The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-02-06
The Corn Show.


| of the corn show now in Columbia.
To see them smile and look at their
bright eyes, all eager to see the 9TH
ers triumph, was grand sight to an
old man who said little, for he had
achieved little in growing corn, for
to him forty bushels on an acre was
fine, but here are boys from Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Lou
isiana, Texas, and other States who
last year made .record-breaking
crops of corn, with their badges GER
tifying to their success. Then the
canning club girls, how happy they
| looked, some of whom made enough
and to spare to pay their expenses
to the National Corn Show, to say
nothing of the value to them in the
effort. All honor to them for the
example set to all by the big yields
| they made. Then the Joy of being
in each others company and to form
| in line as they did on Wednesday
| last, march from the building to the
grounds, and there have games and
fun to their hearts content and each
| feel that they were in honored COM
pany. A whole book could be writ
| ten about this company of young
| folks and no doubt will be. Perhaps
that will be a boon to this twentieth
century and an example to the farm
ers of the South, for it is admitted
| by Northern and Western States, so
long the champion corn growers, that
| they cannot compete with the South
and the South's prolific corn, for
| their seasons are too short to grow
this corn and no varieties grown
there can produce such yields. Even
Kentucky, the home of pretty wo-
men, fine horses; and big ears Of
corn, does not compare with South
Carolina corn club boys in yield.
Now we will see some of the ex-
| pertinent stations of the various
States and what they are doing. In
the building to the left as we enter
We find Kentucky, whose exhibit Of
her products opens the eye to its
varied resources grasses, wheat,
barley, oats, and corn-huge ears of
mammoth yellow, also the large
white known as Boone county NAM
moth white, which by the way, was
awarded the prize over all competi-
tors, with Missouri a close second,
with fine specimens of the same
strain from Tennessee and Virginia.
Then Wisconsin with an ear of flint
corn that measured by actual meas
urement fourteen inches in length
| with the beautiful display of her
| products. Far away Washington
State was hard to excel, and those
big red apples were by the far the
| prettiest in looks of any, but in
flavor Virginia was first. Then Ohio,
| with it's wool and other things grown
| on it's farms, was an unusual sight
to Southern eyes. Nebraska, Bryan's
State, too, was there, and demon
strated the amount of water a single
stalk of corn used each day of its
growth for several days, varying
from three to eight pounds of water
each day, which shows why
| drought is so disastrous to corn at
| the critical period of its growth.
| Then New Jersey, our next presidents
| home, and New York. Several other
States were there to show the Won
derful country we live in and Its
| products. Then, too, our Southern
States all show that this land Of ours
can raise corn, grain, grass, and
fruits, if properly treated. Then to
see the number of bushels raised on
| a single acre show conclusively the
capacity of our soils to respond to
the proper mode of preparation and
| cultivation.
Each State, from Virginia to Tex
as, all proclaim the fact that new
day is dawning for the South and
grass, grain, and live stock is soon
to do for the South what it has for
the North and West, and forty acres,
mule and darkey making a scant
living out of cotton, lives out of his
| own farm with cotton surplus,
how is it to be done, but it will and
must come, for even little South
Carolina shows that she is not
land of poor soil when rightly used'
and Clemson with her co-laborers are
making long strides to show the
farmer how this is to be done.
Our national government was
there to show how to conserve our
forest resources, detect diseased
meats and animals, landscape
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