The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-02-23
SUMMARY OF REMARKS
OF o. B. MARTIN
At Meeting in Chamber of Commerce
At Union, South Carolina,
February 10, 1912.

The objects of the Boys Corn
Clubs as conducted by the United
States Department Of Agriculture
are as follows:
First, to teach the A B c of agri-
culture in practical manner.
Second, to teach love Of plant life
and value of soil.
Third, to dignity labor.
Fourth, to give purpose to youth
at a critical and opportune time.
Fifth, to teach earning and own.
ing.
Sixth, to help family.
Seventh, to show value of rivalry
and cooperation in the production
and marketing of crops.
Eighth, to vitalize schools.
: Ninth, to develop manhood and
womanhood.
Tenth, to help each boy to demon
strate good farming to bis commu-
nifty and to the world.
The following are some of the re-
snlts accomplished in this work in
1911: 55,O75 boys from twelve
Southern States were enrolled.
Seven Of the boys produced more
than 200 bushels of corn to the acre
at an average cost per bushel of
20 At cents per bushel. The aver
age of the prize winners who made
the trip to Washington was 1866 1-2
bushels.
Hundreds of other boys produced
between 100 and 200 bushels each
on their acres also at q low cost.
The record of Junius Hill, of At
talla, Ala. is a very striking one.
He grew 212 bushels per acre at a
cost of SO cents per bushel. Some
OF the other records were nearly as
good. For instance, Bennie Beeson,
OF Monticello, Miss, produced 227
bushels at a cost of II cents. Ben
Leath, of Kensington, Ga, pro-
duced 214 bushels at cost of 14.2
cents per bushel and Eber A. Kim
brough, of Alexander City, Ala,
produced 224 bushels at a cost of
1913 cents a bushel. Claude Nc
Donald, of Hamer, 5. G., grew 2lO
bushels at cost Of 33 cents. Fifty
two boys il Georgia produced yields
above 100 bushels. Their average
cost was Is cents per bushel. In
the Seventh Congressional District
alone in that State twenty-one boys
grew more than 100 bushels each on
their acres. In Yazoo County,
.M6s.. :, twenty -one boys averaged
111.6 bushels at an average cost of
1917. This makes a. net profit on
81 acres of S1,646.i3. In Monroe
County, Ala, twenty-one boys aver
aged It's bushels per acre. In Bun
combe County, n. c., ten boys aver
aged SS bushels per acre. In Edge
combe County, n. c., seventeen
boys averaged 97.7S bushels. In
Pitt County of the same State ten
boys averaged 85.S bushels per acre.
In Sussex County, Va. sixteen boys
averaged 81 3.5 bushels. In Lou.
don County, Va, twenty-one boys
averaged 80 2-3 bushels. In Rock
ingham County, Va. thirty-eight
boys averaged SO bushels. In AL
bemarle County, Va, thirty-one
boys averaged "A IA bushels. Ten
boys in Louisiana averaged 1905
bushels at an average cost of 10
cents per bushel. Seventeen boys
made between rs and 100 bushels
at an average cost OF 20 cents.
Ninety-two boys exhibited at the
Louisiana Fair. These ninety-two
boys grew 5,79l bushels.
The coming of the National Corn
Exhibition to Columbia in January,
1912, furnishes an occasion for ex-
ira effort on the part of the South
Carolina boys. South Carolina has
taken a prominent part of the Boys
Corn Work in the past. 1t will be
Il calamity if these boys fail this
year. The National Corn Show
hopes to have 800 prize winning
boys present in Columbia. 1t will
be fine if the delegation from Union
County should stand at the head Of
thn 1.cy