The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-01-25
TEN BOYS CORN
CLUB DISTRICTS
Natural Conditions In
Counties EquaIized
$500 IN CASH PRIZES

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Offered by the state Department OF
Asriculture-T. b. Parker, Demon
s~trator, Head of Boys Corn Club
Neutrality-suspicious. Governing the
Contests.
The State Department Of Agricul-
ture has redistricted the State for boys
corn clubs, dividing the State into
ten districts, arrang ring them SO as to
provide, as nearly as possible, an
equality in conditions in the counties
included in each district.
The Board of Agriculture at its
December meeting appropriated $500
for premiums to boys corn club con-
teStantS.
The contestants are to be between
the ages OF IL and II years. Any boy
becoming II years old by June first
will be eligible, and any boy who IL
now II but will be IS not later than
August first will be eligible to enter
the contest.
The rules governing the contest will
be about the same as they were last
year. except that any boy viii be per-
nitted to get any person to break his
land for him. The younger boys are
not heavy enough to handle a large
tWO-horSe pillow in heavy land, but af-
ter the lane is broken each boy must
do the remainder of the work himself.
If it is known that any boy permits
another person to do the work or to
help in the work after the land Is
broken until all cultivation is finished
he Will be ruled out Of the contest.
Only $40 worth OF commercial fertili-
gers may De used IN each acre. h
plat Of land must be a full acre. Less
than an acre will not be considered.
The plat Of land must not be less
than a half acre in widtn. Square plats
are preferred. Only boys living on the
farm can compete for these prizes.
The plat Of land nus be a part OF
some regular field in the farm, and
not a garden spot, a town lot, or q
plat BELONGING to some city or other
corporation. The contestant may use
all the home raised manure he can
get. Cotton seed, cotton seed meal,
city garbage, fish T.. fish scrap Will
be considered as commercial fertili-
zers.
The prizes aggregate $50 for each
district, as follows:
First prize, $25; second prize. SIS;
third prize, SO.
The county superintendent of pub
lie instruction are asked TO cooperate
with demonstration r. =. Parker in
this work, so as to get the most boys
bOooI i ~ 1lLi'I liz L I' ~ II
age yield made by the Boys in this
state last year was 81 bushels per
acre, With q record like that every
enteTprieing citizen should encourage
the movement. The boy who succeeds
in growing Il large crop of corn stands
4 good show Of developing into a mar
who will also grow large crops.
Mir. Parker says: want a hun
dred or more boys in each county tC
enter the contest. Application blanks
and II her literature Will ha ready IT
a few weeks, but the boys can beSfr
work now and send in their applica-
tons later. Blanks, etc, will be sent
TO the superintendent Of public instruc-
ton liz each county, or direct to boys
applying for them Mr.. I. O.. Schaub
Of the A. K M. COLLEGE, IS co-Operaun
with NE in the Boys Corn Clubs
and between US we hope to visit Boys
Corn Club meetings in quite a number
Of ~counties in the State.
Letters of enquiry OF for Application
blanks should be addressed to 7. b
Parker, Demonstrators, Raleigh.
The Districts.
The Boys Corn Club districts are a
follows:
First District-Camden, Currituck
PaSouOtank, PerquimanS, ChOWan
Washington, 1'yrrell, Dare, Hyde
beaufort, Panllico.
Second .sistrict-Gates. Hartford
BERTHE, Martin, Northampton, Halifax
EdgecOmbe. Wilson. Warren.
Third District-Pitt, Greene, Wayne
Lemon Craven, Jones, Carteret, Ons
low, Dnplin, Pender
Fourth District-Vance, Granville
DurhAIn. Nash, Johnston
Wake, Chatham, Lee.
Fifth D~istrict--Person, Orange. Cas-
Well, Alamance, Rockingham. Gull
ford, Randolph, Stokes, Forsyth, Da
wilson.