Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1910-03-16
FIFTY. BOYS WANTED
TO Join the Boys Corn Club and
Raise Corn

Bread Is the staff Of life" The
United States Bureau of Agriculture
Is spending thousands of dollars an
nually to encourage the raising Of
the "staff of life'-corn. They have
tried and appealed for years to the
manhood Of our country, and largely
in vain. At last, as 1.-The child is fa
ther TO the man. and as the price of
the "staff of life" is unreasonable
high, our Bureau OF Agriculture, as
last resort, have, like the southern
Confederacy in it's last extremity,
appealed and called for the boy-man-
hood-the 1S-year-old boy volun-
teers-tO rally around the standard,
"staf OF life,' and go into the fields
and raise more corn on fewer acres,
with less work and smaller expense.
TO encourage these volunteer BOYS
the United States government offers
handsome prize. Our State Bu-
reau calls for 5000 boys in thi.; con-
test, and this number Is almost made
up and ii Will reach above the num-
Der. Just think OF it! Three thou
sand boys competing for these prizes
IN the corn contest in our own proud
State! What a stimulus TO agricnl-
ture, to corn raising! AS we look
down through the coming years he
That runs may read the uplift to the
farming world through this early
bending OF the twig in the way it
should grow.
Fifty boys wanted! Fathers of
| sons and owners Of soil, spare the
time, the boy and lay out the acre
and urge your boy to be "worthier
son OF worthy sire" Help him to
grow 40 to 60 bushels OF corn where
you have been accustomed to grow
10 to | > bushels. Oconee county to
the front with her boys!
Our County Superintendent of Ed
ucation issued the call and eleven
boys entered the contest. Since then
the number has reached twenty, and
we must have hity boys-won't be
satisfied with less than thirty. The
moneyed men Of Oconee must be in
terested in the boys, and will quickly
realize the great Investment and
gladly contribute to the prize fund
1t Will not be less than 500 and more
likely 500.
So, boys Of Oconee under is years
of age, with pride Of State, love Of
county, and a profound admiration
for tilling the soil, look out your
| acre, plan out your work, send your
name to w. c. Hughs, Superintend-
ent Of Education, and go to the
Court House on The 26th Of March
and get all the details as to raising
that acre Of corn, and you will have
taken very advanced step in the
study Of agriculture. South Caro-
lima holds the world record for the
largest yield Of corn on one acre,
both by man and boy. What has
been done can be duplicated and
even surpassed, and now is the
time.
Teachers Of the public schools Of
Oconee, as lifelong tiller Of the
SOIL and corn raiser, and now as a
member Of the County Board of Ed
ucation, appeal to you to lay this
matter before your boys and urge
and encourage them to join the Bows
Corn Club and make up the fifty
boys. Richland school, though small
in numbers, will furnish seven of
these boys. Surely the other 70
schools of Oconee will furnish the
| other forty-three boys.
The time to enter closes April 1st.
TO start and encourage this work, as
| an officer in Westminster Bank I am
authorized to offer $25, in the name
of this bank, to the boy under 18
years old who makes the greatest
yield Of corn on one acre in Oconee
during the year 1910. Other contri-
buttons are solicited.
J. p. Stribling,
Member Co. Bd. Of Education.
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