Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-04-06
AN OCCUPATION FOR BOYS AND
GIRLS
Statement of Originator of Bill that
Gives Federal Aid to Boys and
Girls Club Work.

The following statement of the
Hon. A. f.. Lever, the chairman Of the
committee on agriculture of the House
of Representatives clearly defined to
the House the purpose of the bill
that was passed in May, 1914, known
as the Smith-Lever act, to give fed
eral aid to club work and Farm Bu-
reaus.
eff rural life is to be adjusted and
agriculture defined as profession as
it should be, the country boy and girl
must be made to know in the most
positive way that successful agricul-
ture requires as much brain as does
any other occupation in life"
And Dean Vivian, College Of Agri-
culture, Ohio State University, has
said: "The most important asset Of
the nation is the group Of boys and
girls busy on our American farms.
Someone has wisely said that "No ma
ton advances beyond it's state of ag-
riculture" Certain it is that repub-
lie depends for it's very existence up
on the maintaining of an intelligent
farming group. Since the city is
made over in every four generations
from the country, it follows that the
whole nation should be interested in
the type of boy OR girl that decides to
remain on the American farm.
At the present time, the lure of the
city is so great that the open country
is threatened with the depletion of it's
best stock of farm-experienced youth,
a condition of affairs which is critical
to the republic. l have an abiding
faith in American agriculture. I am
sure that in the end it will triumph,
T wi
Ohio farms to share that faith with
me. I only ask that each farm child
may be shown the opportunities in ag-
riculture so that he may intelligently
decide whether or not he will remain
on the farm.
For these reasons the Boys and
Girls Club work seems to me to be
movement of tremendous import
ance. When to its usefulness in TO-
cusing attention in agriculture is ad-
! ded the fact that it is of the highest
educational value, the Importance of
; he movement is still further enhanced.
No boy or girl can have the exper-
fence Of completed project in one of
these clubs without being better NOR
ally and intellectually because of that
experience. l believe whole-heartedly
in the value of this club work, and /
strongly commend it to the boys and
girls of Ohio, for whom we desire the
: best of everything"
| May we not make the above Yer
| mont's expression of abiding faith
! in her boys and girls? There are
| poultry clubs to learn to raise hens
successfully, calf clubs to help put
j better animals in our barns, pig club
to demonstrate how pork for our table
can best be secured; sewing, cooking
and canning clubs to teach the best
home-making principles our mothers
+! can put forth for us, and other clubs
all along these lines of showing that
true farming is business, an agri-
cultural business requiring the brains
equal to any other profession of mans
pursuits here on earth, and capable OF
returning equal profits and benefits
when properly conducted, similar to
/ other business enterprises in the in.
t dustries of the country.
! Results of Selection
| "There is no healthy cow so poor
but that she will raise productive. off.
spring if mated with the right kline
of sire, and there is no cow so gooc
but that it is possible to improve upor
her greatness by mating her with e
properly chosen bull.'-Dairy Farmer
Associations Use Pure Bred Bulls
! Thirty-one cow testing association
in Wisconsin are 100 rer cent. FREE
from scrub and grade bulls, accord
:, ing to Agricultural Extension Divi
!, lion of the Wisconsin Agriculture
~College. april 80, 1920.