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meetings of experimental clubs outside of school hours. While it doesn’t seem like a radical idea today. Graham expected to meet with parental resistance. He held his first meetings in the basement of the county buildings on Saturday morning; evidently his idea was to provide a child-care service while parents were in town shopping.
But Graham provided much more than child care. He began with projects that the students could easily complete.
He had the youngsters test the soil on their farms with litmus paper and gather the best seed corn from the previous harvest for future planting in test plots. He introduced them to knot tying and rope splicing and to using a microscope.
The idea of the agricultural club caught on - farm youngsters desperately needed some technical instruction to keep up with the changing farm outlook. By the end of 1904, thirteen clubs in as many townships surrounding Graham’s had over 3,000 members. Some of the clubs activities were incorporated into the school
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