EDUCATION AND INFORMATION 1055 



Documents. The Journal of Research is technical and designed only for 

 libraries and college and experiment station workers. In addition to these 

 mentioned, the department issues a year-book annually which is also free. 

 It also issues the crop reporter monthly which gives statistics on the condi- 

 tion, acreage and farm price of farm products, and also gives each year 

 the numbers of different classes of livestock and their farm value. 



All farmers are privileged to have their names placed on the depart- 

 ment monthly mailing list of publications. This brings them the number 

 and title of all department bulletins and circulars issued during the month. 

 Having this list, they may send for those that will be of interest to them. 



Libraries.— Farmers, as well as men in other occupations, should have 

 access to a library. It is more difficult to establish and maintain libraries 

 of much consequence in the country than it is in villages or cities. In the 

 country the school or grange should be the agency through which small 

 libraries could be established. With the large number of available free 

 publications a library of much value can be assembled with little cost. 



To overcome the difficulties in establishing libraries in the country, 

 the moving library has recently been inaugurated. This is a case of books 

 varying in number and consisting of those pertaining to various phases of 

 farming, as well as some of fiction. A set of books is supplied to a neigh- 

 borhood, where it is placed in charge of an individual. The books may 

 be secured by neighbors, returned and others secured until the set has 

 been read by most of those interested. It is then returned to the central 

 library and another set secured. 



Boys' and Girls' Clubs. — -The object of these clubs is to interest the 

 boys and girls in the business affairs of the farm, and in order to create 

 interest the members are induced to compete for prizes. This is the 

 stimulus which induces the boy or girl to study the problem in which he 

 is engaged. Prizes are offered for the largest jdeld of corn or potatoes on 

 an acre or fraction of an acre of ground. This induces the boy to use the 

 best seed that he can secure, to prepare the ground in the best possible 

 way, and use the manure or kind of fertilizer that will give best results. 

 The problem of economic production, as well as large yield, is generally 

 taken into consideration in this connection. A careful presentation of the 

 method of procedure is also taken into account. In a similar way, girls 

 compete in the growing of tomatoes or other vegetables. 



These clubs to be effective should be under the direction of a com- 

 petent teacher who can guide and train the participants. The boys and 

 girls in the country are excellent material on which those interested in 

 agricultural betterment can work. These clubs have not only a direct 

 stimulating and educational effect, but they often pave the way for a higher 

 education. "Knowledge is power" applies to the man on the farm with 

 as much force as to the man in any other occupation. Farm surveys have 

 shown that farmers with college training are making larger incomes than 

 those whose schooling ended in the high school. Those who completed 



