SECOND ANNUAL REPORT ON BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUB 



WORK. 



Aims and Organization. 

 The aim of the Boys' and Girls' Club work is to promote 

 the study of agriculture and home economics among the young 

 people of the Commonwealth. In order to accomplish this aim 

 the organization is planned in such a way as to secure the best 

 results with the least machinery possible. The work is directed 

 by the Extension Service of the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College as a branch of the Department of Agricultural Edu- 

 cation. The financial and general administrative aspects are in 

 the hands of the Extension Service. The immediate promotion 

 and conduct of the work is carried on by the Department of 

 Agricultural Education. The field workers are the extension 

 members of the staff in agricultural education. The head of 

 the department has general oversight and is responsible to the 

 director of the Extension Service for the direction of the club 

 work. The extension professor of agricultural education has 

 charge of the field work and also the immediate direction and 

 oversight of the field assistants. At the present time the staff 

 consists of W. R. Hart, professor of agricultural education, 

 O. A. Morton, extension professor in agricultural education, 

 Miss Ethel H. Nash, extension instructor in agricultural edu- 

 cation, and E. N. Boland, extension instructor in charge of 

 Boys' and Girls' Pig Club work. 



Co-operative Agencies. 

 It would be impossible to do the club work eflSciently without 

 the help of other organized agencies co-operating with the 

 college. The public schools of the State, the Massachusetts 

 State Board of Agriculture, the county bureaus, improvement 

 leagues, and the United States Department of Agriculture are 

 the chief organized agencies co-operating with the Massachu- 



