The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-03-26
Corn Growers Contests.

general request from those interested, and
particularly to the call from Monterey for
more information and rules governing the
proposed corn growers contest, and
moved by desire to assist In every way
possible in stimulating The boys and
directing their activities along useful lines,
herewith present to the teachers, parents
and boys of the county brief outline of a
plan of organization and rules governing
same, fuller details of which will be given
as we move along in the work.
I. ANY boy under the age of twenty
one years is eligible to membership.
2. He must send in his request to
enter the contest by April 25th, giving
name, age, name of school and postoffice
address.
3. he may select any spot of ground
In Rankin county for cultivation, and may
cultivate any area he sees fit, provided it
not less than one-half acre.
q. The contestant must Go all the
work of planting, cultivating and fertil-
izing.
5. When matured the contestant may
select any ten ears from the patch to con-
testlfor one of the prizes.
8. He may exhibit the stalk with the
greatest number of pounds of dry corn on
1t for another prize. (The ears must be
intact on stalk.)
7. Harvesting. The greatest yield
per acre secures third prize. (The corn
must be gathered by disinterested party
who shall give his written certificate of
the total yield of the patch, also state
ment of the number of square yards in
the patch.)
8. Each contestant must exhibit with
his lot of corn brief written outline Civ
Ing information on the following points:
D. Kind of soil on which seed was
planted.
(2) Kind of seed planted.
CD. Location; (a) field or garden; CD
level, slope, bottom, etc.
(4. Kind of crop raised on land last
year.
60. How ground was prepared for
seed.
60. Planting; date of planting, depth,
distance apart of rows, of hills, number
and length of rows.
I'd. Cultivation-Tools used, dates of
cultivation and kinds of cultivation given
each time with average height of stalks at
each cultivation.
(8) Fertilization-Kind and quantity
of fertilizers used and how and when put
out.
For all these points the contestant
should keep note book in which to write
down such facts at the time they happen.
Due notice will be given of the time and
place where exhibits will be made next
fall. A list of prizes will probably be
arranged by the board of supervisors at
its next meeting. want to call upon
parents to furnish the boys with small
plat of ground, seed. etc, and give to
them your interest and encouragement.
The purposes of this "Corn Growers
Club are too numerous to mention here,
but will briefly mention some of the
most important, as follows:
1. To make farm life more attractive
and farming more profitable.
2. To make the study of agriculture
in the public schools more practical and
3. To make the rich rural environ
ment of the child minister to its education.
4. To encourage soil study, soil i'm
provement, better cultivation, seed selec-
ton, etc.
5. To enforce the idea that farmers
need as thorough mental training as pro-
fessional men.
What has been said in the above lines
is directed to teachers, men and boys.
now appeal to mothers by enumerating
three things from President RooseveIt's
speech to the women at the international
on "The Welfare of the Child"
at Washington, D. c., March 10, 1908:
"They (women) can help CD toward
making education more practical; (2) to
better play grounds in schools, and 90,
to stop child labor in mills" In the first
place Iwant to see that school work is
made as practical as possible. Mothers,
encourage your boys in the things that
will train them toward, and not away
from their life-Work; that will train them
toward the farm or sthe shop-not away
from it.
shall delight to mail bulletin No. Io3
from our agricultural experiment station,
to all boys sending in their request for
This bulletin gives some
information about corn growing.
Get it and famiiarize yourself with the
score card for judging corn. Address all
inquiries and requests for membership to
S. R. MYERS,
Rrandnn Miss