Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1926, Page 73

MAGAZINE SECTION e i, Part 5—8 Pages WASHINGTON, . (.. SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY 24, -Washington Is Hub of World's Greatest “Trainins School” BY GEORGE H. DACY. ’“":‘,)lf'";.‘:‘.l“‘:"‘:;‘:vfll"v:} Teaching 510.000 Boys and Girls How to Farm, Keep House and Make Rural Homes Comfortable Is an Anrnual Task of omn ”“(1\1:‘: the Department of Agriculture—Greatest Juvenile Organization in History Spreads Scientific Education by Deeds—Pro- et R | duce Many Million Dollars’ Worth of Foodstuffs Annually—Success of the Juniors Converts “Dad ™ and “Ma ™ to Modern ers here '."‘5“‘";“"”‘“”“ SN || Methods—How the Work Has Maintained Constant Growth. of the Nation Theso junior farmers. trained in the Fclence of agriculture and hon 1e by clubwork experts and le he representatives of the Go “who werk far B; have established Champion I n «mpion the wvenile Covn grower Selecting See whicl - | train the mind 5 or girl to think, plan and reason train the hands to be skillfu a particiy of the whole Ancial rajuver f hborhood which was ) nated in and svmy K harmoniously e mon goa r leaflets head. hands under cessful cted regions ¢ it was not | ys Lever act of | n Willin ngress. elg ater, that pro e thus ins were " for organized ex. | StHIVINE to pay a small part of their immeasurable t to Uncle | contribution to | the extension and expansion of the | remarkable “4-H" program. Other | former club members are in college many of them paying the expenses of | their higher 2 with money |arned in nsfon work agricu t of that m widened the sphere of the hovs and girls' clnbwork and served ac a stapping st siepochal aut cecs in fuvenile vinning hens and during ears they used their her instea fatherly assistance in i (ing their expenses ' farm enter [ prises which they hav oped from | J(lfliOY Home makers Renew -1the start they ol the Gou 2 s el ity and Repair Furniture/. voted much space | Propris methods, measures and the ments of rural|guccess of each one. Gray-haired [ TN the dawn davs of our natior remodeled or selec weording to | ecarefull orded cost of less than|other dec tor All that saved sing and feeding farm animals n Atching col 1 s heen t ) there we ctivel the United States. M year under sand bavs and 6,300 < i i They added i | & - i live stock feed in their grandfathers looked on in amazement |4 | T e i growers in « o t ; 4 ; e ing t pilots, our|and compared the results of thelr | ! 8 nd (ol ! ¥ swine, sheep ol and in many ¢ oneering-—labor | throughout the cc he science | nfid i faith of | x rposes Many juvenile j i, similar p . g boll weevi s d to determine ! confide E ith of Mar mple, | per Ly "’1“‘;"”'1““' . 8 (dult producers i the stability | mtinue their . et et . e, HCOMONIPTOCUCHON of cotton eropping e, to vear and build ) t of | these club vouths ave reforming the |idea was to expedite ¢ S gortar L | 1s ‘-Hrn’lnyl’lhr‘:ih L of [ farming practices of centuries, and id to raise a surpl stoc )i‘ the for potential X desirable i net cash re sly have never accumulate 1 g boys of perpetuity | rteness and healthfulness today, a score of vears aft ind the ever- * K ok the 1 corn-club contest was held ity interest of the methods ire now by section. Mr.| The boys' interest in rafsing club skilled | p, i 3 mimals often leads to the fo st vear the s g 1 records, in s = various : of a partnership between him and his the other | harvested 56 : f 4 s-vear perfod, 17 L{corn diseases and know how to com - % srowers | father. The palr embark in the pure. parable in- | well rtables | <, ‘whose average W hat the pir 1l pests which prev on | Lav, ) > © fathers and | bred live stock business. Some of these |, counties |in he ns. : P 15 vears. produced ind the corn plant. . which ‘they Ihrothers have failed. The cotton club | boys, when they become old enough nghont the country employ &pe- | cared for s = it crops.of 200 Bushs have learned from their club leaders |y, last produced 110 | to vote, own from $£10.000 to $20,000 | % 0 il eerits whoidevote el dite | st 1) Bl imlGuali ux snore \Wiken oual cont thit land county ents in the course of of cotton. Seventeen [ Worth of live stock or more. and are |.nq sy evelnsively to the training and di- ity pouitry the average corn yield of Illinois and |their monthly club meetings and field | thousand two hundred hoys and givls | Welt-headed along the highway to | ynit yection of the hove' and girle' elubs| The canning campaign of those in-|Iowa is less than 35 hushels demonstrations ralsed cotton last yeay according to |Outstanding agricultural attainment. | pLiq 3 In those recpective counties. In other |terested in food preservation is rep championship caliber of these j Tallapoosa and Coosa Counties, Al | the most approved methods and fune Perhaps the small investment can earn “pin money SiEE G o i counties the cluh work is the of-|resented hy 00.000 quarts of fruits.|ven s s p about decided to ahandon cotten | tioned as efficient evangelists in | volved has somethinz to i ke e ; . oot ’