196 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [P. D. 4. 



Club Enterprises. 



Nine distinct lines of work have been carried on during the 

 past year, — corn growing, potato growing, market gardening, 

 egg production, home economics, canning, home gardening, 

 pork production and calf raising. These are the main activities 

 of an all-round farm home, representing as they do the field, 

 the garden and the household. Table I. shows how these 

 various activities are distributed. It will be noted that every 

 county is represented. The table presents some facts worthy 

 of note. Worcester County leads all the other counties, except 

 in pork production and home gardens; it stands almost alone 

 in calf raising. Worcester County was fortunate in having 

 an expert adviser for this line of work. Other counties were 

 advised not to take up this work till experts could be secured 

 to direct it. Plymouth County stands out as the leader in 

 pork production. This may be accounted for by the fact that 

 the promotion of the pig club was made a special feature of 

 the work of the Plymouth County Trust Company. Middle- 

 sex County leads its closest competitor, Essex, by nearly 4,000 

 in home gardens. It may be further noted that the scale of 

 popularity, as shown by the totals, is in the following order: 

 home gardens, home economics, market gardening, canning, 

 egg production, pork production, potato growing, corn growing 

 and calf raising. This order is likely to fluctuate from year 

 to year; it depends quite as much upon the interest and 

 activity of club directors as upon the interests of the boys 

 and girls themselves. 



The study of this table should not be passed without a brief 

 reference to Dukes and Nantucket counties. It is a pleasure 

 to know that they are represented. The numbers, however, 

 are in no sense a measure of the interest of those counties in 

 this great work. Appeals for aid have been coming from those 

 counties ever since the club work started, nine years ago. 

 The children are there. The wellspring of interest is there. 

 Some means should be found whereby those counties may share 

 in the great benefits of this work now enjoyed in nearly all 

 other parts of the Commonwealth. 



