Part I.] BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUB WORK. 169 



Lines of Activity. 



It will be seen from the enrollment card that the same 

 lines of activity have been followed this year as last, — the 

 home and school garden activities and the eight club projects. 

 Some minor changes, however, have been made and new work 

 started. 



The home economics work was divided into two distinct 

 lines, — garment making and bread making. 



Contests. 



To the regular work of growing and fattening a pig in the 

 summer and fall the sow and litter contest has been added. 

 We hope in this way to make it easier for the boys and girls 

 to obtain pigs. 



It has been felt for some time that the spring egg-laying 

 contest was not accomplishing as much as was desired in in- 

 teresting young people in poultry. This year, together with 

 the egg-laying contest, the young people were interested in 

 hatching, brooding and rearing chicks. This winter an egg- 

 laying contest is being conducted. 



That 30 of the 35 cities, and some 75 per cent, of the towns, 

 have carried on some form of this work this year under more 

 or less direct supervision of the college or the Farm Bureaus 

 and improvement leagues shows the interest this year and the 

 constant growing interest year by year. 



Local Leaderships. 



In one county 18 of the 20 towns appropriated money for 

 local leadership as a result of the effort of the county club 

 leader. In two other counties of the State several towns at 

 their annual meeting appropriated money for this work. In 

 several cities the school departments appropriated money for 

 club work. This money was used to pay the salary of a super- 

 visor or supervisor and assistants. 



Where county organizations failed to take up the work this 

 office worked upon request directly with the community. 



As a result of this plan of organization some 230 paid and 

 240 unpaid local leaders were at work in the State. 



