THE DEMONSTRATION WORK 



counties where potato clubs are undertaken, one-eighth of the 

 acre can well be devoted to potatoes. Summer legumes and 

 annual grasses for pasture, hay and humus will be in order 

 for the remainder of the acre or the whole acre after the winter 

 crops are taken off. When this acre is put into corn again in 

 the rotation, the boy will have a fine opportunity to observe 

 the effects of the different crops on the improvement of the 

 soil. Under this plan boys who make large yields will doubt- 

 less be able to repeat on the same acre. It should be a matter 

 for serious thought that the boys who have produced the large 

 yields have not been able to ' ' come back, ' ' when they use the 

 same land the second year. By following even a simple two- 

 year rotation, combined with live stock feeding, the boys will 

 continue to get large yields at low costs. By seed selection and 

 breeding they will improve quality and increase economical 

 yields in small grains and legumes just as they have with corn. 

 They will develop the best. 



There are several thousand boys who are members of the 

 pig clubs. Under the stimulation and encouragement of 

 public-spirited business men, some of these boys have started 

 into the hog business without having grown any crops to feed 

 the pigs. Every one of these boys should promptly select his 

 acre ^nd begin with the small-grain and legume crops. He 

 should have some grazing for his pigs just as soon as possible. 

 He has really entered the farm club work without passing 

 through the first grade. He may, however, join in at this 

 stage of advancement, for he will get an opportunity to do 

 the corn club work when that activity is taken up again. By 

 growing his pig and his feed crops the land is prepared for 

 good work with corn during the second year of his club 

 membership. 



The smaller boys, during the first two years of their mem- 



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