The Glenwood post., 1919-04-19
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS

The slogan of the day is "Organiza-
tion," meaning that get together idea
with common purpose, which is to
join hands as group for the benefit
of all.
Garfield county boys and girls have
made some wonderful records in various
phases of club work, but we must not
allow ourselves to become satisfied
over past achievements to the extent
that we neglect to put forth our utmost
efforts toward more and better work
along our chosen line.
Every city, town, village, and coun-
try school should have its garden and
canning club. Every available acre Of
soil should be made to produce its max
imum of food products not only for
the purpose of helping to feed the
world, but to give some boy or girl
practical lesson in industry while
watching the mysteries of nature un-
fold before their eyes.
People in general are apt to over
look the many beauties and wonders of
nature. We have not been taught to
observe or study the common things
Of life. The boy or girl gardener has
vital interest in the plants that are
growing. He or she learns how and
when to place the tiny seed in the moist
soil. The days following the seeding
until the tiny green sprout begins to
shove its way through the surfacassoil
are days of anxious expectation, awak
ening interest in the secrets of nature
that would be aroused in no other way.
The followers of the pigs, chickens,
! sheep, calves and colts as club mem
bers will realize as never before the
response of these little lives to the care
of boy or girl.
A boy or girl who makes an animal
his or her pal will very seldom get into
bad company.
Every boy and girl in Garfield county
between the ages Of ten and eighteen,
inclusive, should be a club member.
About five years ago a country
schoolboy in Minnesota Joined a pig
club. His father raised purebred Du-
rocs and the boy bought two little red
pigs Of his father.
Some few years before, his father
had sowed little patch of alfalfa near
the orchard, but it had been used only
as grazing ground for calves so the
boy gathered stray pieces of wire and
boards and built fence around this
alfalfa. At the store in town he was
given couple Of dry goods boxes
which he put in the alfalfa pasture for
his two pigs to sleep in. Mutt and
Jeh, as the two pigs were named, grew
very rapidly on alfalfa, ground oats
and barley and house waste. The boy
also gave them all the apples they
could eat as the apples fell from the
trees.
In the fall Nut and jeff were
weighed. Mutt had gained little more
than JEFF and after all the boys of the
county had figured the cost of the
gain of their pigs, it was found that
Mutt had made the most gain at the
least cost, and so he was awarded first
prize of ten dollars at the county fair
Mutt was then taken to the state fair
where he won second place with prize
of seven dollars and fifty cents and a
purebred boar pig offered as second
prize by Duroc breeder.
Mutt was later sold to a neighbcr
for fifty dollars. So the pig club boy
not only made lot of money with his
pig, but he visited the county and
state fairs, expenses all paid, where he
met lot of other pig club boys and
learned many valuable lessons about
the best way to raise pigs.
Boys and girls who want to becoms
members Of any Of the clubs should
either speak to their teachers Or com
munity club leaders or write to the
county agents office. This Office will