FARM CLUBS
DEVELOPMENT IN CANADA. GREAT VALUE OE MOVEMENT. OTTAWA. Development of Boys' and Girls' Earm Clubs in Canada in the past 25 years are proving of incalculable value, not only in the development of a new generation of skilled farmers but also in greatly improving the agricultural output of the Dominion. These clubs have a total membership of approximately 37,000 boys and girls. At the recent Ottawa exhibition. 177 boys showed high quality calves while at the exhibition at Port Arthur, one boy won the championship for his Holstein Cow and exhibited no less than 11 animals. In the wheat growing districts, these clubs are going in seriously for improving the strains of grain. In the province of Alberta alone, 1,385 boys have built up a substantial supply of excellent seed by planting and caring for plots totalling 5.500 acres of certified and improved seed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1939, Page 3
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146FARM CLUBS Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1939, Page 3
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