American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-08-05

him with a view OF securing the best
variety for the dry farmer and it is
quite safe to say that his field will
yield from forty to fifty bushels tol
the acre. The value of peas as a for
age crop for this country cannot be ov-
erestimated and for the farmer who
has a bunch of hogs to finish OFF be-
fore marketing they are invaluable
There is so much of real value to the
farmer to be found at the experiment
station that it would be a real waste
of time for me to try to tell you about
it. Have your farmers go there and
see for themselves. Get up holiday
and arrange for day there"
Boys and Girls Club Work in Idaho.
"My real work is with the depart
ment devoted to the organization and
DEVELOPMENT of the boys and girls
school farm clubs in Idaho, and | am
pleased to find in American Falls one
of the largest and livest sewing clubs
we have. Miss Whistler, your county
superintendent, is fully alive to the
great importance of this work and is
doing splendid work Her plan for
this fall will call for the complete or
ganization of her county in the club
work and next spring we will have
the boys and girls all at work in corn.
potato. pig. sewing, bread making, or
some one of the numerous lines or
activity carried on by this department
This work is fostered by the agricul-
tural extension department, the United
States Department of Agriculture CO.
operating and this year Idaho has
more than 10000 boys and girls in club
work. More than five thousand are
engaged in the poultry club work,
many of them going in for the very
best in breeding and last year we had
at the state poultry exhibit at Boise,
quite a number of fowls exhibited by
poultry club children which were high
up in the list of awards. In some
parts of the state manual training
classes have been organized, and at
Lorenzo, two of the boys have built,
entirely alone, fine bungalow. The
building is constructed of concrete
blocks which they cast and aside from
the assistance of mason they did all
the work themselves. Another of our
boys now has more than a thousand
dollars worth of fine Poland China
hogs, this being his third year in the
pig club work. This VIII give you an
idea of what club work means. 1t is
the greatest agricultural movement
being carried on in the world. In
the towns our young folks have their
garden and back yard club work and
many unkempt back yards have been
1 converted through their efforts into
pretty flower or vegetable gardens
/ Teach the children to work. Teach
them to know that from their earliest
I years they may be useful; that they
can accomplish really big and useful
things: that they can earn money FOL
themselves and you have solved the
problem of handling the boy or girl
restless with farm LIE. Teach them
as the department does, by the a;c
of its bulletins and courses of in
struction, the beauty of the trees, the
beauty and value of better bred horses
COWS, hogs, poultry, etc. teach then
they can make these things better
, more beautiful, more productive. thar
did their fathers before them and yol
will be aiding the greatest education
al work in our great state.
1T is work which needs and de
serves the moral support of every tai
payer in Idaho, work the fruition o
which means better boys and girls
) better men and women better farm
ers; better housewives, and above al
= greater, bigger and better Idaho"