The Washington times., 1913-01-19
BOY CORN GROWERS
CONE TOMORROW As
UNCLE SANS GUESTS
Weeks Stay in Capital Prize
Given Fifty Champions by
Wilson's Department.

Fifty boys. who are the star" corn
growers of the United States. win ar
rive in Washington tomorrow morn-
ing for a weeks stay as the guests u
the Department of Agriculture. The
trip to washington u the prize offered
by the department for the best acres
of corn in both North and South
Twenty-Five Of the boys are from the
South and the others from the North
and West.
The corn club movement was started
in 1900 by the late Dr. g. A KNAPP.
who, after a conference with Secretary
Wilson. started the systematic organi-
zation of Southern corn growers. Later.
ON account of the number OF boys who
made good showings in the annual con-
tests. il was decided to organize clubs
for boys. and since that time the move
ment has grown until nearfy every
county in the South has its corn club
Will Can On President.
Last summer the boys of the corn
c,ub made wonderfully successful crops
on their plats of ground Many Of
them produced more than 100 bushels OF
corn to the acre. and nearly all OF
them were far ahead of the State av-
erage.
program of entertainment which
will include a visit to the President, an
audience before the Committees on Az
riculture OF Congress. and an inspection
~ the various offices of the Department
Of Agriculture, has been arrangeo- Ins
boys will be in the personal cnarse "
prof O. B. Martin, assistant IN IN
afsce Of the farmers cooperative dem
opSfraffon work
List Of Corn Champions.
Fo,Iowing is a list Of the boys who are
expected tomorrow and the yieid per
acre of their crop Of last summer:
Up. Leach, Union Grove. Ala. 3D.
Willie Atchison, McCaiia. Ala. DE-
lester Garrard, Magnolia, Ark. BAD
Robert ConnaIly, Mena. Ark. lis Z-si
Horace Calhoun, Scott. Ark, ,(3.1i pounds
seed cotton; Richard Miller. Baker
Fla. 1928; walter Bridges. Dawson
Ga. i5s bushels six pounds; Byron BOZ
TON Zeieler. Ga, III bushels thirty-sx
rounds: John NJ. Cobb, Voweiis Ain'
Ia 131h: Carlous Reddock, summer
land Miss, 2O6.6; George z west
Kinston. n. C., Is4 bushels forty-sn
hounds: Herbert Allen. Punso: y; q
eighty-three; Elston Coleman, Ne"KSezss, sS "a
POUNDS seed cotton); Ernest NJ joyce.
Venters. S. C., so7 bushels ten PrSeS; PoIhSeS;;
Edgar s. BURY, Taylor. s e, HerS
Mckibbon- C,uileoka, Tenn, 15s bushets
twenty pounds; 1i. Ear, Ians payiI a. sroeEnDH. D
Amb. rsf- Ca I67: Lester Brayant. Rock
eId. KY iss Ear. sI.r zellsa: Mar.sn,o%n. GSSps1.
w. va, 1000. Ernest Russell Sou.n
Hadiey. Mass. $50: Thornton sherman
Newport, r. l.: Resea Cornweil, New
man. M, Iso4S; Herman Rucker. De
catur. NJ, 1854. Ivan Cobie. Charies.
ton, III. 1os.5s; Ivan Hocser, ls..eo; Sert
Waggoner, Gales. H.. 1850; Yeon keily'
Monticello, H., 1850; Ralph Wooterss
Moweaqua; III; $50; Glen avn n, GoTson. Rs1.
mond IN 50 90: Leo Miller. Springfield.
III. HES; Robert Michael, AssumP-
tion. H.: Robert Reeder, MENDOZA ILL, III,
IN. 50: John s. Lane, Lacon III; Wiz
son francis. McNabb. III. $3.50; VIII
lam Southwark, Kinmundy. H. H.tS'
Wilbur Corbin. Wheeler. Ill., >Geo; De
wey Hanes, Arcanum. Ohio. ISL. Le-
roy Nichols, Highland. Md, 1000