The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-01-15
Are Having Their Effect
On Fathers.
OR. MUTCHLERExPlAINS HOW
The Mature Farmers Are
Waking Up to a Sense
Of Obligation.
WHAT SOME BOYS HAVE DONE

Dr. freQ MutcnleT, Iue NoNei IL
ment agent for the Boys Corn Clubs
of the State, was at the Commercial
Club meeting here. The Courier
Journals editorial, "Enlarging the
Farm Output" had attracted his
attention. When he was asked II
any work was being done with the
adult farmer in Kentucky, he smil-
ed and said:
mot in such an extensive way az
in Texas, but we are interesting the
men more than you might imagine
In a great many neighborhoods the
men are beginning to ask: If the
boys can raise these big crops, why
can't we do the same?'
"It might interest you people
little to know that there are two
things which shape and make a
boys life-a strong parent or par
ents, a strong teacher at some little
schoolhouse back in the hills. But
I'm drifting away from the ques-
lions you have put to me. More
than fifty farmers over the State
have written to me in the last year
and asked for the same printed in
structions which l send out to the
boys in the corn clubs. l have sent
the slips and have asked for the re-
ports at the end Of the season, to
learn the results. Each one Of
these men grew ten or twenty acres.
and the results are stupendous.
Here in your own county you,
of course. know that Herman Gall
rein, of Valley Station. harvested
from ten acres of ground 1898
bushels of corn. You also know
that his oldest son won the first
prize and his second son won the
second prize at the Commercial
Clubs New Years reception at the
Louisville Hotel. Their yields were
146 and 40 bushels per acre. :.
Jefferson Is naturally a rich
county agIiculturally; so We will
take a crop grown near Leitchfeld,
Grayson county, where the average
per acre is twenty bushels. R. G.
McGrew grew $50 bushels on his
ten acres. while his son, Gus, grew
over seventy-three bushels on one
acre.
"A. H, Douglas. of Elizabeth
town, prepared carefully ten-acre
plot next to the town and was able
to produce LOO bushels of corn.
His Oldest child. Harvey, a little
rascal of ten, raised 1872 bushels
and thirty-six pounds of corn on an
acre.
Down at Rockfeld. below Bowl
ing Green, where live. there is a
boy who raised fine crop last year,
but failed to make a record. This
year Lester Bryant tried again and
succeeded in growing 14s bushels
and fifty-five pounds on an acre.
His father had become a convert to |
the new method Of cultivation and
tried his luck with ten acres. The
result was tremendous, for that Is a
section Of Warren county that does
not average over thirty bushels to
the acre. He grew $40 bushels on
he ten acres of land. close to very
broken ground clothed in scrub ce-
lars.
''The editorial In the Courier
Journal is o. X. and hope and
pray that we can in the future do
more for the adult farmer than we
rave done in the past; but the boys
ire waking up their dads In a won
ierful way. You might say that II
my farmer anywhere in the State
wishes to enroll in this work and
ret the bulletins. ETC.. shall be
lad to have him send his name to
ne. BY the way. | should say
hese crop figures are authentic
md | have all the data on file.
night also say that ! have seen sew
raj of these crops myself.
I've talked long time. but II
on a topic that lies very close to
ny heart. and must say again one
hing. Notice that the boys who
ave raised huge crops have fathers
rho are doing things. too. The
oys haye had q strong. steadying
influence behind them. This Il not
fad. but n great educational moxa-