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furnished by the Department of Agriculture. Aside 

 from the clubs already mentioned are Good Eoads 

 Clubs, Poultry Clubs, Vegetable Garden Clubs, Sugar 

 Beet Clubs, and Father and Son Clubs. 



Boys* Corn Clubs. The Corn Club idea started 

 in the South in this way. The boys of a county 



Courtesy of U. &. Dept. of Agriculture 



Fig. IIL A specialist in charge of National Club work, conducting a 

 school of instruction in home and school canning methods. 



were invited to join such a club and were assisted 

 in forming the organization. During tlie winter they 

 lield meetings and studied the pamphlets received 

 from the Department at Washington. These gave 

 them information about selecting seed and fertilizer, 

 and how to plant, cultivate, and harvest the crop. 



