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CLUB ACTIVITIES
Members Make Money by Their Projects
AS an Indication of tho excellent monnor In which tho Wagga boys firo carrying out their work, tho following tablo Is apponded. Tho young growers wcro highly complimented by tho Judgo (Mr. Dunlop, Department of Agriculture). Thwo la distinct evidonco that moro dlstriots will now enter tho wheat-growing competitions next year, ?' iu' pw'y , lesson* learnt will stand i?Jh? boys in adult life. As Disraeli tiuoted, 'On tho youth of our country depends a nation's posterity.' l'uumr)'
Mnngopluh.— Jack Clark lino a pen of Whlto LcBliorn fowls of high breeding, Mr, J, Webb reports thnt tlio pullets nro from prlzp winners, nnd tho cockerel Is tt prlno winner too. Tho eggs from this pen nro In great demand for setting, so Jnck linn mndo it few shllllnns profit on his project, nlthough ho nold llio cess to his less fortunnto olub mntes at tho small chnrge of hi u setting,
Jnck McDonald nns n Tnmworth Bcrkshlro sow which has a litter of six, Tlicso were sired by a pure-bred Tam worth boar that his father bought for him. It Is now Jack's Intention to In vest the, money from tho salo of his litter to obtain puro bred sows, The Mangoplah vcgctablo growers were hard lilt by tho late frosts, but thoy aro buck ing In and have rcsown their cucumbers, etc, Tiimbnrumbo.— This new olub has now thirty-two members, Two boys— Jack Kohn nnd Hugh McLelland— hnvo out stnndhig vegetable gardens, and they mo only eleven yenrs of age, Eight girls nio doing llowcrs; and the rest of tho members nre doing poultry, cnlvcs am ilu». Mr, Thornloy, tho hon, sec, of Ihc lncal advisory committee. Is doing excellent work, and hns already a. dona- tion Hat of CO for prl'cs next March OiililmU Wheat Competition. The field wheat competition conducts jy the tinlor farmers' club at Qulrlndl this season proved a grcnt success. Each competitor lintl to havo a-ncres of wheat Tho results wore rpunrdccl as highly nntls tactory by tho Judgo (Mr. M. H, Hey nolds), who mndo tho following nwnrds:— Evan and lion Pollock, Hard Federation (13B points), 1; CHIT, aedden, Hard Federation (137 points;, 2: H, Wilson Wnratnh, and aeorge Wllllnms, Aussie (121 points eucll), 3, Tho second lii'lze winner, 011(1, Ocddes, who Is only four teen yoars of age, wns unaided In tho work of cultivation nnd sowing.