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This department with the aid of the Oregon Agricultural College has
planned to organize in every school district a boys’ and girls’ industrial
club. We are now publishing a bulletin giving full details of the plan,
and shall take pleasure in sending you a copy as soon as it is off the
press.
Each club is expected to take up one or more of the projects named
below, the choice of the project depending upon the work which is of
greatest interest to the community in which the club is organized. The
following are the Industrial Club projects suggested by this department
for this year:
1. Boys’ Corn Growing Contest.
2. Boys’ Potato Growing Contest.
3. Girls’ Canning Contest.
4. Girls’ Cooking and Baking Contest.
5. Boys’ and Girls’ Poultry Contest.
6. Girls’ Sewing Contest.
7. Boys’ Pig Feeding Contest.
8. Boys’ and Girls’Gardening Contest.
9. Dairy Herd and Management.
10. Manual Arts Contest.
The Agricultural College has promised to assist us further in pre
paring bulletins giving expert advice to the children as to how best to
produce the different tiling . named in these projects, such as bulletins on
potato growing, etc. These will be distributed through the clubs, and
will be of value to parents as well as to the children. The work of organ
izing the clubs will fall largely upon the county school superintend
ents working through the teachers. The University of Oregon, the Ore
gon Agricultural College, and the Oregon Normal School have promised
to send out men in addition to the field workers from this office to help
the superintendents in this work.
The State Fair Board has appropriated to this department $1000 to be
distributed among the boys and girls as prizes at the State Fair. The
Board has also promised us $500 to be used to entertain two boys from
each county for the whole week of the Fair. The boys will be under
the most careful supervision and will make a study of every department
of the Fair, including especially the poultry and the stock judging. In
addition to this we expect to send the ten children who stands highest
in the state contest to the Panama exposition at San Francisco.
Personally I feel that the great success which the children’s industrial
work has had in this state is due to a great extent to the encouragement
which has been given to the movement by the press of Oregon. All of
us will appreciate most sincerely your continued support in helping to