The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-17
WELT ARE WORK IN
THE COTTON MILLS
DEMONSTRATION
OVER IN AMHERST
Good Things Come to Pass in
One Of Best Held in
Good County.

Continuing the reports OF co-opera-
tive farm demonstration work. the re-
port from y. II Moore. local agent for
Amherst County, Will prove Interesting
Mr. Moore writes:
When We look back five years and
compare our county to what Ii was
then. the contrast impreSses upon our
minds the great Importance and value
81 demonstration work When the
work was started in our county. fifty
bushels OF corn was considered the ex-
IRENE limit Of corn production in this
county. The first year THE work was
inhu.urated We made record OF sew
nty-fOur and fourth bushels OF
corn per acre. This brought forth a
storm OF protests. such as: You did
not" u don't believe it, and "Im-
POSSIBLE" But under the most adj
verse conditions this record has been
raised 10 more than double this
amount We have 4 number OF corn
club boys who say that no previous
records shall be the standard Of corn
production for Amherst County.
have Il few corn club boys who tell this
story OF how he got his FIRST acre for
corn: Daddy would not tell me that
could have the land. and IL was get
ting late in the season. hut one morn
ing as he was going away from home
TO lie away all day. he met the demon
stration agent, md the agent asked
him If had plowed my land. Daddy
told him that had not Well, he
asked daddy what was the matter. and
whether he was going 10 let me have
the land or not.
Daddy told him that could have
the land. the agent came on and
told me that my father said / could
have the land and that l had better
get busy and pillow IL that day. as it
was getting late TO pillow for corn. SO
| got to work, and when daddy got
back | was nearly through blowing
my land. and he looked at me real
funny but did not say anything at
all. though / know that daddy was
real sorry that l had plowed that land
for II had about one-half stand or
clover on it. But let me tell YOU.
daddy has stood BY me ever since"
This was the entering wedge. for
both father and son have become very
enthusiastic demonstrators. This sew
enteen year-old boy is working twenty
six acres in corn this year. and is
helping in the other crops on the farm.
too.
Now since the first land was pIowed
many improved farming implements
have been put in use on this farm.
such as disc plow. a double action
disc harrow, a sulky cultivator. etc
AT the time the demonstration agent
began TO talk ure-brcd seed corn, we
had very few purc-bred things Of any
kind in our county. 1t was the pure
bred corn on the show tables. when
compared with the mongrci- bred corn
that first brought home the great les
son to the farmers. To-day perhaps
half OF the farmers are planting inn
proved seed corn. and in better seed
beds than before, and theirs is the
same Improvement In it's cultivation.
Pure-bred seed corn quickly turned
the peoples thoughts to pure-bred live
stock, which in turn materialized into
the Amherst Pure Bred Live Stock AS
ISOLATION. Then followed the har-
monizing and uniting OF every agency
for promoting agricultural and horti-
cultural Developments along with rural
education. AS result of this union
we have the Amherst County Fair AS
ISOLATION, holding its annual exhibit
TONS exhibiting $50 to 200 head OF
high-class pure -bred live stock. along
with very creditable agricultural and
horticultural exhibits and in addition
to these. full-fedged corn show
which would reflect great credit to any
county. The hay production Is on the
increase in Amherst County. Alfalfa
Is being very successfully grown on
a number of plats in our county, and
an increased acreage will be seeded
this fall.
The effects and results of the demon
stration work are far reaching and
are becoming quite apparent even
among those who have not taken up
the methods of the work. Demonstra-
ton work Is considered by thoughtful
men to be the backbone of agricultural
progress and development In this
county.
Carolina. ClinchfeIa and oh,o