The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-02-28

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We are urging that every boy and
girl between the ages of 10 and 1S
will try and do their bit as never
before by joining some productive
club. We have the Square-Rod Gar
den Club. Every boy and girl over
ten years of age should enjoy the
fun of having their own garden-and
work in it. We know theresare diff
ficulties in gardening in the south
west as we'll as everywhere, but we
shall try to overcome those difficult
ties. In a set of slides that Miss Mel
son lectures on there are slides which
show how to prepare the soil, build
the hot bed, make the cold frame,
terminate the garden seed, transplant
the seed several times and plant the
garden, also how to protect the gar
den by windbreaks. There are sew
eral kinds of wind breaks as shown
in these slides. Miss Nelson will
give these slides next Monday night
at the court room in the court house,
and all children as well as grown-up
people interested in gardens and gar
den-making should see the pictures.
There is so much said about not
being able to raise a garden here
but l do know that many very nice
gardens were raised last summer in
Liberal and all around Liberal so the
thing to do is to plant and water and
then see what happens.
A lady near Plains sold from $50
to $40 worth of garden produce last
summer. A girl up in District No. 8
raised a nice garden last summer.
Miss Jordan, principal of the Kismet
school, raised an exceptionally fine
garden and she made it pay for itself.
Miss Jordan says it's hard work but
it's possible. She says: 81 was out
in my garden on windy as well as
calm days." and there is the point-it
takes work and earnest work to do
anything worth while. What we get
for nothing we do not want in most
cases-and very few people accept
what they haven't worked for.
1t would be profitable for the boys
and girls in the Liberal Clubs to have
a poultry meeting and discuss the
profit and economy in having chick
ems. We have some of the best poul-
try raisers in the state here in Lib
eral and wish they would push the
poultry proposition. The state will
surely appreciate their cooperation.
We have very few girls and boys in
the poultry clubs and wish twenty or
more would join our club very soon.
If the boys and girls had access to
The Farmers Mail and Breeze and
read page Fl especially of the Feb
ruary issue they would understand
better what there is in poultry rails
ing.
There are several children who
have joined the bread club. They
receive six recipes from the state and
make number of bakings of each
of them, report their work and re-
ceive acknowledgement. If they are
members of the bread club they can
bake for the fairs and be candidates
for prizes, otherwise they cannot. In
all the counties the members bring
their samples to the county fairs.
We must have big county fair in
Seward county this year for we have
almost a hundred boys and girls who
must exhibit their club work and that
alone will make big Agricultural
Fair. There can be no financial loss
to Liberal to hold such fair and the
heavy work of collecting the exhib-
its will be all done very systematic
ally as that is state work.
Here are some very useful recipes.