The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1915-05-20
.ME|kLE TO WORK
WITH THE k|DD|Es
Instructor in Agriculture has
Been Engaged Jointly by
Local and PascO Boards

Local and PaScO Boards
The school board, recognizing the
trend in agricultural education toward
the practical, and the extent, to which
agricultural club work among the
children contributes to the effective
ness of that work, has made arrange
ments for VIM. Meikle, teacher of
agriculture in the high school, to stay
in Kennewick for one month after the
close of school to assist the. two hum
dred or more children who have en-
tered the variou club activities and
those who have entered the contest
work for the school children's exhibit
atrthe Grape Carnival. Dates for the
enrolment Of the children in the Car
nival contests have been.extended to
June 18th, so all who get their en-
rollment to Mr.. :Meikle or Mr.. Lewis
by that date will be allowed to partici-
pate and in addition will receive the
assistance of Mr.. Meikle's advice in
regard to their work. Calls will be
made upon these children at their
homes and their work planned with
them and regularly inspected from
time to time. Notification of entry
or of desire for assistance can be sent
to Mr.. Meikle BY mail, or he can be
called up at telephone number 1151
until June Is. -.
Pasco has also taken up this work
through their schools and has Sc
cured part of Mr.. Meikle's time dur
ing the first month Of this summer.
There have been more than hundred
entries Of school children IN the var
ious clubs and contest work there and
they are making extensive plans for
an exhibit which will excel the ex-
cellent results obtained the last two
years. Some possible arrangements
may be made later for a contest be-
tween the school children Of the east
ern part. of Benton county and the
children of Franklin county, the state
superintendent of public instruction
having arranged for cash prizes for
such contests. The amount of prize
money available for two counties CO.
operating in such a contest is one
hundred twenty-five dollars.
Agricultural club work among the
children of agricultural and horticul-
tural communities has become one Of
the leading branches Of extension
work by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, that department
now having organizers Of such work
in many of the states, particularly in
the south and middle west. The won
derful success Of the Iowa, Missouri,
Indiana and Illinois corn club contests
among the boys and girls of these
states testifies to the effectiveness Of
work of this kind by the national de-
partment Of agriculture. The work
has also been taken up in the dif-
ferent states by the agricultural coll
leges and experiment station staffs,
and many Of the states now have from
one to three or four men giving their
entire time to agricultural club work
among boys and girls. Washington
has two such men, Mr.. Newbill of the
state college and Mr.. Thomason from
the Office of the state superintendent
at Olympia. Mr.. Newbill lectured on
canning club work in Kennewick last
winter and is to return within the
next two weeks to assist in starting
the canning club work among the To-
cal club members. The interest and
cooperation Of parents for this work
with the children is solicited in order
that the greatest benefit may be de-
rived from it. The instructor will
be ready to respond to calls from the
children at any time, will visit their
work and advise and plan with them,
and will have for distribution litera-
ture from the national department Of
Agriculture designed especially for
assisting children in agricultural club
activities.