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the prize in this case being their expenses on that trip. A 

 prize greatly valued by large numbers of club members has 

 been the payment of all necessary expenses of a trip to the 

 state fair or to the college of agriculture. Each year at the 

 Ohio State University the club boys and girls have contests 

 in judging covering several days, at the end of which period 

 the five scoring the highest number of points have been 

 awarded special medals. Silver cups and banners are also 

 desirable prizes, especially for competition between clubs. 



The benefits derived from the work of club members is 

 far greater than might be thought possible. Certainly 



Figure 211. The Henry County, Ohio, Pig Club. Photograph from Exten- 

 sion Service, Ohio State University. 



through these organizations has come a greatly increased 

 interest in farm life, and this has resulted in the keeping of 

 better live stock on many farms. As never before in the 

 history of America, young boys and girls have become part- 

 ners with their parents. During 1920, according to Messrs. 

 C. B. Smith and G. E. Farrell,* 5,000 farmers were led to 

 replace scrub pigs with pure-breds as a result of the pig-club 

 work. Further, this same year 3,000 poultry-club members 

 in the northern and western states introduced 38,000 pure- 

 bred fowls on their home farms, culled 1,200 flocks, and 

 raised 155,000 chickens. Thousands of pure-bred animals, 



*Yearbook U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1920, p. 489. 



