Title: Biennial report of the Department of Agriculture
Identifier: biennialreportof1911tenn (find matches)
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Tennessee. Dept. of Agriculture
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: Nashville, Tenn. : The Dept.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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174 TENNESSEE AGRICULTURE 1912, and the lists continue to come. During the past few years sev- eral boys in these clubs have produced more than 200 bushels of corn per acre and hundreds have gone above the lOO-bushel mark. These yields have been so large and have been made at such low cost per bushel that they have attracted almost world-wide attention. Hun- dreds of, girls, too, are beginning to make profits on small gardens at the rate of from $500 to $1,000 per acre, besides making records on quality and variety of garden products and their preparation and preservation for food. In these circumstances it will not be amiss to consider what the purposes of these clubs are. The objects of the Boys' and Girls' Demonstration Work are as follows: 1. To make good demonstrations in farming in thousands of communities. 2. To teach the principles of agriculture and horticulture in a definite and practical m<anner. 3. To teach the love of plant life and the value of the soil. 4. To dignify labor and make it intelligent and efifective.
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Shelby County Exhibit at State Fair. 5. To give purpose and direction to youthful lives at the oppor- tune time. 6. To teach earning, owning and accounting.

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