Photograph from U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 POLKTON POULTRY CLUB: ANSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA 



"If the rural housewife will not come to the school of domestic science, we will take 

 that school to her." Such is the latest idea in agricultural extension work. Under the new 

 Smith-Lever Law, the U. S. Department of Agriculture will, besides organizing dairying, 

 poultry, textile, and food study clubs, giving lectures, and conducting correspondence courses, 

 send its agents directly into the homes and show the housewives how to make all sorts of 

 labor-saving devices, from a tireless cooker costing twenty-five cents to a roller table to 

 carry the family meal from the kitchen stove to the dinner table (see text, page 101). 



other boys under similar terms. In this 

 way he has planned an endless chain of 

 pigs and an ever-increasing circle of boy 

 club members. 



It seems certain that the wonderful re- 

 sults achieved through the boys' and 

 girls' clubs in the United States will 

 eventually lead to their adoption by every 

 progressive government. Probably no 

 other work can be as influential in pro- 

 moting the world-wide adoption of mod- 

 ern methods of farming as the work 

 among the children. 



That habit of mind of the grown-up 

 which makes a man ashamed to be out- 

 done by a child, serves to stimulate the 

 adult farmer when the children of his 



community are engaged in club work. 

 The enthusiasm of youth is thus capital- 

 ized, and the nearly 300,000 boys and 

 girls who are now engaged in this work 

 in America, will form a future army of 

 food producers, who will not only be 

 good farmers and farmers' wives, but 

 who will inspire hundreds of thousands 

 of others to profit by their examples. 



ALL ROADS LEAD TO THL DINNER TABLE 



Could we, like the great French writer, 

 Maupassant, turn lose our fancy as we 

 dine, we could see a great army of men 

 and women working that we might eat. 

 The appetites of men now levy tribute 

 upon all the continents and all the seas, 



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