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enrolled pig club members, 12,847 reporting produced 4,423,081 

 pounds of pork, valued at $947,570. Baby beef club members 

 reporting produced 589,123 pounds of beef, valued at $106,231. 

 Rabbit and chicken club members reporting, raised 26,322 rabbits 

 and 331,072 chicks, and produced 133,566 dozen eggs. Boys' and 

 girls' sheep and calf clubs raised 8,005 lambs and 2,474 calves, the 

 latter for dairy purposes. In addition, club members produced 

 313, 778 bushels of corn, 646,503 bushels of potatoes, 22,399 tons 

 of sugar beets and 2,867 bushels of beans. 



So much for the material benefits. A county school superintend- 

 ent reported in 19 15 that there were 4,000 members of the boys' 

 pig club in school and not one was suspended or expelled. The 

 club members averaged 11 per cent better than non-members in 

 school work, except that they averaged 23 per cent better in com- 

 position and 1 6 per cent better in spelling. Church attendance was 

 5 per cent and Sunday school 7 per cent better among members 

 than non-members. 



Another student of the boys' club work states that club work 

 makes for broadening of vision, awakening of spirit and building 

 of character in the members and for spreading the basic virtues 

 throughout the community. 



County agents are observing and reporting the valuable leader- 

 ship exercised in different communities by former members of boys* 

 clubs who have become substantial leaders in their communities. 

 The value of the club work as a means of solving problems in pro- 

 duction, organization and marketing, and of crystalizing the 

 thought of the future at an important and impressionable period of 

 life can scarcely be overestimated. 



Thus the extension work among children is accomplishing essen- 

 tially the same excellent results that are found among the children 

 who are so fortunate as to include nature-study with qualified 

 teachers in their school work. If narrower than nature-study in its 

 scope, extension work as we now see it has an advantage in the 

 coordination of action and sympathy in the multitude of groups of 

 the rural men and women of tomorrow, whose vocations and 

 environments are similar. 



The extension work among adults is accomplishing an intelligent 

 unification of agricultural interest and purpose, with improved 

 spirit and breadth of vision. It also affords us a strengthened 

 guarantee that the necessities of life will continue to be produced in 

 sufficient quantities for our entire citizenship, under wholesome and 

 increasingly attractive home conditions. 



