The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-02-09

1nStructS youths III Best MeCHOuS VI
Farming Are Learning to
Do Business Comparatively - Makes /
Farming More Profitable.
GREENFIELD, Mass, Feb. 9.-The
Importance Of the work that is being
carried on by the Farm Bureau in the
department of boys and girls club work
under the direction of Paul L. Alger, !
assistant to J. II. Putnam, agent of the
bureau is not fully realized. Mr.. Alger
succeeded Sumner A. Dole, who left last
September to take a similar position in
Pittstield There are in this county
about 1000 boys and girls under the SUI
pervision Of the County Farm Bureau.
The work takes in garden, corn, potatoes,
onions, poultry, pigs, calf, sheep, can
ming, bread making and embraces almost
every phase of farm and home life. Boys
and girls are learning good farming meth
DDS and also get good training in house
work The effects of this training are
sure to have an important influence in
the agriculture of the future.
i The significance of the relation be-
tween club work and the Farm Bureau
is not realized. Those inside realize
that it is part Of bureau work, but
fail to see its Importance, regarding it as
sort of childs play Mr.. Alger contends
that boys and girls who enter club work
for year or two and then drop it, have
missed the most important feature of
the whole thing He says, Il like to
Think Of club work as the Junior Farm
Bureau All over the United States
farmers and farmers wives are organic.
ing to make farming more profitable
In the past the business Of farming has
been at disadvantage because all other
lines of business upon which the farmer
had to depend had been organized fol
their own benefit. Now the farmers
have organized into associations called
Farm Bureaus, Of which there is on,
in almost every farming county in The
country"
Mr.. Alger says among the things tht
farmers are learning through the bu
reaus is to do business co-operatiyely
and make farming more profitable. IL
fCpHltHuS THAT the GIlD N9th II Il Pal
Ief the Farm Bureau and that club mem
bcrs should be just as much a part Of i
as men and women in it. Club mem
bers have the advantage over adult mem
= bers in that they are learning the bas
methods OF raising livestock and crop
II in their youth, and they should be KEEP
II studying and learning that they ma
II become more successful men and women
i Every boy and girl who likes farmin
II should do club work every year. Ne
II and women do not Join the farm bureau
! and drop out at the end Of the first yea
u They belong all the time and find it t
their advantage. When boys and CIR
: reach the age limit of club work,
through their period Of preparation the
- will become a strong force in the adu
IA Farm Bureau.
D. Year before last there were 1900
= boys and girls engaged in club work
m if they can be held and steered aloT
until they reach maturity, they will exc
- a tremendous influence Mr.. Alger b
ID lieves club work can be carried on
great advantage by girls and boys
i cities who never 90 on a farm. As f
nd himself he had a longing to get on
farm while living in Somerville. and af
IN. er he was big enough he gratifed the
80 sire at first opportunity He was era
w. uated from the Massachusetts Agricu
= tural college in Amherst and is WI
D. equipped for the position he now holds.