The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-05-18
so CLUB MEMBERS
ENROLL IN TERRELL
DISTRICT AGENT WRITES OF
BENEFITS TO BE DERIVED
FROM THIS WORK.

Terrell is one of about fifteen
counties in which l am doing what l
can to encourage club work. With
the efficient aid of your superintend-
ent, Prof. J. C. Dukes, and home
demonstration agent, Mrs. w. H.
Gurr, | enrolled more than fifty
club members last week. The teach
ers of the various schools visited
were also cooperative.
The club motto is: "To Make the
Best Better"
Who could object to wanting to
have their own children made bet
ter and more successful? This is,
perhaps, as close as the United States
government gets to us. When Uncle
Sam comes to our home and farm
and lovingly tries to teach our chill
dren to take an interest in animals
and plants while they are in the
young and plastic stage, so that they
may learn the germ of success and
the sweetness of farm life, so that
they will live long, happily and well
on the farm near the great loving
heart of nature and natures God,
they will be better and happier for
having done so.
The four HIS, as represented by
club work, strive to teach:
The Head: To think, plan and rea-
son right.
The Heart: To be kind, true and
sympathetic.
The Hand: To be useful, skillful
and efficient.
The Health: To resist disease, to
be happy, and to live long.
Teachers, parents, business men,
friends of children everywhere ad-
wise and encourage the young people
to take advantage of everything that
will help to develop and make good,
useful. successful citizens of them.
If a little fellow tries and fails en-
courage him, brush the dirt off of
him, so to speak, talk kindly and low
ingly to him, and tell him to "try,
try again." and that if he tries long
enough, hard enough and intelligent
ly enough success and growth are
bound to crown his efforts.
While most any club may be join
ed, the pig and corn clubs are the
ones stressed most, and it is not too
late to join.
The editor of the Progressive
Farmer says: "To get any boy OF
girl actively interested in club work
this year believe will be worth as
much as a months schooling, maybe
more. For the great value of club
work is that it not only provides in
formation as a school does, but it
also provides information and social
contact and so develops qualities OF
leadership which might otherwise re-
main forever dormant"
DR.. Grim says: ''No doubt there
are lots of parents who do not real
ize that one of the ways of raising
good boys is to have the boys tt
raise good pigs. Keen observers say
that when young folks care for anc
nurture a dependent creature some
of the best qualities in the young
folks are called forth and exercised
This means that the rising generation
is not so likely to go wrong if it
does constructive work-that is, if
it is encouraged to rear plant, a
colt, a calf, or a pig" The greatest
crop in the world is our boys and
girls. and one of the best ways to
train them Alright is to let them
grow and develop something of their
own.
In the corn club one acre in one
body (160 square rods, say 20x8, or
any other convenient size) is to be
used.
In the pig club one is supposed to
use a registered pig of one of the
breeds: Berkshire, Duroc-
Jersey, Hampshire, Poland-C China, or
spotted Poland-Chi of fall or
spring litter, keeping a record for
At least 100 days.
Any one else wishing to join a
club kindly hand your name to Prof.
Dukes or Mrs. Gurr or write to
J. W. COLE,
District Club Agent, Americas, Ga.