Photostory #315: Canada's Youth Pledge Head, Heart, Hands, Health: World-Wide Agricultural Link

Photographers
Bob Brooks
Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
July 10, 1962
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Main Text
As summer's hot sun edges down towards the autumnal equinox, farmers across Canada go full stride into their busiest time of the year. Thanks to a world-wide organization with a Canadian membership of 71,000 rural youngsters, many of the nation's farmers will get skilled help from their sons and daughters. Canada is one of 60 countries which have 4-H clubs -- an international network that inspires millions of boys and girls in farming areas to increase their technical know-how and business knowledge. 4-H also encourages their interest in world affairs, clear-thinking citizenship and moral standards for tomorrow's changing world. From the Philippines to Finland, Argentina to India, Korea to Jamaica, 4-H or similar-type clubs are a common link between farming families of different creeds, colours, nationalities. In Prince Edward Island -- Canada's 2,000-square-mile kitchen garden in the Gulf of St. Lawrence -- young Judy Clark is busy helping run her family's farm. One of the Island's 2,300 members of 4-H, Judy has learned the correct way to plough a field, tend a calf, maintain farm equipment, cope with financial aspects of farming. Judy, through 4-H, has an important place in Canada's future, a valuable bond with her country cousins across the seas.