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individual because the fathers in giving up the acreage were feeling 

 they were doing their share. The time will come, however, when 

 they themselves will suggest raising the premium money among 

 themselves, but the advance must be made step by step. 



Two good farm papers were placed on the reading table and th.^ 

 boys encouraged to take them home, incidentally interesting the 

 fathers. A big point was added in giving out little account books 

 in which the pupils were required to keep an accurate account of 

 all expenses, sales, and time spent in work, using the wage scale 

 set by our State College. These accounts were to count for two 

 points in the round up. 



Last winter the Poultry Club worked for the output of eggs, 

 trying to learn that proper care, feeding and housing will influence 

 the laying. This Spring when the Government put out a call 

 for more farmers to keep bees, we added a Bee Club, using for 

 our text-book Mrs. Comstock's own interesting book on "How to 

 Keep Bees," and which one girl who is expecting to teach wanted 

 to know if she "couldn't own." 



Community meetings were held evenings, with an attendance 

 from fifty to seventy-five. 



Two years ago two of the men of the district bought formalda- 

 hyde for oat smut, and this spring seven bought lime for their 

 fields which they had never done before. 



This Spring two cases of insects, one hundred specimens each, 

 one of the injurious and one of the beneficial, were hung on the 

 wall of the school room, and also two empty cases into which 

 pupils are to put their own economic collection and make up the 

 life histories as far as possible. Charts of the Insects and their 

 bird control were printed and given to each club member, and 

 now are to be added circular directions for the spray controls and 

 times for spraying. 



During August of this year on the spur of the moment it was 

 decided to exhibit at the County Exposition. The women entered 

 their canned fruits and vegetables, illustrating their cold pack 

 demonstrations, and dried fruits and vegetables to illustrate 

 the bulletin put out asking the housewife to conserve by the (hying 

 of foodstuffs. I think I can safely say the premiums did not enter 

 their minds ; they were animated by the spirit to pass on the good 

 things they had learned. They were even careful not to duplicate, 

 but to have as great a variety as possible. One of the men entered 



