. Agriculture and the farming business . Superintendent Sussen and Harold Straiiderg—boy cliam-pion. ments but are usually supplied by interested individuals, or-ganizations, institutions and commercial concerns. Relation to SchoolsThe relation of the boys and girls club work to theschools of the state and county should be similar to thatof the general extension activities to the larger educational THE FARMING BUSINESS 741 institutions. Surely the natural and legitimate extensionwork of the rural and village school lies in the boys andgirls clubs. This agency is designed to translate thetheori
. Agriculture and the farming business . Superintendent Sussen and Harold Straiiderg—boy cliam-pion. ments but are usually supplied by interested individuals, or-ganizations, institutions and commercial concerns. Relation to SchoolsThe relation of the boys and girls club work to theschools of the state and county should be similar to thatof the general extension activities to the larger educational THE FARMING BUSINESS 741 institutions. Surely the natural and legitimate extensionwork of the rural and village school lies in the boys andgirls clubs. This agency is designed to translate thetheories of text-book and class-room work into terms oflife. Opportunity of the school.—It is now generally con-ceded that it is impossible properly to teach the subjects ofagriculture and home economics from text-book and class-. School com club testing seed corn in sawdust germinationboxes. room work alone. Definite efforts therefore need to bemade to help the young people put into immediate practisethe truths, experiments and laboratory results, not at theend of the course, but at the end of each days then every farmer and farmers wife will be inter- 742 AGRICULTURE AND ested in seeing that the local school makes an effort thusto correlate, through the force of club extension work, thebook and class-room education with the life of the homeand the farm. Club RecordsThe table opposite will show something of the resultsthat may be obtained from the boys and girls club workin any state. The greater the number of young peoplewho enroll, stay in the work, and complete all of the workrequired by the leaders of the state, the greater the tangibleresults shown in this table will be. Application of Terms Used in the Boys and Girls Extension WorkThe federal government, together with all the state ex-tensi
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