The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-08-29
TO RAISE
....M0RE. |. CORN
....'..' IN SOUTH.
STATE AGENTS Or AGRI.
CULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
HAVE MEETING
REPRESENTATIVES PRESENT
FROM OKLAHOMA
Object Is 10 Make Inc South
I sfsst Corn
Country
Special to Daily Leader.

Special to Daily Leader.
Washington, Aug. Fifteen state
agents of the department OF agrlcnl
ture, principally from Texas, Louisia-
ma and Oklahoma. aaye been In CON
feie ence here with DR.. A. s. Knapp,
who Is In charge OF the field demon.
stration work,
The conference this year was de.
voted chiefly to corn growing. one OF
the cherished plans OF the deparl-
ment being to make the South the
great corn growing region OF the Unit,
ed States, and in this particular work,
~. d. Greer the departments agent
whose headquarters are at Nacog
doches. stands at the head OF tl.
class.
w. +. Proctor, the agent whose
headquarters are at Tyler. describes
Greer's work as follows:
"Ordinarily," he said, II takes 100
ears of corn to shell buShel. The
ears Greer grows will shell bushe,
from fortythree cobs.
'Bpt Greer, !, can do anything he
wants with corn. He can produce A
corn that grows two ears to- tae stalk
o. one that grows three ears. He
crosses breeds, selects seeds anil
seems. able to make corn develop any
way he wants. All the corn that he
has raised this year and Is willing to
LEI go out Is already spoken for. There
are applications from all over the
Southern country for just single ear.
for which the farmers are willing Ia
pay any price.
There are dbout 5000 more appli
cations in now, iinan can be filed. He
could get AZ many thousand acres OF
land as he wanted and make n for.
tune Just raising seed corn, but h
keeps on working for the Government.
Greer can raise 100 bushels OF corn
TO the acre aud not spend any, mora
money doing Il than the average farm.
er would spend raising twenty-five
Any man who wants to can raise elgn-
ty bushels.
The agent alSo discussed the growti
of the Corn club movement In the
South. 1--WE got 200 Corn clubs in MY
part OF the state. The boys who are
In Them are going to make real men,
Nr. Proctor told the meeting.
1T Is not every old farmer who
will take 10 the new methods ut 1rst.
bnt when ne raises 20 bushels OF cora
aud sees field which Is separated
flom his land by only a barbed wire
fence where a man Is raising sixty
bushels, he wakes up.
They have said all along that the
South was not corn country. | tell
you that heretofore we In the South
have not been corn people. Inten I've
farming and diversified farming. such
as the people are being taught now
by object lessons. are the things that
are going to put the South on a new
industrial level. They are putting
her there now"
Those present at the meetings in
cluded H. W. Acher. Tyler. Tex: ]. o.
Hughes, Marshall, Tex: G. w. Orms,
Timpson, Tex; w. +. Proctor. Tyler
Tex: w. w. Moore, Hope. Ark; NJ.
Snowden, Shreveport, La; William
Gamer, Denton. Tex: S. T. Tate, Wi
mona. Miss: B. l.. Mass, West Jack.
son, Miss. w. D. BENTLEY, Yukon,
okla; W. l.. English. Oklahoma City,
Okla; j. C. Phelps, Auburn. Ala: J..
II, watt Taladega. Ala: ]. w. Willis
Statesboro Ga; and j. D. Greer. Mac
ogdoches, Tex.