A certain city boy who is spending his vacation with country cousins is astonished to find that these country boys and girls are looking forward with eagerness to the opening of school in the fall. He thinks it is because they all belong to corn, pig and calf clubs, bread-making, poultry and canning clubs, and want to make reports to the teacher about all the things they have raised and then get ready to show some of the things at the county fair and win prizes. Here is the conclusion of a letter which the city boy wrote to his mother the other day:
“I don’t want to go back to that old city school nest year. I think it would be lots more fun to go to school here in the country where you have lots of time in the summer to raise things and belong to boys’ and girls’ clubs. I belong to a Turkey Club, just Aunt Mary and I, and I just got to stay out here and tend to the turkeys. Aunt Mary gave me four young turkeys and she kept four and we are running a race to see which can raise the finest before Christmas.”
From the editorial page of The Wilson Times, July 31, 1923. These girls' and boys' clubs, originally organized through public schools, are the forerunners of Cooperative Extension Service 4-H Clubs in North Carolina.
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