Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-02-04
GET MUCH BENEFIT
Three Hundred Young Farmers
Take Two Weeks Course
at State School
LEARNING TO JUDGE CORN
Many as Result Will Decide to Attend
the College of AgricuI-
ture.

Inc TROUT corn Judging contests
held by the county farmers institutes
in several parts of the state. are large
ly responsible for the presence of 800
young men at the corn growers and
stockmen's convention in session the
last two weeks at the college of agri-
culture. Urbana Vernon Tyler of Hi
nois City was among those attending
the meeting.
The entire expenses, railroad fare
and board for two weeks. of about
seventy of these young men are paid
by premiums won in the local judging
contests and most of the others were
induced TO attend by taking part
in the contests named, by observing
their work or by hearing about il.
Peculiar Educatiye Value.
The peculiar value in these contests
is that the young man, the person of
all others most necessary and most
valuable to reach. gets a high grade
of agricultural education at every step.
He is brought actively into the county
institute-this one who must make the
illSlil tt al lt" Yeas ItICt. Ilt SttS
instruction from an expert judge, dis
GUESSING with him the practical points
of the ear and the yield of corn. This
boy handles and judges corn himself
| for two or three days and passes an
examination in corn Judging. He is
also required TO attend the day ses-
sions of the institute when not in the
corn class At the Scott county insti-
| tute, soil circular was studied and
examined upon instead of corn. Some
of the largest classes have numbered
| Is to "a. Those who do not win pre-
mimums have had valuable instruction
there are no losers among the con-
testants: every step in the work is a
step in an agricultural education.
Doing Fine Work at the College.
Those who go from these contests
to the two weeks corn convention at
the college of agriculture. have this
part of education extended and inten-
sified. They get the peculiar mental
awakening and ambition 10 learn that
comes from association with so many
of their fellows who are studying the
same things. and especially from the
talks of the skillful specialists who de.
vote a lifetime 10 one line of study and
from the discussions of the practical
men who have won large success on
the farm and in school work
Gives New Point of View.
1t is not so much the facts gained
in the two weeks as the opening door
that gives the young man glimpse OF
the great body of knowledge to Ot
learned in the mastery of his business
II is the new connection with the
sources of information. the college
the experiment station. agricultural
organizations. agricultural bulletin,
and circulars. books and papers. 1t il
the personal touch with the live teach
ers who have such knowledge to give
1t is the new attitude to learn and tC
master his work
, Many of these young men will be 81
attracted that they will take a regula
or special course at the college of agri
culture. but all will receive lastin!
benefit.
Women study Household Science.
: There were also 80 women from tn
:, different counties taking a two weeks
, course in household science at the co
lege of agriculture. and about twenty
five of them came on scholarship