THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1172
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4-H CLUB ITEMS
How many of our members know
that the famous Lindbergh was a
4-H club boy? Well he was. The
first thing that he did was a failure
but he ever had that great character
istic of a true club member, he never
squealed for his failures and he never
boasted of his victories. Boys and
girls, that is what we all need to the
fullest extent the ability to "meet
success and disaster and treat these
two inposters just the same."
Now for an accounting of my ac
tivities when down in Georgia on the
club encampment. We ''had the time
of our lives. There was plenty to eat
and plenty to do, both work and play.
Mr. Davis of Habersiam county, is
coming to our camp next year and
you sure will have the treat of your
lives to have him lead the songs and
yells.-
Every morning and every evening
we went in swimming and had a
game of base ball. Then there was
the feeding.
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Talk about eats. We had them.
Every boy brought two frying chick
ens and a jar or two of jam which
wet made, into a real good punch
each meal. You know' this is a great
drink. You take the contents of two
or three quart jars of jam if they
are all of a different flavor so. much
the better dissolve them in hot water
and then add cold -water and ice and
lemons to make it the strength and
flavor that you want it. . Then drink
your fill. '''.
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Each night we had a bushel basket
emptied in with' the meal and there
was home ground flour and self ris
ing flour and roller mill flour and
sifted and unsifted, meal all mixed
in together, but we were so hungry
and tired that when feeding time
came we asked only one question
and that was "Is there any more?"
We slept in bunks on the floor
made of quilts that the boys brought
and straw which we got from a man
that lived near. Lights were out at
ten o'clock and that is, when the
paddling began for some of the boys
wanted to play tricks on Mr. Davis
and myself and also on some of the
other boys. Mr. Davis had a flash
light and I had one. We would take
our lights and creep up in the dark
to where there was some noise and
then flash our lights and catch the
guilty ones and then he would catch
it. . You see we had a "Board of
Education" along with us. It did not
have any holes in it, but it had plenty
of elbow grease behind it.
Now here is a thing that has oc
curred to me. Would it be possible
for .us to build us a permanent 4-H
camp? The National Forestry au
thorities have said that they arc will
ing to give us the land. The State
Collece will furnish plans, and I won
der if there are not enough Macon
county people living away from here
that would be willing to contribute
the money. Tt would take $5,000.00 to
build one of the right kind, but for
what we would get, that is a very
Jittle sum of money. How about it,
are von willing to write to all your
kin that are living away from here
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Jjid see now nev icei aDour ur i am
Siting to all I know to see how they
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brought some flour, salt, butter, eggs',
bacon, meal, hominy, rice, etc. Just
what he thought he could eat during
the whole time. Each article of a
kind was . put all together and then
the cook was left- to go- to it. And
he went.
There were one or too funny things
that just went to make the whole
thing more fun.' For instance, some
of the meal was emptied in, with
the flour and some of the- sugar was
4-H GIRL MAKES TREE
COLLECTION
Collecting and mounting specimens
of 84 different kinds of trees, Miss
Mateline Lee, aged 18, of Henderson,
Tex., has been awarded the highest
record in the tree identification pro
ject of the 4-H club members of
Rusk county, Tex." Miss Lee's col
lection has been sent, to the Wash
ington headquarters of the Forest
Service, United States department of
agriculture, where ft received the com
mendation of forest officers.
Nearly all the specimens were of
trees native to Rusk county. Each
mounting includes the leaf, fruit, and
seed of the tree, specimens of its
bark,, and cross sections and long
itudinal sections of the wood.
Tree identification is one of four
lines of forestry activity carried on by
Texas 4-H duty members in their
first year's forestry work. The other
projects are the management of an
acre of timber, seed collecting, and
the writing of a forestry essay. The
work in Rusk county is supervised
by B. F. Gray, local county agent,
under the direction of the state ex
tension forester, C. B. Webster.
full of; fried chicken. Everv oneHcel. WKe would rent the camp to
other clubs when we were not using
it and in that way would pay up
keep.
I will be around to your school in
September to see you all , and I have
a lot of plans and things to tell
you about. When you get the notice
of the day I will be at' your school,
ask your father and mother- to come
out.and see what we are doing.
LYLES: HARRIS,
' County Club Leader.
