FOURTH ANNUAL EEPORT ON BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUB 



WORK. 



A report of junior extension work for the past year should 

 cover not only what has been done by the field workers, but 

 also what has been accomplished by the young people. 



This ofiice, like many others in the college, has suffered 

 because of unsettled times, and as a result the work has not 

 been done in the same systematic way as might have otherwise 

 been expected. 



Department Staff. 



The force comprised, December 1, 1916, three field workers 

 and one clerk. December 1, 1917, it had grown to five field 

 workers and three clerks. Within that period, however, nine 

 different field workers and four clerks have seen service. Of 

 the original workers only the supervisor and head clerk remain. 



The Massachusetts Public Safety Committee. 



The Public Safety Committee of Massachusetts furnished 

 funds which permitted of the employment of extra workers in 

 the early spring, which made possible a very considerable ex- 

 pansion of the work, and very naturally aided in the campaign 

 for increasing food production and conservation. 



The following letter was sent to those who were interested 

 in this work: — 



The committee of ten of the Public Safety Committee recommends 

 that the following methods be carried out in organizing boys and girls 

 for food production in the State of Massachusetts for the coming year: — 



First. — The local committee shall get in touch with the State leader 

 of Boys' and Girls' Club work, G. L. Farley, Amherst, Massachusetts, 

 and secure from him the plans for organization in the State. 



Second. — The local committee shall get in touch with the Farm 

 Bureau of the county and learn the plans for organization within the 

 county. 



