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Domestic Science Club. The county organizations are the 

 same, with the county as a unit. School district organizations 

 are the same, with the school district as a unit. In many cases 

 the boys and girls clubs unite as one club. Meetings are being 

 held this year [1908] during the month of November in 33 counties 

 in the state, preceding the state meeting in December. At these 

 meetings the young people bring exhibits in agriculture, domestic 

 art and manual training. These articles are home work done 

 through the encouragement and direction of teachers and superin- 

 tendents. Hundreds of exhibits are brought to a central point 

 in the county, generally the county seat. The state department 

 of education and the University of Nebraska unite in sending to 

 the meetings speakers and judges who award premiums and de- 

 liver addresses. The meetings vary in attendance from 100 to 

 2,000. The town and city schools in many counties adjourn 

 school and unite with the rural schools in emphasizing the 

 industrial work as carried out in the lines above mentioned. 



These meetings are generally called "corn contests," although 

 they include as much, and many times more, of other work. In 

 some cases, all kinds of industrial school work are exhibited by 

 individuals and by schools. These occasions have a strong 

 influence in dignifying the work of the farm and home. It has 

 brought the study of agriculture, domestic art and manual train- 

 ing to the homes of the people in a manner which appeals to the 

 higher motives and creates a desire for more knowledge along 

 these lines and for greater efficiency in work connected therewith. 

 It has led to the establishment of regular courses in domestic 

 science and manual training in several of our town and city schools 

 and to a strong demand for the teaching of agriculture in all the 

 schools. 



The most encouraging feature of the movement to get better 

 results in the rural school is the adaptation of some of the work 

 which heretofore has been confined largely to high schools, 

 special schools and universities. The tendency to withhold from 

 the child until his general education is completed that part of 

 education which is calculated to help him to better enjoy the 

 home life, has lead to the crowding into his early school life the 

 part of education which is designed to prepare him for further 

 education with little regard to meeting the conditions necessary 

 to enable the child to enjoy the results of education all along the 

 line during the time of his early years. 



