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community. The child often leads the parent to follow 

 better methods of production. 



Lines of Work. — There is little uniformity in the lines 

 of woTk followed by clubs in different localities. Many have 

 carried on contests in corn growing (Fig. 153). A few have 

 taken up tomato growing. Lettuce clubs, onion clubs, sugar 

 beet clubs, potato clubs, sweet-potato clubs, alfalfa clubs, cot- 



FlG. 152. — The rural school is a good place for the garden fair. The whole neighbor- 

 hood may become interested. (Children's Flower Mission, Cleveland.) 



ton clubs, pickle clubs, general vegetable garden clubs, home 

 beautifying clubs, poultry and swine clubs — ^all these, and 

 doubtless many others, are found in different localities, for 

 both boys and girls. (See the contest list in this chapter.) 



Special lines of work have been taken up by girls' clubs, 

 such as cooking, bread making, canning, sewing and poultry 

 raising. 



Educational leaders and club workers continually empha- 



