CORRELATING AGRICULTURE IN NORTHERN STATES. 6 



SUGGESTED CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS. 1 



CONSTITUTION. 



Article I. Name of club. — This organization shall be known as 



School Boys' and Girls' Agricultural Club. 



Art. II. Objects of club. — The objects of the club shall be to make farm life more 

 attractive and farming more profitable. 



Art. III. Membership. — Boys and girls from 10 to 18 years of age, inclusive, shall 

 be eligible. 



Art. IV. Officers. — The officers of this club shall be a supervisor, president, vice 

 president, secretary, and treasurer. 



Art. V. Duties cf members. — Prescribed in the rules for club work, such as follow 

 instructions, attend club meetings, make exhibits at the school and county fair, and 

 keep a report of expenses, income, observations, and work. 



Art. VI. Duties of officers. — The president shall preside at all meetings; the secre- 

 tary shall keep the minutes and records of all such meetings; the treasurer must care 

 for all funds collected and shall pay out the same only upon the written order of the 

 president, and the vice president may act as president in the absence or disability of 

 that officer. The teacher shall be the local leader, having the general supervision of 

 all local club work and power of exercising authority in proper management of the 

 club. 



Sec. 1. An advisory committee shall arrange for all public contests and exhibits, 

 the procuring and awarding of prizes, and the reporting of statistics and other infor- 

 mation to the State organizer. 



1. The members of the club shall agree to read all reference literature bearing upon 

 the home project. This may include literature dealing with the growing of corn, 

 potatoes, tomatoes, chickens, pigs, etc. 



2. A written plan of the work of each boy and girl must be prepared for the teacher. 

 They must do all the work connected with the particular contest or project entered 

 upon. 



3. The amount of yield by weight and measurement of land and other results of 

 the spring and summer work must be certified to by the contestant and attested by at 

 least two disinterested competent witnesses preferably members of the local school 

 board who are not relatives. 



4. Every member of the club must make an exhibit at the annual school fair. 



5. In estimating profits the recommendations of the State agent in charge of boys' 



and girls' club work will be observed. B,ent of land $ , work of club members 



cents per hour, work of horses cents per hour each, manure $ per two-horse 



wagon load. 



6. No club member should be allowed to receive more than prizes. 



1 The teacher should write the State agent in charge of club work at the State agricultural college for 

 suggestions concerning the organization and conducting of a boys' and girls' agricultural club, or, in the 

 absence of such State agent, he may write directly to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, 

 D. C, for such assistance. The office for extension work of the U. S. Department of Agriculture in the 

 Northern and Western States maintains a section with a leader and assistants who give their entire time 

 to the organization and supervision of boys' and girls' club work in cooperation with the extension divi- 

 sions of the agricultural colleges in practically all of the States. The State leader in club work at the agri- 

 cultural college is usually, therefore, the joint employee of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and the 

 State agricultural college and represents both institutions alike in club work. In organizing a club, 

 therefore, through the assistance of this State leader the boys and girls are brought into and become a part 

 of the State organization as well as of the national organization for club work and receive systematic recog- 

 nition and assistance from both the State and the Nation. 



