The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-15
TIES HELP
BETTER FAR MING
Thirty Contribute to Work OF
New United Agricultural
Board.
BOYS BIG CORN YIELDS
| wcnty-Six Made More Than
100 Bushels to Acrc-Task
Hardly Begun.

NJ fewer than thirty Virginia coun-
'leS nave agreed to contribute from
their funds to aid in the demonstration
WORK To be prosecuted this year under
the direction OF the United Agricultu-
raj Hoard. Members of the board AFRO
very much encouraged by this show
ing.
1t is believed that hereafter instead
OF being necessary To go before boards
"i supervisors TO ask for such appro-
rriotions. the principle trouble will be
to keep them from offering to carry
on tho work and asking the states co.
operation. The board has now about
as many as it can care for during the
year. :
II is tho intention OF tho United AZ
ricultural Board to at least duplicate
the amoant of county funds a%ppropri-
atcd from the different sources of the
boards rcvcnue The Bureau Of Plant
Industry, in Washington. is spending
a great deal of money in Virginia in
thiS work. and intends to spend more.
Tic department. OF Public Instruction
- aiding In the demonstration work
among boys. while tho Department OF
Agriculture is giving tho farmcrs in,
stiiutcs, and the Virginia Agricultural
Collesc, ut Biacksbure, the movable
schools. or the demonstration of lhe
work OF it's experiment. station.
Zig Results Among Huy..
Perhaps the most astonishing rcsul,
is that among the boys. In many
counties tho youngsters have been or
ghnizcd into corn clubs. and tho dcm-
constructors for tho Bureau OF Plant In
dustry have aided them, along with
tlicir daddies.
r. o. sandy. chief of demonstrator
for Virginia., called on Governor Mann
yesterday and presented him with q
list OF the school boys who have made
big crops of corn during 1910. This
list shows that no fewer thar twentr-
six Virginia boys made more than 100
bushels OF corn on their acres during
the past season. AS to the boys who
made more than scvcnty-nvc bushels
and those Who made more than atty
bushels. thcir name is legion.
In .~tppomattoX county the average
among all the boys In tho clubs was
ciGhty-two bushels 10 the acre. SiN
hoys in this county alone passed the
loo-bushcl mark.
AS has been many times published
Maurice Olgers, of Dinwiddic county,
took the prize Tor tho state with his
l6T l-a bushels.
These almost unbelievable results
have greatly enthuscd the prime NOV
crs in the work. superintendent j. ID
EsElcston, Jr.. OF the Department OF
Public Instruction. did not know him
self what he was starting when he
sent out his first circular, something
like Il year e
Wants 200 Bushels.
Governor Mann said yesterday that
he would be disappointed il some che
III Virginia docs not pass tho 2o0-bushcl
mark during 1911.
The county demonstrators are APP
pointed from men who Will give their
hes, efforts to tho work. u course,
they may continue work on their OWN
farms. but they are expected TO give all
the aid and counsel. both 10 men and
10 boys. required of them.
Counties which have agreed to con
tribute to the salaries oil these dom
constructors. with the amounts, are as
Amherst. $500; Nelson. $40; Albcmarlc,
slco: Orange. $780, Culpeper, $500;
Fairfax. $500; Loudoun. $500; Louisa,
$500: %Fluvanna, s200: Goochland, 5000;
fIcnrico. $500: Chesterfield. SI03: Anic-
lila. $50: King William, SlG0; Halifax.
800: Rockingham. s200; Augusta. $500;
| WcStmorcland. $500; P~owhatan, $3.50;
buckingham, $500; Cumberland $500
Appoma,tox. 500: Nottoway. $3.50; Din
Wilde. $500; Prince George. $500;
Brunswick. $500; Grcencsvilic, $500;
N~anscnond, 500.