The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-10-10
Corn Palace al State Fair.

The great new corn palace b now
completed on the State Fair grounds.
1t is the largest ever built in the South.
1t is so arranged y to give splendid eff
feet to all the exhibits, being supplied
with large windows and transoms, ma
king it light and perfectly ventilated.
Over the large arehed door to the pal
ace from the main entrance viii be
placed a great electric sign 3 feet wide
by 40 feet long. through which will be
flashed every half minute the words,
Boys Corn Club Palace
The whole building will be 1lumina
ted with beautiful white electric lights,
making q visit to the fair at night lust
as advantageous as in the day time. 1t
will be in every respect the equal of
any of the largest corn palaces Of the
North and West that some years ago
attracted the attention of visitors from
all over the world.
1t will more clearly than anything
else could represent the advancement
of Mississippi as q corn producing state.
It will show the genius Of the Missis-
sippi farmer boy as Q scientific farmer.
1t will show what the schools and col
leges, and especially the agricultural
high schools, are doing, and this work,
when we come to think of it, has been
marvellous. 1t has not been many years
when thirty million bushels was the
average yield for the whole state of
Mississippi.
But that was before the coming of
such men as c. B. Cobb into this glori-
Gus agricultural empire.
Then q few years later the produc-
ton ran up to forty-fve million BUSH
els, then to fifty and finally in 1912 to
sixty million bushels. Last year the
work of the corn club boys began to
tell. Prof. Cobb had taken the field
and was active in directing the work.
, and his enthusiasm among the boys
spread like wildfire. He went into the
fields with Them and personally direct
ed the preparation of the ground be-
fore the crop was planted. Then he
saw that good seed was planted and he
showed the Importance of this seed and
selection in a way that nobody doubted
its Importance. All during the grow
ing of the crop he visited the fields in
the different counties, instructing the
boys, with the result that this year a
yield of seventy million bushels is pre-
dicted.
During all the years previous to this
enlightened work, millions Of dollars
, was sent out of the state for corn.
There was scarcely a large farm in the
state that did not buy from outside
states by carloads. and in some in
stances whole train loads were bought
at a time. This was a tremendous
drain on our that would have
bankrupted a less favored state. It not
only took millions of cash each year
that never came back, but it retarded
the stock raising industry, especially as
to horses, mules and hogs. There were
actually many skeptics who believed
that good mules, hogs and horses could
not be raised here, because no attention
was paid to that industry; when, as q
matter of fact, this has now been
proven the greatest stock raising sec-
ton III the world.
1t is estimated that ninety million
bushels of corr are used in the state
every year. So it will be e that
with seventy million bushels this year
the state will come nearer to living at
home than in any year of its his
tory.
Monday, Nov. 8, has been set aside
as Farmers Union day at the Big Fair.
and the attractions this year should
bring every farmer in the state, to-
gether with his entire family.