ized with an initial membership of 750, and so popular 

 has the movement proved that there are to-day 240 such 

 clubs, 1,500 branch clubs and a total membership of 30,000. 

 Practically all girls and boys between the ages of ten and 

 nineteen years in that province outside of the cities 

 are members of the clubs, with the result that future 

 emphasis in this connection is directed towards making 

 the work more efficient. 



For organization purposes, the Public School Inspec- 

 toral Division is taken as the unit and the Public School 

 Inspector is chief executive officer. General organization 

 work is under the charge of the Agricultural Extension 

 Service, and from two to four members devote all their 

 time to club work throughout the year, while at certain 

 busy seasons of the year, when, for instance, club fairs 

 are being held, the whole Extension Staff as well as the 

 majority of the Agricultural College Staff turns in to 

 help judge the thousands of exhibits that are on display 

 at these fairs. 



Government Encouragement 



Government encouragement of the movement is 

 shown in the provision of 50% of the money paid out in 

 cash prizes on 

 agricultural and 

 home economics, 

 and 50%on school 

 exhibitsupto!5% 

 of the total Gov- 

 ernment grant; 

 the amount re- 

 quired for such 

 purposes this year 

 was $20,000. 

 Manitoba is the 

 only province that 

 tangibly assists 

 clubs to hold fairs 

 in this manner, 

 and after four 

 years' experience 

 they are evidently 

 well satisfied with 

 the result and 

 convinced that 

 such assistance 

 has materially 

 contributed to the 

 success of the 

 movement. 



For the pre- 

 sent it is neces- 

 sary to depend 

 on local volunteer adult leadership, and this leadership has 

 been provided by such organizations as the public school 

 teachers, agricultural societies, poultry associations, and 

 by those with vision wide enough to see that the success 

 of the community depended on the success of all individuals 

 in the community. 



The work is confined to a few well-defined projects, 

 there being six in agricultural and three in home-keeping. 

 However, the girls do not confine themselves to strictly 

 housekeeping subjects, but are frequent competitors in al- 

 most every phase of agricultural work, and occasionally a 

 boy is found who shows expertness in the home-making 

 projects and whom they believe will be eagerly sought 

 after in later years. 



The number taking part in the various projects as 

 shown by the following list, namely, gardening, 15,000; 

 sewing, 12,000; cookery, 12,000; poultry, 5,000; canning, 

 5,000; live stock, 4,500; grain growing, 2,500; dairying, 

 2,300; and woodwork, 1,800, indicates that some subjects 

 are more popular than others. The difference is more a 

 question of circumstances. Many club members living 

 in towns cannot go in for livestock, grain growing and 

 dairying to the extent that they would like, and, generally, 

 these cannot be taken up in the country except by the 



THE MODERN CANNING TEAM, CHAMPIONS OF MANITOBA. 



'teen age members, while in the projects like gardening, 

 poultry raising and sewing, all members can take part. 



Their Motto: "Achievement" 



The four-leaf clover, the emblem of good luck with 

 a capital "H" on each leaf, has been adopted as the club 

 emblem. The four "H's" typify the all-round develop- 

 ment which club work stands for, "Head, Hand, Heart 

 and Health." 



In the past, the greatest emphasis has perhaps been 

 placed on the training of the hand through agricultural 

 and home-making pursuits. The 1921 programme, how- 

 ever, will emphasize the four-fold function of club work, 

 and will seek to develop well-balanced, thoughtful, 

 energetic, companionable, country-minded boys and girls. 

 The feature of club work that makes it superior to 

 practically all other 'teen age organizations, such as the 

 Boy Scouts, Cadets, Tuxis Squares, Trail Rangers, etc., 

 is ownership. Practically all the good features in these 

 splendid city boy organizations are included in the Boys' 

 and Girls' Club scheme, and, in addition, provision is 

 made for each member to raise chickens or pigs or calves 

 and sheep to ,plant a garden and preserve the product*, 



to have a quarter- 

 acre plot of certi- 

 fied disease - free 

 potatoes, and, 

 lastly, to be able 

 to sell their pro- 

 duct and open a 

 snug bank ac- 

 count, not for the 

 purpose of hoard- 

 ing, but to have 

 it available for use 

 when a favorable 

 opportunity pre- 

 sents itself. 



No Idea of 

 Money Value 



Neither the 

 boy nor girl who 

 has no money to 

 spend, nor the one 

 who gets all he 

 wants to spend, 

 has any idea of 

 the value of 

 money or how to 

 advantageously 

 spend it when 



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they do happen to have it, compared with the boy who 

 earns it and is free to invest it as his judgment suggests. 



A feature of club work developed during the past year 

 that offers great possibilities is team demonstration work. 

 A demonstration team consists of three girls or three boys, 

 a captain and two assistants. Such a team will take an 

 agricultural or home economics subject and by drama- 

 tizing it, invest it with such interest that not only do the 

 members of the team, but those who have the opportunity 

 of listening to them, see in it a subject capable of untold 

 interest and investigation. 



The captain of a cow-testing team, for instance, will 

 give an interesting review of dairy cattle from the time of 

 the Pilgrim Fathers, when John Alden is said to have taken 

 Priscilla Mellen to their future home on the back of a 

 Holstein bullock, up to the present, when magnificent 

 herds of Holsteins, Ayrshires and Shorthorns are to be 

 found in many parts of the province. While she is giving 

 this description, her team-mates are busily unpacking 

 a Babcock tester and preparing for a demonstration of 

 its use. Not more than ten minutes is taken by the captain 

 with the historic part of the programme. She then steps 

 aside and is soon busily engaged with a part of the mechan- 

 ical work connected with the demonstration, while one 



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