232 A YEAR IN AGRICULTURE 



Country Life Chib, an organization now growing in colleges, 

 normals, and other schools, whose membership is composed 

 of college men and women who are to become the leaders of 

 country life institutions and interests when they leave school. 



Boys and girls agricultural clubs. No study of country 

 life organizations would be complete without looking into 

 the growth, work, and development of the boys and girls 

 club movement. There is a national leader directing this 

 work, and nearly all the states have state leaders cooperating. 

 County superintendents of schools, county agricultural ad- 

 visors, and other local leaders are active in the organization 

 and direction of the boys and girls agricultural clubs. These 

 clubs are organized to promote better agriculture and home 

 economics, and usually center about some form of contest. 

 Corn-growing, tomato-raising, canning, gardening, pig-rais- 

 ing, and poultry-raising contests are carried on by these 

 clubs, and the possibilities of extending their activities into 

 all phases of farm and home life are unlimited. 



Agricultural Improvement Associations. One of the lat- 

 est and most efficient forms of a country life organization is 

 the Agricultural Improvement Association, forming in hun- 

 dreds of counties over the country in every state in the 

 Union. The county is the unit of organization, and the 

 securing of a county agricultural advisor for the Association 

 is the first important work of the organization. A member- 

 ship fee of ten dollars a year for a period of three or five 

 years is usually required, and the membership is limited to 

 between three hundred and four hundred persons. Farmers 

 and business men of the towns of the county become members 



