Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-06-20
200 JUVENILES
ARE ENGAGED IN
INDUSTRIAL WORK
Boys and Girls Manifest Much
Interest in Club Instructions
Gardening Cooking and
Sewing Popular,

The boys ara girls OF Benalilo
county are making history Prof. J.
f. Bentley, city Industrial club lead
er, reports that 200 or more boys and
girls will complete their club prof
Gets this year The industrial club
work outside Of the city is gaining
ground every day. At the present
time there are some thirty clubs with
in this county. about equally divided
between garden clubs chicken clubs,
cooking and sewing clubs. with few
| BOYS and girls who are interested 10
pigs. corn and other crops.
Within the city of Albuquerque the
girls seem more interested IN the in
dustrkll club work than the boys.
partly because Of The fact that cook
ing and sewing can be taken up at
any time during the year. while those
projects in which boys are most gem
orally interested should he started in
the fall or early spring
Many of the gardens are showing
up exceptionally well and the chill
dren on their small plots of ground
are supplying the family with veee-
tables as well as having Il surplus for
sale.
Professor Bentley tells a number OF
interesting stories about the work. \
little fellow about ten years old. liv-
ing on East Iron avenue. has a fine
looking garden, Irish potatoes a foot
high or more, with plenty OF radlshes
lettuce, beets. beans and mustard
This little fellow, though he may not
become a farmer, is learning some
thing. He can tell you lust how
much time he has spent on the car
den. how much his seed cost him. and
ether details go that when the year
Is over he will know whether his sar-
den was an expense or profit
Taught To Think.
The boys and girls in these projects
are not only being taught to do things.
but they are learning to think for
themselves and to solve the every
day problems They are overcoming
obstacles which are confronting not
only them. but the grown-ups. For
illustration a little boy living in the
heart of the city found that the Eng
fish sparrows were destroying his gar
den as they were doing for others.
He tried different remedies and then
worked out the following device which
is very effective: Instead of plant
ing his seeds in a bed. he planted them
in rows; at the end of each row he
drove a stake, ana strung wire or
stout string from stake to stake ON
these wires, at short intervals he
tied strips of rags which hung down
almost touching the vegetables
These strips of cloth are generally in
motion. He says that now when the
sparrows light down in flocks to de-
YOUR his garden they take one look
at those strings flying in the air.
and away they 40 10 eat up the fell
lows garden who failed to use his
brain az profitably as did this hoy.
Another interesting story Is told hy
a boy who tried for some time to
get good stand Of vegetables. The
atmosphere was dry and the sun very
hot, and before his seed could germi
nate the ground was either dried out
or the sun was so hot that the seed
would not terminate To remedy this !
he concluded that il might he we'll
to wet burlap sacks, laying them in
this condition over the seed To his |
delight he found that this kept The |
ground moist and within a few days
he had a perfect stand Of All seeds |
planted.
The club work seems to be develop |
Ing desire for pure-bred stock and
poultry for one little boy who is IN /
the club work bought a pair of thor !
oughbred pigeons at n cost of So. In |
"A short while he will be offering pure {
bred stock for sale. He also has some
of the finest Belgian hares in town !
The club work is also developing /
among the children or is |
fostering cooperation, SO much talked |
of in the business world In the !
Fourth ward there il little boy and |
his sister who have one Of the finest /
gardens in the city; they work it to-
eether play in it together and, when |
the time comes for the final exhibit /
and report, they will exhibit and re-
port together.
The club work not only pays well /
from a monetary consideration, but II t
teaches the children to use their
hrains-mixes work and play, and, in
the end substantial men and women
are developed
All the club work in Albuquerque
and Bernalillo county is being carried |
On under the direction Of the extern
sion department of the New Mexico Il
Agricultural college
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