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canned would have gone to waste had it not 

 been for the instructions and definite direc- 

 tions received. 



Club members who have won state cham- 

 pionships or made unusual records in connec- 

 tion with their projects become members of 

 the National All-Star Achievement Club. To 

 such members advanced work is assigned in 

 crop rotation, farm management work and 

 duties as leaders. Forty-two champions of the 

 Northern states have furnished reports, and 

 the following data may prove of interest: The 

 average age of these forty-two champions was 

 seventeen years; average number of years in 

 club work, two and one-third years; longest 

 time of any club member in the work, six 



years; twenty-nine of these champions are 

 still attending school, twenty-six are making 

 plans to attend college and twenty-two of 

 them will go to colleges of agriculture. When 

 questioned with reference to their selection 

 of a vocation for life these champions reported 

 as follows: Fifteen will take up farming and 

 stock raising; three will take up domestic 

 science teaching; seventeen, veterinary medi- 

 cine; one, engineering; and two, teaching or 

 club-leadership. Eight of these forty-two were 

 champions in club work for 1915. O.F.B. 



Information relating to all phases of the Boys' 

 and Girls' Club movement may be obtained from 

 the Department of Agriculture, Washington, 

 D. C. 



OY SCOUTS, an organization of 

 boys, international in its scope, which has won 

 for itself this commendation: "No move- 

 ment of our time towards child betterment 

 has been more practical than the Boy Scout 

 movement." All boys between the ages of 

 twelve and eighteen may join, if they fulfil 

 certain requirements, and it offers to them an 

 opportunity for training in resourcefulness, self- 

 control, thrift, courage in fact, almost all the 

 virtues that make for efficient manhood and 

 good citizenship. 



History. The first organization of this kind 

 in the world was founded by Daniel Carter 

 Beard in May, 1905. It was called the Sons 

 of Daniel Boone, "a society of tenderfeet and 

 boy scouts." Each officer bore as a title the 

 name of a famous scout, Daniel Boone (presi- 

 dent), Davy Crockett (secretary), Kit Carson 

 (treasurer) and Simon Kenton (keeper .of the 

 tally gun). About the same time Ernest 

 Thompson Seton, the naturalist, formed an 

 organization called the Woodcraft Indians, his 

 purpose being to glorify the American Indian. 

 Beard's idea, on the other hand, was to incul- 

 cate the manly qualities of the early American 

 scouts in the characters of the modern Ameri- 

 can boys. In 1910 the Woodcraft Indians de- 

 cided to unite with the Sons of Daniel Boone, 



to form a larger organization, the Boy Scouts 

 of America. Meanwhile, in 1908, Sir Robert 

 Baden-Powell had formed the Boy Scouts of 

 England, modeled on the Sons of Daniel 

 Boone, and at the first banquet of the execu- 

 tive board of the Boy Scouts of America, 

 Baden-Powell acknowledged the source of his 

 inspiration : 



"I am not," he said, "the father of the Boy 

 Scouts movement. I might be called its uncle. 

 . . . I looked at what the United States were 

 doing, read some of Beard's books on various 

 plans that you had under way over here, cribbed 

 from them right and left, and started the Boy 

 Scouts of England." 



So exactly did the aims and activities of the 

 new society meet the demands of the boys 

 themselves, as well as the ideals of their par- 

 ents or guardians, that the movement spread 

 rapidly, until at present not only England and 

 the United States, but Canada, Germany, 

 France, Italy, Australia, China and several 

 South American republics have branches. In 

 the United States alone there are about 200,000 

 Boy Scouts, and in all other countries there 

 are about 800,000 more. 



Purposes and Methods. The method is 

 summed up in the term scoutcraft, which in- 

 cludes first aid, life-saving, tracking, signaling, 