HOW A COLORADO COUNTY
ORGANIZED
Boulder county, Colorado, has
worked out an organization which is
accomplishing a great deal for club
work in. that county by developing
leaders 'among the-boys and girls and
by relieving the. county agents from
much routine- work,
There are 343 members in that
county which was divided into five
districts. Each club has its officers
and each district has its officers.
The district officers arc members of
the county council from whom the
county officers arc elected. Each
club holds meetings once or twice
each month, each district meets once
a month and the entire county mem
bership gets together twice a year.
Both county and district organizations
have their own. program, refreshment,
camp and entertainment committees
and they are functioning well. . They
were active in planning their club
camp held late in July.
One of the outstanding results of
committee work in the county has
been the change in awarding com
munity exhibit prizes. Heretofore
educational exhibits have been set up
by different communities and the
county fair board has awarded prizes.
Considerable dissatisfaction has result
ed from this method in the past so
the 4-H club workers have persuaded
the fair board to offer the prizes for
educational exhibits prepared by club
members in districts.. Prize money
received will be pooled in the county
club fund and used to purchase pins
for those members who complete their
club work, to buy permanent equip
ment for the club camp, and to furn
ish other incidentals for c ity club
enterprises.
Next year the club members plan
to take charge of the enrollment
through district committees with the
extension agents reserving the right
to decide on the type of work the
club will carry . This last restriction
is made so that the club work can be
tied up with the different community
projects.
MINNESOTA CLUB SELECTS
FLOWER
The cosmos has been selected by
the 4-H clubs of Hennepin county,
Minn., as their club flower. The
county : extension service purchased
enough fine cosmos seed to , provide
every club in that county with a pack
age of this., seed. Each club mem
ber .has "planted this seed in a fairly
public place- near - his -home -and-it-is
to serve as a sort - -of a sku -board
that a wide-awake 4-H club member
lives in that home.
tivitics of their organization by means
of a weekly broadcast, "The 4-H Club
Crier," prepared by the Radio Service
in conjunction with the extension ser
vice. The 4-H Clubs, with a membership
of more than 620,0(X) farm boys and
girls, are agencies for the development
of skill and character and enthusiasm
for farm life among farm youngsters.
The new radio program for club mem
bers is the first effort to give each
individual in the organization a weekly
glimpse into the whole realm of club
work.
The national program will suppli
ment the State 4-H radio programs, -carried
-onJ by a number of land
grant colleges. It will introduce a
new 'radio personality who will tell
farm boys and girls of the entire
country the story each week of the
best achievements by club members,
local clubs or groups of local clubs,
announce important regional or nat
inoal events, and explain how to con
duct club projects.
Separate "4-H Club Crier" pro
grams are being developed for the
Eastern, Central, Southern, and West
ern groups of states. The schedule
of cooperating radio stations will be
announced early in September. Sixty
one, stations in 38 states have re
quested the program.
4-H CLUB MEMBERS TO HAVE
WEEKLY RADIO PROGRAM
A large' scale- demonstration of
radio's effectiveness in influencing
rural thought and action will be car
ried on for a period of 30 weeks,
broadcasting stations and the Radio
and extension services of the United
States Department of Agriculture, the
department announced today.
The radio stations cooperating with
the department arc going to give the
rank and file of 4-H Club boys and
girls a national outlook on the act-
Twenty counties with a, total area of
15.000 square miles and. a cattle popu
lation estimated as 450,000 have been
added to the list of "modified accred
ited areas" in the national campaign"
for the eradication of bovine tuber
culosis, it is -announced by the United
States department of agriculture.
These counties are scattered over 11
states. A "modified accredited area"
is one in which tuberculosis has been
found to . affect not more than one
half of 1 per cent of the cattle as
determined by official testing, and in
which all animals reacting to the
tuberculin test have been removed
from the herds. The establishment
and official recognition of modified
accredited areas has been in progress
five years, and the list has grown
until there arc now 527 counties, parts
of 2 counties, and 21 towns so classified.
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"IN UNITY THERE -IS -STRENGTH"
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The National Dairy Show and Tri-State Fair will be held at
Memphis, Tennessee, October 13-20. Make arrangements
now to attend this show. It will be well worth your time and
small expense attached to the trip
Dairy jricnic in the grove back of the creamery on August
30th. Several good talks are scheduled. Gome and bring
your basket of lunch. This will be a great day f or Macon
county. 1
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Trade with your own store The Farmers Federation, and
jjetyour regulaYividendrYou can buy as cheaply here as
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" E. S. HUNNIGUTT, Manager.
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