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gallon tin can, which will hold from five to one dozen ears of corn, per can, 

 and I take it that the average Pennsylvania family is not too large to get 

 along very well with one can to the meal. Most of you have come expect- 

 ing to see all the lantern slides to illustrate this work. Owing to the 

 lateness of the hour, I am forced to leave out a large number of them, and 

 to leave much unsaid, in connection with those that I use. My system is 

 full of this club work, and I always regret that time is too short to get it 

 all out and thus relieve my mental tension before I leave the floor. My 

 first experience in this line of work was some 14 years ago in the State of 

 Iowa, where I had my initial experience, in seeing the benefits of club 

 organization work with young people, and its influence upon the adults 

 of the community, and s'nce that time, I have been doing more or less of 

 this work every year, and the longer I work at it, the more of constructive 

 value I see in this activity for a greater American agriculture. 



The boys and girls during the past year have been at work in at least 

 one of the following activities: corn club work on the acre basis, potato 

 club work on the J or | acre basis, garden and canning club work, vacation 

 canning and marketing work, poultry clubs, good roads, alfalfa club, sugar 

 beet clubs, etc. And then some of them are engaged in what may be called 

 a pig club. My idea of this line of work is that the best way to organize 

 a pig club is to grow an acre of corn and raise a pig along with it. Other- 

 wise, this boy's pig is liable to ''sponge" on some of father's corn and feed 

 rations. One very important thing in connection with this club work 

 is to have these children understand that you are requiring of them a busi- 

 ness undertaking, a job like that of the father's, or a man's job, and they 

 will be proud of their work and will be glad to measure up to your require- 

 ments. The nearer we can come to this manly or womanly ideal, the more 

 nearly we have the enduring thing to offer the boys and girls. Some people 

 conflne their efforts in club activities which are mere school exercises and 

 to the making of a big yield, without any regard to economic production, 

 and this usually encourages excessive use of fertilizers, and in many 

 instances the yield has been made at a loss rather than on a net profit. 

 While in county work in the State of Iowa, I had one experience of this 

 character, that taught me a lesson that I shall not soon forget. The 

 champion boy with a great big yield was severely criticised by all of his 

 farmer neighbors, because he lost over $11.60 in his business transaction., 

 One very prominent and influential farmer of that same neighborhood 

 came to me and said, ''I, too, could make a great big yield of corn, if I did 

 not have to pay for the bread and butter, clothing, schooling and general 

 expenses of my family," and charged me with the thought that I had given 

 the boys in the county the improper ideal, and had hindered rather than 

 helped agriculture. From that day to this, I have been talking and working 

 on the other basis, viz, the business unit, and with seme emphasis on the 

 net profit on investment, and I find in this connection, that if I wish to 

 secure the gre^tegt benefit to the boy, culturely, ethicafly, or even spiritu- 



