The Prescott daily news., 1914-12-24

have had charge of the club work, have found a few men who had hun dred or more acres in cultivation and, yet could not spare as much as one acre for his boy in corn or one tenth of an acre for his girl in garden. 1 just want to say that the man who is not willing to give his boy an acre for corn, or an acre for peanuts, or a pig, or who is not willing to give his girl tenth of an acre for garden, that such man does not care much for his own children and does not deserve the name of Farmer. At the same time I have found boys and girls who were anxious to join the club to see what they could do but were denied by such men as above mentioned.
 feel that there is nothing too good for our farmer boys and girls and l feel that we should not spare any time in getting busy to give the boys and SHlo di SoIiy u oiiiiiS III P1eiSeiSoi education. We hear on every hand how obsolete or impracticable our system of farming is, but if I am to judge by the character of the schools that I have visited last month in fourteen counties in the southern part of the State, I should say our system of schools is not far behind our system of farming, due, of course, to lack of funds to build up the sys- tenn.
 This thing called diversified farm ing" or better system of farm ing," is all matter of education, and it seems to me that if our present system is wrong, which it certainly is, that the thing that we should get about now is to keep our boys from getting into this system, system that we are trying to get their fathers out of. This is my view of the matter and is, in short, the purpose of the boys and girls demonstration club work, and as long as it may be in my charge, I want the farmers of this state to know that I am working as hard as 1 can to keep your boy from getting into the system of farming that we are trying to get you out of. Will you not, therefore, give your boy a running chance with the ether boys by giving him an acre for corn, a horse and blow when he wants it and all the corn he can make on that acre CT will you not give him a pig, and let him see if he can't ake that pig outweigh any other boys pig in this state, and then give him all the money that he secured from the sale of that pig? Will you not give your daughter a little plat of land, one tenth of an acre for her garden and all the proceeds from that garden, or few young hens and let her seen what she can learn about raising chickens and how much shec an clear during the year from her chickens? If you will dO CillS, A'il. I eiillicig y yOu WILL bC dOtllS something worth while for your own children, will be giving them an in- terest in the farm and way of earr- ing money for themselves-then may be they will love to do their work and will not leave you by the time they get into their "teens." If you live in a county having a demonstration agent see that your boys and girls get into the club by writing that agent. If you haven't an agent, send the name, age and address of the boys and girls to me. There will be corn, Pig clubs and peanut clubs for boys and canning clubs and poultry clubs for girls.
 Every boy and girl ought to be ir some one or all of these clubs. We