In thinking over plans for strengthening our national organization and promoting club work, I think that it would be a good plan if all of us boys and girls would try to get as many new members to join club work as we can. I think, too, all the boys and girls should subscribe to the Farm Boys' and Girls' Leader so that they will be able to keep track of what each is doing. I think we ought to collect and distribute publicity regarding achievements and the results of our club work, so that we can get other boys and girls interested in club work and incidentally show the grown people that our club work brings results.

Last year there were representatives from twenty-six states at the International Livestock Show. Let us try and have all states in the Union represented at the International this year. If you ever get the chance to go to the International I know that you will say that your trip has been of inestimable value to you. You can ask any of the boys or girls who went to the International last year and they will tell you the same thing. I made my second trip last year.

In 1920 I thought I had a very good time, but I had a still better time last year. It would be an inspiration to anyone to see the fine cattle, horses, sheep and hogs at this great show. It was also very interesting to watch the judges do the judging. There was a very good grain exhibit in the grain hall. They had a mammoth ear of corn which was made of sixty bushels of corn and stood thirty feet high. It was called the `Farmer's Dream' and I guess it was, too.

We also went thru the packing houses, the Board of Trade, McCormick Harvester factory, the Art Building and many other places of interest. I hope the rest of you boys and girls will get a chance to go to the International this year. I know that if you do your club work well it helps `make the best better.' I started club work in the fall of 1917 feeding a baby beef. I did not do very well the first year as I did not get placed at all at any of the fairs. But I decided to get a better calf the next year and feed again. This time I came out on top as I got first in my class at the Iowa State Fair and Reserve Champion. In 1920 I fed two baby beeves and raised a litter of purebred Poland China pigs. I won first at the Iowa State Fair with my Shorthorn calf and third with my Angus calf. I also showed the first prize litter of pigs at our county fair. Both in the pig club and open classes.

Club work has taught me the habit of perseverance, without which we cannot accomplish anything. It also has taught me the value of good feeds and feeding. It has taught me how to pick out a good baby beef and how to select good pigs. It has taught me my vocation in life, and I have decided to go to college at Ames and then back to the farm. Club work helps to make boys and girls interested in farming and makes us want to stay on the farm.

I am no superhuman in boy form, just because I was elected Vice-President of this National Organization of Boys and Girls. I have never accomplished anything exceedingly great in this work, but I have done something that I consider is very important and absolutely necessary in every day life. I will leave this to the reader to grasp from my story of my experiences.

I have never been State Champion, although that was my ambition last year and is now. I started in club work in 1918 when I secured a red Shorthorn heifer. Remember, this was my start and I won tenth place at my county fair. The next year I entered the pig club, secured two big boned type Poland China boars. I was ninth place that year. In 1920 I entered both calf and pig clubs with a little more experience and club spirit. I won fifth in calf club and first in pig club, also being third choice for state pig club champion. I entered again, the pig and calf club this year, 1921, and with my club spirit running a little higher than in preceding years I showed my pig at the state fair, where he won second place for me and a month later when I showed at the county fair I won second in pig club and second and fifth in calf club. I also won first in judging beef cattle at the state fair.

These have been my club achievements, and with them some honor, as I call it. When I started club work I was a little cog in this great machine, hardly noticeable in our community, but with what little mechanical advantage I had I helped to make things turn over and helped round things into shape until in 1920 I was elected president of our club and in 1921 was reelected. Now we have a greater honor, that of Vice-President of this organization.

I tell these things not to boast, but to show others what they can do if they stick to club work with the great club spirit which you cannot help get if you start in the right manner. And what I want to bring out in this little sketch of my experience is to show that you can work from a little standing in your community to a reasonable place in national work.

What club work has done for me cannot be told in this column but what it has done for me can be done to everyone two-fold by the National Organization, that is, it will bring all boys and girls from different parts of the United States into closer contact and the ideas of one state which include the boys and girls will be transferred to other states. It will help to get more business men and organizations interested in club work which will probably mean more and better trips to the International.

I want to take this opportunity, to thank the boys and girls of the United States engaged in club work for the honor they gave me by electing me Vice-President of this great organization. Good luck to all! Yours to `make the best better, Roscoe Kuhn, Shelby, Ohio.

I have been in organized club work the summers of 1919, 1920 and 1921. During this time I have taken the baking club project twice, sewing twice, home keeping twice, canning twice, butter and cheese once, health once, calf and poultry once. In 1921 I was local leader of a sewing club, finishing my club one hundred percent and meeting every requirement of the Indiana Standard Club. I have, in club work, not only learned to make the products and keep strong, raise calves and chickens, but have also learned to judge each, and to demonstrate their making. I have won two first state prizes and two thirds, besides numerous county and local prizes. I have won in these prizes, two trips to the State Boys' and Girls' Club Round-up at Purdue, a trip to Indianapolis, Chicago, Madison, Wis.; Racine, Kenosha and Milwaukee, given as state prizes in 1920, one trip to the International Livestock Show, besides $112 in money.

Club work has been educational to me, having taught me to talk in public, and seeing many places of interest. It has helped me to meet hundreds of people, aided me financially, and I have greatly enjoyed it. It is developing the boys and girls into more valuable, capable men and women.

I feel that our national organization is a great and valuable undertaking. It can help our national senior club officers in carrying out the program they have planned, can promote club work alone, and help bring about a great national club round-up in connection with the livestock show, in future years. Adelle Davis, Lizton, Ind.