The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-01-31

aJlOn-WlQOeLS IN SIdLe contest LOT
Prizes Awarded by the State Bank
ing Association.
BURLINGTON, Jan. 81 Boys and
girls Of Vermont are accomplishing won
derful things these days Z. L. Ingalls,,
state leader Of boys and girls club work
in Vermont, has Just completed his rec
ords prepared from the reports of club
workers for the year 1919 The total
enrolment of boys and girls in the club
work for 1919 was more than 10000 mem
bers. The total value of products from
these boys and girls was $50, 629.32, while
the net profit from these products
amounted.to $l6,40S72
There were LOG standard boys and
girls clubs in operation in the state last
year, Of which 70, or better than IS per
cent, came through the season and fin
ished the program laid out for these
clubs. This program for standard club
includes a membership of at least five
working on the same project; a club
leader in charge during the year; organ
ization with officers and definite duties {;
a definite program of work; at least six
regular club meetings during the year
an annual local exhibit; demonstration
team which shall give at least one public
demonstration; at least 90 per cent Of
the members must complete their pro-
lects and file a final report with the state
club leader; the choosing Of a Judging
team for competition between members
an achievement day; and club holding
membership in farm bureau or other
country club
The 10000 boys and girls who have
taken part in the work during 1919 have
been engaged in y different projects en-
phasized by the clubs, as follows: Gar
den projects, 4,l45; canning, SOP; pigs,
454; poultry, 807; potatoes, 5l5; corn,
lS3; calves, I03; sheep, 1888; cooking, 604;
sewing, 923; handicrafts, 293; maple
sugar, 200
There are two kinds OF members en-
rolled in the club work, those who belong
to some local clubs and carry on the work
in connection with that club, and those
4 who are not local club members, but who
are identified with the state club as gen
eral members, or members at large. Mr.
/ ingalls, states that children who belong
1 to local clubs do the best work as a rule
although there are individual cases where
the work Is superior because the boy OF
! girl is naturally adapted to the kind OF
work and eNcels in it.
OF the l06 standard clubs which are
now in operation in the state. IS are
garden clubs ; nine canning clubs; siN
pig clubs; nine poultry clubs; one potato
club; four cooking clubs; u sewing clubs
and one handicraft club Among the
stronger clubs in the state are: The
Wide-Awake Handicrafts club at st
Johnsbury; the Wide Awake Garden clul
at Bloomington; the nine local clubs il
Plttstord, which are affiliated into the
Plttstord Junior Farm Bureau; the West
Rutland Handy Gamers; Uncle Sans
Cookers and Gamers of White River
junction; Bennington county clubs, in.
Guiding Pownal, Bennington. Dorset
. Stamford and South Shaftsbu the
Boys and Girls Home Project club at
East Corinth; the Richmond Sewing clut
and the Marlboro Branch club at South
Newfane.
Club work in the state has been greatly
stimulated by two sorts of contests which
have been operated among the club mem.
bers. There have been county contests
during the last year, in which l4O win
; ners in various branches of the work will
be announced in the near future. Their
there is the statewide contest, in which
prizes have been offered during the last
four years by the Vermont State Bank
ers' association.
This contest has created great dea
Of interest among the boys and girls OF
. the state, and the three prizes in each OF
the Il projects (lst prize, s.; I'd prize
SD; and Sd prize, 81 have been striver
. after by a large number of workers dur
ing the last year. The results of thes,
contests, which have been CAREFUL,
worked out and tabulated in the office Of
! Mr.. Ingalls, at Morrill, hall, are given be
low:
: Garden project: State champion anc
first prize, Hazel Crawford of Pownal, |.
years old, who made a net profit of S33 2