Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1916 — FARM CARDEN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FARM CARDEN

AIM OF AGRICULTURAL CLUBS The principle object! to be attained through the promotion of boys’ agricultural clubs in the south as defined by those in charge of this work, are: 1. To encourage and train boys along the lines of the activities of country Itfe. —— 2. To put into practice the facts of scientific agriculture obtained from books, bulletins, etc. " 8. To bring the school life of the boy into closer relationship to his home life. 4. To assist in the development of the spirit of cooperation in the family and in the community. 5. To dignify and magnify the vocation of the farmer by demonstrating the returns which may be secured from farming when it is properly conducted. 6. To enlarge the vision of the boy and to give him definite purposes at an important period in his life. ■ 7. To furnish to the aggressive, pro gressive rural school teacher an opportunity to vitalize the work of the school by correlating the teaching of agriculture with actual practice. The aim of the boys r ~clubwofk’ _ lir the same as that among men—viz, to secure the adoption of better methods of farming and greater yields at less cost. Many of the boys in the clubs who begin to study agriculture ia this way will continue the study in the agricultural colleges; others will continue such eforts on their farms, and all of them will make more useful and more efficient citizens. From the pleasant and profitable experience of owning and managing, their small plats they will .develop into Independent, in telligent farmers.