No. 4.] BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUB WORK. 463 



Rules and Regulations. 



1. Members of this club shall be between the ages of ten and eighteen, 



2. The period of competition shall be from February 1 to August 1. 



3. There are four classes open for competition, — 1, 2, 3, 4, — and 

 the number of hens or pullets entered in each class must be 6, 12, 25, 

 50, respectively. 



4. The contesting fowls must be leg-banded (leg bands to be fur- 

 nished by the college). 



5. Members competing must own the fowls under their management. 



6. The fowls may be of the club members' own raising, or may be 

 obtained through a purchase or gift. 



7. Standard-bred stock of one variety is recommended, but not re- 

 quired. Any variety or combination of varieties — pullets or hens — 

 may be entered. 



8. Layers must have from 5 to 8 square feet of floor space per bird. 



9. Data must be kept according to record card and report blanks fur- 

 nished. 



10. Records every four weeks and final reports must be sent in 

 promptly. 



Nearly 100 contestants carried their enterprise to completion. 

 The prizes were the same as for home economics. The winners 

 in the egg-production contest were as follows : first prize, Ray- 

 mond D. Blethen, Haverhill; second prize, Arthur O. Seher, 

 Westfield ; third prize, Dorothy Page, Hudson ; Richard F. De- 

 vine, Foxborough ; George E. Parker, Lynn ; F. Gushing Foss, 

 Norwood; Earl Augustus Garde, Lynn; Lucian W. Brown, Jr., 

 Natick; Clarence E. Goodnow, Millington; Kenfred A. Root, 

 Easthampton; Murray S. Graves, Williamsburg; and Louis 

 E. Pelletier, Norwood; fourth prize, Clara H. Van Lennep, 

 Great Barrington ; H. Raymond Baker, Amherst ; Chester S. 

 Woodard, Leverett ; Harold E. Thomson, North Dartmouth ; 

 Dwight H. Eaton, South Hadley Falls ; Richard C. Peck, Bard- 

 wells Ferry ; Andrew Carl Rice, Wilbraham ; Meyer Koran, 

 East Saugus ; Ida L. Eddy, North Wilbraham ; and Francis Mc- 

 Elligott, Westfield. 



There were some notable results obtained by the members of 

 this club during the six months' contest. Raymond D. Blethen 

 of Haverhill, winner of first prize, with 12 birds, got 101 eggs 

 per hen. The enterprise gave him a net profit of $22.52. 

 Arthur O. Seher of Westfield, with the same number of hens, 



