The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-11-02
The Boys and Girls Convention.
The Agricultural and Canning Clubs of
Waldo County Hold Sessions IN Belfast
Oct. 9th and 2Sth.

The Agricultural and Canning CLUBS OF
Waldo County Hold Sessions in Belfast
Oct. 9th and 28th.
About sixty delegates of the Boys ana 1lris
Agricultural and Canning Clubs OF Waldo
county were in Belfast Oct. 9th and 18th. to
attend their second annual convention. The
first delegates arrived on the Friday morning
train. and were met at the station by the Boy
Scouts under the direction of Scout Master
Orrin j. Dickey and escorted to Memorial hall
for registration and assignment OF rooms.
which the citizens had generously placed at
their disposal. Other delegates came by team
and auto.
At IL O'Clock ]. H. Bodwell, the Piscataquis
county agent for farm demonstration work,
gave practical and interesting talk on "Pig
and Pig Management which held the close at
tention of both the boys and girls. number
of whom made notes of practical points. He
said that the keynote of the present day is
scientific farming. which also includes the care
of all animals, and these clubs are fast becom-
ing the medium by which the demonstrators
of the University of Maine are reaching the
farmers. young and old. Mr.. Bodwell spoke OF
the care of pigs, the selection of stock, feed
ing, housing. marketing. etc. 1t was the hret
talk of the kind before the clubs and was
greatly appreciated.
The Friday afternoon session opened at l.S0
O'Clock. Prof. Ralph P. Mitchell. State Leader
of the clubs presided and introduced Mayor
1bo
cordial welcome and assured the boys and girls
that he was in full sympathy with this grand
movement. He said he was born in Thorndike
and spent most Of his school vacations on a
hillside farm and remembered now what coun-
try life was. He told true story of one
young man who W ent back to the country from
his city home and made wonderful success, the
first year showing profit of $500 on what
seemed rum out farm. In again welcoming
his hearers to the city he said that the citizens
generally ,and the Board of Trade in particular,
would do all in their power to make their stay
pleasant and profitable.
Oh aries M. Howes of Liberty, chairman of
the Waldo County Pomona Grange committee,
gave splendid response to this royal well
come. He told the boys that if they behaved
well on this their second convention, on their
third che mayor might give them the keys to
the city, He told of the good work the Agri-
cultural Clubs of Waldo county were doing
and how much they appreciated the interest
the citizens, the banks and the Board of Trade
of Belfast had taken in making it possible to
meet here again. Mayor Keene remarked here
that the boys would need no keys; everything
was open to them in the city.
Miss Mary l. Haskell of the University of
Maine Extension Department, and leader of
the Girls Clubs of Maine, gave an interesting
talk. Miss Haskell visited Belfast year ago
and organized in waldo county Garden and
Canning Club for girls. in which 81 girls were
enrolled as members. While only four of the
girls competing had brought in exhibits she
was proud to state that Miss Emma Slipp of
Belfast, one of the -four, led the State, compet-
ing with boys and girls in every county and
making the largest net profits recorded-$226
three-ffths of an acre, which is equal to
$3.50 profit per acre. She hired the ground
plowed and planted, keeping an exact account
of every cent paid out for labor and seeds, and
gave the growing crops her constant atten-
ton, and marketed them herself in the city
and shipped several lots to Boston. The vege-
tables raised were potatoes, carrots, cabbages,
beets and turnips. Miss Slipp will be 10 in De-
cember next and is at present attending the
Belfast High school preparatory to taking a
course next year at the University of Maine,
where she will specialize in Home economics.
The money earned this season, and what she
expects to earn next year will help to defray
her expenses. The other girls were Mona
Burgess, Jennie Spear and Winnie Welch.
To encourage those present Miss HASKELL
told of what other girls were doing in various
parts of the State and how the Women's Clubs
of Mt. Desert were helping the girls to market
their goods; one little receiving order
for 200 cans of corn and all the peas and beans
she could furnish. She also touched briefly on
the wonderful things done by the club mem
bers in Massachusetts and of their exhibits at
Springfield Mass. The work of the Cooking
and Housekeeping Club was clearly defined
and earnestly recommended. Miss Haskell
warned the boys to be careful or the girls
would take all the honors offered for club
work.
The poultry exhibit in the large anteroom
also came in for an interesting inspection. Miss
Hattie E. Mckinley of Jackson exhibited two
pullets and a cockerel. lightweight. Light
Brahmas; Lloyd Bickford of Jackson, same;
Walter Whitehead of Belfast and Emma ].
Slipp of Belfast, White Wyandottes: Kathleen
M. Colcord of Belfast, Brown Wyandottes;
Raymond Hall of Brooks. Rhode Island Reds;
Charlie Stevens of Brooks. White Wvandottes;
Jerome Quimby of Brooks, Barred Plymouth
Rocks, Saturday morning the poultry pens
were placed with the vegetables and canning
exhibits to be photographed. making most
creditable showing for the youth of Waldo
county.
From to $50 p. m. the delegates. under the
direction of Mr.. Dickey. visited Mathews
Bros mill, the plants of the Saco Valley Cam
ming Co., the Lubec Sardine Co. and the Coe
Mortimer Co., in all of which those in charge
explained their working and answered ques.
tions of those interested.
At $50 p. m, about rs gathered for banquet
in the Methodist vestry, rendered by the Board
of Trade. Music was furnished by Sturgis and
Lillian Dexter, cornet and piano, and Hazel
Doak, violin. Rev. Horace B. Sellers acted as
toastmaster at the after dinner speeches Nor