THE CORN LADY 



Wheaton, Iowa, April 3, 1911 



DADDY DEAR: The men are busy in the 

 fields now, but the boys have all stayed in 

 school. I cannot tell you how glad I am. 

 Edward's father said to me: 



"Well, I just couldn't think of taking Ed- 

 ward out of school this year, until it was out, 

 for he is so interested and learning so much. 

 And he is learning things he can use, too." 



Everyone of my pupils has enrolled in 

 the State Junior Boys' and Girls' Club, or- 

 ganized and planned for by our Extension 

 Department. The girls will take the work 

 in cooking, sewing and home management, 

 so they will be busy on this work all sum- 

 mer, whenever they have time. The boys 

 will be learning to "put their head into the 

 game of farming" by taking the courses in 

 the acre yield contests and the individual ear- 

 test. The boy in the state who has the larg- 

 est number of bushels of corn on his acre, 

 with the least expense, is to have a trip to 

 Washington, D. C., next fall, and his mother 

 may go, too. How we all wish that this 



