The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-05-07
BUSY WITH CLUB WORK
BOYS AND GIRLS TAKING 1T
UP WITH INTEREST
COUNTY LEADER ACTIVE.
Push Baby Beef Contest; Plans
Being Made For Coming
Season

M. H. Coe, county boys and girls
club leader, says now that spring
has opened SO that clubs can get out
many interesting programs are be-
ing given. These In many instances
are taking the form of field trips
around among the members, for the
purpose of viewing the various por
jects under the case OF the club
members. Other clubs are putting
on outdoor meetings. with programs
appropriate to the season. These will
be found Of interest to older people
as well as the young folks, and all
are invited to attend when possible.
Enrollments are still open in the
following projects for the summer:
Corn, poultry, dairy calf, pig, sow
and litter, gardening, bread. How
ever, the time for enrolment IN the
above is getting limited and boys
and girls should get lined up in
their projects without delay. Great
interest Is being taken this year in
the live stock projects and in the
corn work. Good prizes are being of
project promises to be exceedingly
strong this year as well as the pig
project. Boys and girls enrolling in
any project should send their names
to M. H. Coe, at the Farm Bureau Of
fee as soon as possible.
Cooperation With Farm Bureau.
The Farm Bureau is receiving
some very splendid cooperation this
year in ITS various lines of work. In
the boys and girls club work, the
State Bank of Good Thunder is CO.
the corn contest by offering $165 in
prize money for contestants of that
community. Similarly C. C. Bruscke
& Son of Good Thunder are coopera-
ting in the poultry contest by offer
ing $50 to be used as prize money.
In both projects the rules govern
ing them have been outlined by the
County Club Leader of the Farm
Bureau.
At a recent meeting of the direc-
ors of the Blue Earth County Farm
firms was unanimously approved as
it is felt that through this splendid
cooperation the efforts of the Farm
Bureau in interesting the boys and
girls in these worth while activities
have been materially furthered.
Baby Beef Project.
The county club leader has called
on a number of the contestants IN
the baby beef project, and finds that
they are doing exceptionally well
thus far. The calves have been well
work to raise the best possible cal
yes.
There are sixteen, boys and girls
of the county EnrUfted, :, win the
Farm Bureau in this project. Their
names are as follows: Graeme Lang,
Donald Laurisch John More, Milton
Juliar, Harold More. Mapleron; FL
roy Juliar Mankato; Gordon Charter
Vernon Center, Milford and Margaret
der; Lester Felmlee and Roscoe
Felmlee of Madelia; Kelvin Lang,
GAINESVILLE and Raymond Caven and
Giles Grothe Of Amboy
Boys And Girls Short Course.
Blue Earth county had a larger
number of boys and girls In attend
ance at the Minnesota Boys and
Girls Short Course than any year
previous, in fact Blue Earth county
tied with Isanti county for the hon
or of having largest number attend
ing. Each county had IL in attend
ance.
1t is interesting to note that in
1918 only one boy attended this
short course, from Blue Earth coun-
ty. In 1919 fifteen boys and girls
attended, and in 1920, forty one
attended. This indicates the good
results being obtained by the Farm
Bureau in club work and the in
creased interest in the work on the
part of the boys and girls of the
county.
The Farm Bureau has approved
the plan of Offering a larger number
of free trips to this short course as
prizes in club work during the COM
ing year. Boys and girls throughout
the county are urged to do so we'll
with their club work this year that
they will either win one of these
free trips or earn enough money to
pay their way. Parents would do
well to encourage boys and girls in
this effort as the trip is often times
the biggest event of a child's life.
Everyone of the forty-one boys and
girls who attended this year, has
returned with a vision Of greater
things to do and OF better ways OF
doing them.