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of farming is through their boys. In 1910, over 46,000 

 boys were enrolled in Corn Clubs. Prize winners in four 

 states were given diplomas of merit and trips to Wash- 

 ington. The next year, every Southern state offered such 

 trips, through bankers' associations, boards of trade, 

 educational associations ; also through private citizens 

 and through state fairs ; while governors and Superin- 

 tendents of public instruction offered diplomas to all 

 boys who would make excellent records. 



Next to studying how to grow corn will inevitably come 

 how to feed it, and how to do other things. With the 

 mother, the boys and girls and the older youth all waking 

 to the opportunity ready to their grasp, and with the 

 Poultry Clubs in the Public Schools, the reign of igno- 

 rance and indifference to the farm will surely be dealt 

 an overcoming blow. 



Even the wisest in poultry matters dare not venture 

 to forecast what will be the amazing developments in 

 this field of work between 1912 and 1920. With New 

 York establishing Agricultural High Schools as fast as 

 the people will support them ; -with Arkansas leading in 

 putting instruction in poultry culture into the public 

 schools, where every child can be taught ; with Station 

 after Station making special efforts toward poultry in- 

 struction ; with Boys' and Girls' Clubs starting up here 

 and there ; with two wide-reaching Competitions already 

 on, from which reports go out and are published broad- 

 cast every month of the year, who shall say to what we 

 shall attain ? 



The many raise poultry, it is true ; more will raise it 

 in the near future ; we have something Jike five million 

 farms, the government says, where poultry is raised every 



