166 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [P. D. 4. 



Third. — A group of eight or ten interested citizens shall call a meeting 

 of adults and children, at which time the boys' and girls' work and the 

 method of organization shall be presented. At the close of the meeting 

 those interested should be assembled in the front of the room and their 

 names and addresses listed by the committee. The children should then 

 be instructed to secure plots of ground suitable in size. A boy or girl 

 between the ages of twelve and eighteen years should be able to care for 

 at least one-twentieth of an acre. Smaller children may work smaller 

 pieces. As soon as the ground has been secured a second meeting of the 

 boys and girls should be held. The members securing ground should then 

 be organized in a group of from five to thirty children, and an adult leader 

 placed in charge of each group. 



The children should be instructed in planting products that may be 

 used fresh and canned for winter use. Products should also be grown 

 that may be dried or placed in cellar storage. 



There are four methods for following up the work and maintaining 

 interest during the summer: — 



1. Printed instructions will be sent to the boys and girls from the 

 Farm Bureaus and the Agricultural College. 



2. The children should be assembled under a local leader to discuss and 

 study these printed instructions. 



3. The local leader should make personal visits from time to time dur- 

 ing the summer to the garden plots of the members under his leadership. 



4. Field meetings should be held where the members are assembled, 

 for instruction in cultivation, preservation and storage. 



Each club or organization should train three or four members as a 

 demonstration team to demonstrate in the community the better prac- 

 tices of production, conservation and storage. These demonstration teams 

 should be used to demonstrate before schools, public meetings, granges 

 and other civic organizations. 



The Agricultural College, through the Farm Bureaus, will send into each 

 county instructors to train the local leaders in canning, drying and pre- 

 serving. Application for these training schools should be made to the 

 extension service at the Agricultural College. 



During the summer arrangements should be made for an exhibit of 

 products, canned fruit and vegetables, dried products, drying equipment 

 and storage construction in the local community. The exhibit should 

 consist of three distinct parts: — 



First. — Products as above named. 



Second. — Demonstrations in the practices of canning, drying and 

 storage. 



Third. — Judging contests between club members to train members 

 to recognize products of quality. 



Instructions for these judging contests and general outlines for con- 

 ducting exhibits may be secured from the State leader in charge of the 

 club work at Amherst, Massachusetts. 



