. They should spend the entire calendar year, with a vacation at 

 Christmas, in farming activities of benefit to their own people. 



In order to demonstrate the feasibility of this plan, the College of 

 Agriculture, through the Agricultural Extension Division, has proposed 

 to the high schools and to the Boards of Education that they should 

 employ these teachers for twelve months in the year, and furnish them 

 with adequate transportation in order to reach their work out on the 

 farms. If at least three months is spent in agricultural extension acti- 

 vities, and if these activities are under the direction and supervision of 

 the University of California e$200 per year will be contributed by 

 the United States Department of Agriculture, and by the University of 

 California, to the salary of each of the agricultural instructors. 



Already ten Boards of Education have officially entered into such 

 an agreement. Briefly, the agreement is this : That the teacher of 



