The Green Forest tribune., 1914-01-30
GREAT CROP GAINS
 WITH NEW METHODS
BOYS CLUBS SECURE AVERAGE CORN YIELD OF 45 BUSHELS
 AN ACRE.
ELDER FARMERS ALSO PROFIT
Use of Scientific Principles Would h. crease Crop Values Nearly $1oo,-
 100000, Reports Show.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Little ROcK.-W. J. JernlSan, aSSlSL- ant state agent in charge of demonstra- tion club work in Arkansas has completed his report for the last year, which shows that during 1913 counties in Arkansas, the total en- rollment of boys being 2,359. The aver age yield per acre of the boys report ing, was 45 bushels The average cost per tushel was 36 1-2 cents. The average yield of 45 bushels per acre was more than double the average yield in Arkansas under the old methods of cultivation.
 Following is a list of those, one being girl, who made 100 bushels and over per acre:
 Name and Address. No. Bushels. Louis Epstein, Luna Landing :. 100 Floyd Peters, Okoiona .........100 Edwin Moore, Hot Springs. .. .155.25 Jean Garner, Paragould ...... .102.5 Harold Rogers, Paragould ....102.33 Clyde Halbrook, Franklin .106 1 Clyde Phillips, Wyman ...... .102.75 Allen M. Rush, Melbourne .....112 Charley Benson, Shannon 100 | Russell Benson, Shannon ......10S Willie Deaver, Crockett ....... JOG | Fred Going, Pocahontas 100 Miss Delphine Moore, Wyman. .101 Eldon Moore, Wyman ........101 Donald Jones, Greenland .102 l To- Tolp Grover Choate, Ell Paso .....116.36 W. D. Sego, Griffithville .110
 Cotton and Canning Clubs.
 "The cotton clubs have been con ducted in about 30 counties in the state with total enrolment of S00," says Mr. Jernigan. "The average yield .Ter acre -f .S ez : taI sf tae. .aags reporting 1,osl poi'nds. lhis is double the average of the state made under the ordinary method of cultivation. The average net profit per acre of the boys reporting $25.10.
 The canning club work for girls has been conducted in 13 counties with a total enrolment in round numbers of about 500. The girls reporting have grown over one quarter million pounds | of tomatoes in their gardens. They have not only grown tomatoes in their | gardens, but have grown number of other vegetables. The total value of all products sold from the one tenth acre gardens amount to over $14,ooo. The average cost of production per one-tenth acre is $1O24, with an aver age net profit per 1-10 acres of $35.07. Arkansas has the honor of having girl who holds the record of having made the greatest net profit of any girl in the 12 Southern states in which the club work has been conducted, ac- cording to information received from the Department of Agriculture at Washington. The girl is Miss Fay Parker of Beebe, who made a net profit of S152.S3 on one-te1rth of an acre.
 What it Means to State.
 In showing the value of this work, MT. Jernigan points out that the corn club boys have made an average of 25 bushels more per acre than those using old methods and that a gain of 25 bushels an acre on the 2,475,000 acres planted in corn in Arkansas in 1913, would mean an increase of 61,- S75,000 bushels of corn for the state, if every acre were worked under de monstration club methods. At 70 cents a bushel this would mean an annual increase of $43,312,500 in the value of the states corn crop. In the same way thel cotton crop would show a gain of $40,000000 if every acre of cotton we're grown under de monstration club methods.
 c. w. Watson, who is in charge of the, farm demonstration work in Ark ansas, of which the boys and girls club work is part, has also compiled a report which sholws that remarkable results have been obtained during the past year by the farmers who have been employing {he methods advocat- ed by the government experts.
 During the past wear there have been 72 local agents inl the various coun- ties working in direct contact with the farmers and conducting farm oper- ations along the lirses of scientific agri- culture prescribed by the Department of Agriculture MT. Watson's report deals only with tfhe work of 50 local agents among the white adult farmers of the state.
 These 50 agents had 1.454 demon
 
 NaM Ark3 ale PoSfno acfa