The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-12-22
FARM BUREAU NOTES

Fred Tholen and found him busy fix
ing wagon wheels. He had taken an
ordinary sized wagon wheel which
was no good and was cutting down
the size and making a low-wheeled
wagon. On most farms these wheels
would have been thrown away and
about $500 or more paid for new
running gears. When this repairing
IS done it will not have cost Mr..
Tholen more than $25 and he has a
wagon that will last for years.
The following story is told by Mr..
Tholen regarding a wagon that he
bought about twenty years ago. He
states, 81 paid six dollars for wagon
twenty years ago and had the wheels
cut down and am still using this for
a feed wagon now. The wagon cost
me about twenty dollars to have the
wheels cut down. 1t had run about
thirty years before I bought it. 1t
certainly pays to take care of the
wagons"
Mr.. Tholen not only fixes his
wagons but he sharpens his own plow
shares and does other general repair
work. This is great saving for him
besides when spring comes he has all
his machinery in repair and ready to
use. He does not need to spend days
fixing when he should be working.
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As 1 drove into the yard of Sam
Croft the other day, he was just COM
plotting the job of mending a broken
chain. He had done an excellent job
and saved himself considerable if he
had of had to take it to town.
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Several others in this county are
busy these days repairing machinery
and getting ready for spring work. 1t
will pay you to have a work shop on
your farm with a good set of black
smith tools.
Miss Alene Him, Assistant State !
Club Leader, was in the county last
week, aiding in the organization of
boys and girls clubs for 1922.
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Miss Him, Louis Christensen, and I
the County Agent visited five schools /
and organized five sewing clubs with |
the girls, and four sorghum clubs with I
the boys, and two pig clubs. The
total enrolment is around one hun
dred, and We hope to increase this
number to two or three hundred boys
and girls.
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Have you ever thought that one of
the best ways of keeping your boy on
the farm is to give him something
that viii interest him? Nothing is
better than club work. 1t teaches the
boy or girl how to do things them
selves.
The story can best be told by one
of the mothers of this county in talk
ing about the first meeting of her girl
with a baking club. She says "You |
. know 1 have been trying to get my
girl interested in cooking but could |
MT and after she met with the club
she has been wanting to bake all the
time. / never could interest her in /
sewing but after meeting with the
sewing club she wants to sew. 1 /
think the club work ought to con
tinue. 1t has done lot for my girl
even though we have had but two
meetings"
One boy writes in his sorghum re
port that after the first year he
bought a pig with the money that he
won in prizes with his sorghum. Now
he has several pigs and is very enthus-
iastic about the raising of pigs as we'll
as sorghums.
Another boy writes that he wants
to join a calf club. Another, pig
club, so you see that this year the
work IN clubs is broadening out to
take in other lines of work. Can you
imagine of anything better for the
boys and girls than work that will
train them for lie on the farm? The
schools are only giving a general
course in Agriculture so the club
work offers something definite. Be-
sure your boy joins a club.
Then there will be stOckjudging
work for those boys that wish to take
it, and if all goes well, the first con-
test will be held at the Roundup in
the spring and plans now are for
several teams from this county.
We are in need of local people in
the communities that viii assist in
this work by meeting once a month
and instructing them in the line of
work of which they are interested. If