Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-08
INFLUENCE OF CORN CLUBS

Georgia has permeated every county
in the state The work and influence
of the clubs has spread far and wide.
The county in Georgia to-day that has
no corn club, if it is in an area where
corn can be grown at all successfully,
is very much the exception. This
wholesome movement on the part Of
the farmers of the state is referred to
as follows in the Savannah News:
Georgia counties that are not repre-
scented in the boys corn club work are
few and far between. Reports received
by the state College of Agriculture are
that not more than eight counties have
failed to get in line. Twenty-eight
have girls canning clubs Altogether
10000 farmer boys and $500 girls are
at work with their eyes fixed upon the
hundreds of prizes that will be award
ed to many of them next fall. The
prizes are more numerous than those
offered last year, and those in each of
a number of counties are worth hum
dTeds of dollars.
] The corn and canning club work isl
not a fad 1t is a serious part of the
farm work of the state and it isn't go
ing to die out within year or two, IT.
it ever does. The good results it al
ready has achieved show how inn
portant it is as part of the campaign
to make the farms of Georgia produce
greater and better crops. Now that
this years work of the clubs is fairly
under way a few predictions may Re
made as to its probable result
One is that the percentage of corn
club boys that carry the work through
the season end are in at the finish
will be larger this year than it was
last year. Efforts have been made to
limit the clubs membership to boys
who look upon the work seriously and
who are going to do everything they
can to make the land they cultivate
yie.d to its limit 1t is we'll for frivol-
ous-minded boys to learn early in life
| that they won't have as many chances
to make good" as the boys who arr
serious minded and who consider their
time too valuable to waste.
Another safe prediction is that while
the prize yield from one acre in the
state this year may or may not be
greater than that of lest year, the av-
erage production on the corn club
acres will be greater The boys are
year and the year before. They know
great deal more about how best to
prepare the soil and to plant and care
for their crops. Last year each Of
sixty-six boys produced more than 100
bushels of corn on an acre. If that
record is not broken this year it vii!
be surprising, in spite of discouraging
reports received as to the crops in
some sections of the state.
Georgia wants to keep her farmer
boys and girls on the farms. The corn
and canning clubs are sure to help
keep them there. The work enables
them to find a new effectiveness in
life on the farm, makes them happier
and more contented. But the corn
! cluo work Is not play. The boys know
that outside of weather conditions luck
has but little to do with producing a
prize yield of corn. The winners are
going to be those who do. the most and
best work. The boy who makes the
most corn on an acre in any county
may be written down as a boy who is
not afraid of hard work and who uses
his head all the time he is using his
hands
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