Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1910-02-05
Boys Corn Club.

Lie oFSaDiZdtIou Ot Liic bUSs SOrI
Club. will take place at one clock P. N
on Monday Feb. 7th, instead Of at two
as originally announced.
The change is made SO as to give Mr.
Roy sufficient time to thoroughly organ
ize the Boys, and finish early enough. sc
| that should there be any desiring to &c
to New Orleans that afternoon for the
MarH Gras celebration, no in con venien ce
will be experienced in taking the after,
noon trains.
Within the past month. Mr.. Roy has
been organizing these clubs 10 those
oparishes where one did not exist before
The work has started off well and from
the enthusiasm aroused among our
school boys, we have every reason to
believe that the one in this parish will
be great success.
We may not equal some of the parishes
in number. but we will equal them in
the percentage enrolled, and very likely
surpass several in enthusiasm.
The movement is not only State Wide
but is National. The object OF the clubs
organized in Louisiana. has been fully
explained to the boys. by the superin-
tendent, Of this parish, but an extract
from the Arkansas Circular for 1910 Gov
ers the theme very generally, as follows:
1Such work inspires respect for labor
aad love for farm life teaches how the
farm may be made to pay more en-
courages the study Of soils, plant life.
moisture conditions and plant food; and
impresses the Importance of drainage.
good seed and thoro' cultivation. The
boy who has engaged in contest OF this
kind, where friendly yrivalry exists, wheth-
er successful or not, has gained practical
training of far reaching value and last
ing signiticanees. He has been brought in
touch with the great natural laws on one
hand, and with modern science on the
other. He has been led to work and
think, and to apply knowledge, to the
practical affairs of life. By his ewa et-
forts, he has made crop. and dignified
himself by accomplishment. He has es-
tablished in his own mind, for all times,
the relation of the theory and practice.
the adaptation OF the abstract to the con-
crete. He goes back to school, with great
respect for his books, and with deeper
appreciation OF their lessons, has been
developing manhood, and sterling citi-
zenship. and learning the real nobility
of TOLL
The New Orleans papers, the Picayune
and the Times Democrat are now fre-
quently and editorially proclaiming the
virtues of diversification, and not seldom
point to the Boys Corn Clubs. as being
a powerful agent in this respect. The
Picayune in one of it's editorials, this week.
accounts for a farmer at Greenwood
Miss, who grew six hundred bushels of
turnips on one-half acre of ground.
The Times Democrat, in lengthy
editorial of Feb. 2, (this week. among
other things, says as follows aAs We
have already noted, corn was substituted
for cotton in majority OF cases. The
yield was excellent everywhere. The La.
State Bureau, puts the average at 16 liz
bushels per acre, which is better than in
the past but the United Sta es Depart
ment estimates it as high as 90 bushels
per acre, which places Louisiana second
in yield among the Southern States St.
Landry planted 100000 in corn. La.
yette $1,000. Point Coupee $1,000.
Union $4,000. East Feliciana 67.720,
Claiborne 63.372 and Avoyelles 10000,
St, Charles harvested 40 bushels to the
,cre. Lafourche 33. Grant and st. Tam
nanp 25, these figures are from the state
-eport The federal Department estim-
stes are about 25 per cent higher, but
give no figures by parishes. The result
was encouraging. Corn
Clubs, particularly Boys Corn clubs have
oeen organized by the score. and the pro-
Mise is of greater corn acreage and
yield for next year and for all succeeding
7ears'
Each school in the parish win have
IN enthusiastic representation in the or
yanization. and q great many citizens
rave expressed their desire and intention
o be at the organization and hear U. S.
Special Agent, Mr.. V. L. Roy. Let every
,ody be at the Court House at one p. NJ.
harp. I