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the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Rep- 

 resentatives, and the chairman of that committee 

 declared the boys' and girls' clubs movement to be 

 the best work the Department of Agriculture had 

 ever attempted. 



Getting Information. It is impossible in this 

 short chapter to give all the information necessary 

 to form any club, but all one wishes to know may 

 be obtained from: Office of Farm Management,' 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



The Club and School. These clubs are the very 

 best way of connecting the work of the country 

 schools and the farm home. Parents and teachers 

 are working together in this movement. Since the 

 teacher is likely to be crowded with her work of 

 teaching reading, arithmetic, and the other impor- 

 tant subjects that the children must know, she can- 

 not do very much experimenting in school hours in 

 the way of agriculture. So the club which meets 

 after school, in the evenings or on Saturdays, is the 

 best means of teaching good practice in agriculture 

 and home canning. In this way the entire neighbor- 

 hood is receiving instruction. Our Government real- 

 izes that the future of American agriculture is 

 largely dependent on the boys and girls of to-day, 

 and it is the purpose of this club movement to assist 

 in instructing and directing the youth of our vil- 

 lages and rural communities so that they will appre- 

 ciate the fact that farming is a dignified, important, 

 and profitable life work. 



