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uniform in appearance and measurement. The prizes ranged from 

 50 cents to $500, and 1,250 exhibits received awards. Extension 

 work in Illinois at this time included boys' clubs for the study of 

 com growing, com judging, live stock, vegetable exhibits, local 

 crops, variety tests of sugar beets and visits to agricultural institu- 

 tions in other states. 



About 1902 the Ohio boys club was started by the superintendent 

 of schools, and had an enrollment of 700 boys in 1904. 



About 1903 the Texas boys' and girls' club was started. It had 

 an enrollment of over 1,200 by the end of 1904. 



Iowa boys' clubs were started by the superintendent of schools in 

 March, 1904, and an enrollment of 335 was reached by the end of 

 the year. Boys' clubs had been started in New York and in 

 Indiana at an earlier date. 



Soon after boys' clubs were started by the Illinois Farmers' 

 Institute, similar clubs were organized in certain Southern States, 

 notably Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.* This move- 

 ment had grown up and died down before the Farmers' Cooperative 

 Demonstration Work began to attract national attention. This 

 Demonstration Work in the South commenced in 1904. A few 

 bright boy farmers asked to be enrolled in demonstration work 

 along with the men. During the year 1908, boys' club work was 

 extended into several counties and states. At the beginning of 



1909, a systematic effort was made by the Department of Agricul- 

 ture to place boys' clubs on a standardized, uniform acre-basis in 

 all the states where the farm demonstration work was being con- 

 ducted, which included every Southern State from Virginia to 

 Texas. During the year, 10,54^ boys were enrolled, and during 



1 9 10, 46,225 bo3^s. Prize trips to Washington were offered bv 

 nearly all the Southern States in 19 10. 



Each boy was required to grow an acre of corn in his demonstra- 

 tion, and the basis for judging was as follows: 



Yield 30 per cent. 



Showing of Profit 30 per cent. 



History of Crop 20 per cent. 



Ten Ear Exhibit 20 per cent. 



Many of these boys produced over 200 bushels of com per acre. 

 One boy in Mississippi produced 227 re bushels at a cost of 14 cents 



*The writer desires to express his thanks to Drs. A. C. True and C. B. Smith 

 and Messrs. J. A. Evans and O. B. Martin, of the vStates Relations Service for 

 supplying data and correcting manuscript j)ertaining to their work. 



