The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-19

field and plowed 1t. Then I advised
him to pillow again. When the boy
wanted some fertilizer his father re-
fused to permit him to buy until I
went security and promised to make
good all losses. If any The boy.
corn was measured this week and made
eighty-four bushels to the acre, His
fathers corn on three sides of tho
boys. made nine bushels pcr acre
When the corn was weighed and the
iather's went TO the pigs and the sons
sold for seed corn at So per bushel.
the father changed front. 1t was rich
TO hear him talk about his sons crop.
lie said If he had known how to make
corn twenty years before he would
have had decent clothes now and be
rated as somebody"
a Giri Corn-Gro,.er.
In Clarendon county. South Carolina.
there was 142 members In the Boys
Corn Club. and the average Of all was
sixty two bushels per acre. One little
girl. fourteen years old, Hannah Plow-
den, of Manning, South Carolina, want
ed to join the club She made 40
bushels and was lionized by her neigh
bors. Among other honors, the county
sent her to the great corn exhibit at
Columbia, South Carolina. While there
stalwart Senator was introduced to
her and remarked that he felt like
hugging any girl that could accomp-
ltsh SO much. and banteringly said. Il
know dozen boys in my county who
want to marry YOU" The girl replied.
There are hundred boys waiting
down in Sumter county,
At Rogers, Ark, Earl Hopping, a
boy fifteen years old, Joined the Boys
Corn Club, but his father was unable
to furnish him a horse or mule to
work his acre. and he broke goat to
harness and did all the work with it.
Note, in the accompanying picture. the
determined look OF the boy. in which
the goat shares. Also observe the
pillow adjusted to the goat and the
cart for hauling fertilizers.
paused a moment in my rapid out
line Of the Boys Corn Club work.
given much as l have given 1t here
teresting! I should like to learn the
yield Of corn per acre Of some Of the
boys"
II Will give you the names OF the
winners OF the first prize in each
State" I replied. Here is n duplicate
Of the list 1 handed her. giving the
names and addresses Of the winners
of the trip to the capital OF their
country, and also the yields OF their
bushel:
inghey A. Harden. Banks Ala, 40
bushels, 80 cents per oushel.
Ira Smith. Silver Ark, 119 bushels,
S cents per busheI
Joseph stone. Center, Ga. 1u2 5-y
bushels. 20 cents per bushcl.
Stephen G. Henry, Melrose, La,
1879 $40 bushels, 1876 cents per bushel.
William Williams, Decatur, Miss.
1854 bushels. is cents per bushel.
w. Ernest Starnes, Hickory, n. c.,
1iG 81 bushels. SO cents per bushel.
Floyd Gayer. Tishomingo, Okla,
% 1-12 bushels, s. cents per bushel
Jerry II. Moore, Winona, S. C.,
22S "a bushels. 43 cents per bushel
Norman Smith, Covington. Tenn.
t26 10 bushels, 81 cents per bushel
VIM. Rodgers Smith. Karnes City,
Tex. 1919 bushels, 1928 cents per
bushsl.
Maurice Olgers. Sutherland, Va, 1853
bushels. 40 cents per bushel
In addition second prize was given
from South Carolina, and one from tho
5iXth Alabama Congressional District
These were won by:
Archie Odom. Bennettsville, s. G.
IT. "a bushels, % cents per bushel
JOnn Williams, TUSCALOOSA, Ala,
SO 81 bushels, 40 cents per bushel.
There are points in that list worth
noting. aside from the remarkable
Yields" ! pointed out to my visitors.
You will note that the extraordinary
yield Of Jerry Moore was secured at
greatly increased cost per bushel This
follows past experience that excessive
yields are not SO profitable as medium
yields. Probably 100 to 125 bushels
TO the acre, on an average, yield
larger net income than 200 bushels or
over. The product of Archie doom,
III "A bushels at 23 cents per busnel
Is really more Of an achievement than
that OF Jerry Moore, 92S IA bushels at
AZ cents
You observe that the yield on. the
boys fields Is far in excess OF the
mems demonstration farms. The rea-
son is that the boys follow instruc-
tons closely: tho men think they know
how TO make a corn crop. and they are
guided largely by personal expert
ence OF little value.
Everybody Helps.
The crop of corn produced. In n
State has been affected moro readily by
the work with tho hoys than with tho
men, When thu boy wins. tho father.