Western Kansas world., 1915-03-27
Boys and Girls Agricultural Clubs
REQUIREMENTS

Boys and Girls Agricultural Clubs
REQUIREMENTS
Age-Boys and girls who wish to
enroll in any of these clubs must be
from ten to eighteen years of age at
the time of enrolment.
Time of Enroilment-Time of en-
rollment will vary with the different
Clubs-for exact limit see different
Clubs
Piedge-Each Club member is asked
to fill out and sign the membership
pledge which reads as follows, and
of which may be secured from the
local leaders or State Director Boys
and Girls Clubs, Manhattan.
Date .19l. County .
hereby make application for
memberfhip in the Boys and Girls
Club, and / shall
endeavor to follow all instructions,
attend local meetings, exhibit
products from my crop at local insti-
tute or exhibit, / will keep an accur-
ate record of my work, expense, and
receipts, and will make a complete
crop report at close of the season and
forward same to the Country Leader
or to the State Director of Boys and
Girl Clubs, Manhattan.
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Age
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RECORDS AND REPOTTs
While every phase of the Club
work is absolutely free so far as Club
members are concerned, it should be
borne in mind that considerable time
| and money are required on the part
of local leaders, the Agricultural Col
| lege. and the q. s. Department of
Agriculture, to conduct the work,
| the work successfully. This makes
it necessary to require certain records
and reports from each Club member,
for wherever public institutions
spend either time or money in the
! promotion of any movement, they
are expected to show records of the
work. These records, in the Club
/ work, must of course, come from the
Club members themselves. So each
.fGfubs is requested to keep accurate
records of the different steps pursued,
the time and money spent ins the
growing of crops, or whatever time
or money is spent in the carrying out
of the pledge. Since no fee is charged,
it is sincerely hoped that no member
will fail to show his or her apprecia-
tion of the work by complying with
this request. In fact, no boy who is
really interested in his work will fail
to keep these records. He cannot afford
not to keep them, and if he is the
type who succeeds even though the
odds are against him, he will not only
want his own records, but he will al
so want them from the chap who
happens to excel him. This kind of
a young man will consider it to be
not only worth his while to know
who excelled him, but he will want
to know just how it was done. This
is just as true for the girls. From
the reports sent in by the different
members any interested boy or girl
! may know just what yields, profits,
etc., the different members reported
Throughout their State. Also, records
may be had showing the reports from
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ADDITIONAL LABOR PRoyIso
i Boys and girls who enroll in
these Clubs with the proper spirit
| will not want any one, not even their
4 parents, to do work which they them
/ selves can do in connection with their
i club projects. In fact, the Club
movement is based on this supposi-
tion. There are certain tasks, how
4 ever, especially in the girls contests,
which make the employing of help
necessary. For example, the Tomato
Club girls are not able to do such
work as piowing or spading. and fire.
tquently some of the boys find parts of
4 their work too heavy for them. 1t
i happens now and then too, that a
II contestant Is i'll when his or her crop
may need attention. In all such
cases, the securing of additional help
!. will be permissible, but weneyer such
help is secured, contestants will be
expected TO give a complete report of
| same and charge it to the cost of pro-