The Carlisle independent., 1915-10-21

Sist or dennite suggestions for the club work. Extra proof sheets for each lesson will be kept for those who may decide later to undertake the course It is hoped that several hun dred teachers and others interested in work for the boys and girls will take this cOurse.-J H. Miller. Director Co., operative Extension Work.
 l. Educational Value Of Club Study.
 Education has been defined as that training which fits for the duties of lfe.' If this is a true definition of education, and we certainly believe It is, and if it can be shown that the club work in any way fits the boys and girls for their duties in life, then it must be conceded that there is an educational value in the club work
 Corn Club boys are instructed per sonally and through bulletins and let ters in the matter of f1) Selecting their acre TOT demonstration. @ the value and importance of sowing a win ter cover crop on this acre, (3) the proper methods and value of prepar-
  ing and testing of seed corn, (5) the proper methods of planting and eulti- vation, (6) the keeping of daily ex- pense account of all work performed on his acre, CD the submitting of this record at the end of the year, tS) and finally is asked to make an exhibit Of his products at the fairs
 In the study and practice of the above instructions the boy is the prin. cipal actor, and his stage of action is his acre of corn. His acre of corn may be Hkeped 10 his laboratory and the daily practice of application of the principles taught him, are the expert ments or tests that he makes, and the fact that dv-i2g the last two years the Corn Club boys have made an average yield of over forty bushels per acre as compared with an average of less than twenty for the whole state is proof positive that the principles taught were not only safe and sound. but that they found daily application l through the boy on his acre of corn l laboratory. In the performance of all 1 these activities or duties the boy is caused to think, plan and reason from | year to year as he makes different tests on different soils or in different l laboratories. All of this will give a training which will fit him for his du- 1 ties in life because he has learned ito l do by doing. He has used mother ts Jol i her principles. and has applied them
 What has been said of the Corn l Club boy is also true of the Pig Club boy. In fact the Pig Club member is usually Corn Club member too The l Pig Club boy has for his laboratory the pig, and the tests that he makes are his daily care and the feeding of his pig. He learns, as one pig club member said in reply to question as 1 to what he had learned that would help him next year, that clear water to drink, good pasture the year round. l plenty of shade and a little corn makes good cheap hogs, and further that these things are mighty good to keep off cholera" He learns what balanced ration is and the value there of He plans his crop to meet these | needs Doubtless he wonders if his body too does not call for a balanced food. Dealing with animals usually makes one kind and sympathetic His i efficiency as producer of wealth is 1 Increased as result of the applica- ion of the proper methods of feeding and caring for his pig. He, too, has learned ito do by doing
 The Canning and Poultry Clubs of fer at once profitable and pleasura- 1 ble livelihood for girls The Canning 1 Club girl has for her laboratory her one-tenth acre. She is taught how to plan this garden, how to prepare the hot beds, the birth place of the little plants, how to feed and care for the little plants until they are old enough to put into the field, how to cultivate the plants on up to maturity, how to fight the common diseases and in sects, and finally how to can and pre- serve the products of her garden In all of this work from the beginning of the sowing of the seed up to har vesting and canning of the products the girl has been the chief operator: her hands have been busy day after day hoeing, pruning. harvesting and canning. This work is done in thf open: she therefore develops a soun
 body; she enjoys her work because l s hers; her hands have done th work; her interest is in her garden ! and her aim is to produce a product or 1 high quality and thus maintain the Four H brand standard.