The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1913-12-11
THE BOYS AND GIRLS
CAN HELP YOU MAKE THAT
FARM MORE PRODUCTIVE

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this time on how to make farm life
more pleasant, an6 on how to keep
the boys and girls on the farms. This
movement is for good, and much can
be done. OF course to make farm life
more agreeable. just as much can be
done TO make village life or city life
more agreeable. But we want TO say
in passing, that farm life in most
places and especially in Colorado.
is even now more agreeable than city
life. There are many ways, OF course.
by which farm life can be made even
more agreeable. and we favor all sane
movements looking to this end, says
the Grand Junction Sentinel. And
we think one good way to make the
boys and girls like the farms better
is to give them chances to make some
money of their own. This may be
done, and is done.-in many ways.
In many states the Boys Corn Clubs
are doing much to give the boys in
creased interest in the farms. for ny
the competitive element upon which
they are founded they put the boy on
his mettle and incite him with a de-
sire to excel his competitors.
Many OF the members OF these clubs
have shown their fathers how 10
greatly increase their corn yields.
Next to the competitive element. by
which the boy pits himself against
the other boy club members OF a
country, the important feature is that
the boy. who does all the work OF
growing his acre OF corn, gets all the
net profit he makes his acre produce.
Corn culture is sadly in need Of i'm
provement on the Western Slope.
Why not organize some Boys Corn
Clubs and let the boys show how to
increase the yield.
To take the boys and girls in part
nership is not only fair play to the
boys and girls themselves. but is good
business for the parents. as 1t does
much to keep the growing generation
satisfied. And there are many ways
by which boys and girls can make
some money for themselves and at the
same time help the farm-as keeping
bees on the fruit farms. growing a
few pigs on pigless farms or or
chards. or by growing turkeys or
chickens.
IL is an axiom that a man who
does not like his should not keep his.
But an orchardist or a farmer who
does not like his. or does not want to
bother with them" may have n son
or daughter, who does like them and
would keep to them. And no matter
how much we consider our orchards
elf-pollenizing. the fact remains that
orchards where there are plenty of
bees produce fuller crops and lose
less by the fruit dropping than or
chards that are not visited by an
ample number of bees. Beekeepins
Is nice work for either boys or girls.
it Is profitable. and there is always
market for honey.
Orchards as well as farms need
pigs. In an orchard they find almost
s'l their own food. They destroy
worms by eating the wormy and fall
en- fruit. they add to the fertility OF
the land. they Increase rapidly and
they are always marketable at good
prices. Why not take the boys In
partnership on enough pigs to eat up
the feed that now goes to waste.
Any girl or lady can care for from
100 to 200 chickens and not interfere
with her duties on the farm. And
she can thus earn some money OF
her own. and will like her farm home
all the better.
And turkeys. which any boy or girl
can grow, are immensely profitable