The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-03-24
Entries CLOSE APRIL |
D. 10 ,oIV CORN AND PIG CLUB.
..o Prizes Are Offered Boys
!" tne County. a Letter From
- demonstration Agent.

,,rch regret that the time is
,.fnq near when the entrance TO
oi0' a.o and pig clubs will close in
l4 4,,. Of the fact that we have the
VIZ ~, Of only a few of the many boys
Ho +5c county who should join one
both Of these clubs. We take this
u NJ making a final appeal to all
i"1 -1a,s+ad in the work that they may
lhtei1 o+her boys to join before 1t Is
lAuuIIo This request is to boys
100 IOWA already joined, to parents,
WIN , ,' and business men as well.
teaOnC Jnow of a boy from 10 to Is
lease ~ write or talk to MIN anu MS
p aronts in person. Explain the WORK
pa tban. what it means TO the boy
" the county, now ana later.
anu is M reason why Terrell coun-
lneiG LID not have as large a repre-
~ 9n It;on in this club work as any
'eHya t,' in the state. What it takes
coum o+ this representation is the com
10 49,, "a interest and support OF every
O it;1on in the county. Without TINS
ciliAV II-orl, will fail. Will we allow
Ine " haDpen in one of the fore
SUI connties of the state?
nlC T5inking that it would be conduc-
Two to your work list OF prizes was
np,hIished a few weeks ago IN Inc
PPo,,son News. 1t is true that the
D~onT of these prizes were not nor
a anniJ not be published in view OF
t tGo fort that the subscriptions had
.u boan made. We hope to make
H tbo fret prizes $500 and $500 for
W.. snrn and pig clubs respectively.
TTin amounts will pay the expenses
lf tho winners to the corn show III
a. 1tonta next fall, and the short
s use at the State College of Agri-
e o,i+nrp next January. The other
nrizes will range from $1,000 IN val
no down. The latter may be some
ogricnlturaI implement, suit OF
aio+bes agricultural library, a sub
Sorintion to some good farm paper or
oosb We will have to solicit all or
tSoso nrizps from the board of educa-
ZION and the business men OF the
oo,ntv some of whom have already
Iihoraliv contributed. What will you
nivp2 We haven't had time to solicit
these prizes in person, but you Will
Do rs a great favor by mailing US
YOUR subscription.
Although these clubs are in their
infancy in Georgia they are dong
more than any other one thlng To-
ward the development Of the agrl-
cultural resources of the Southern
states The benefits of these clubs
are more plainly seen in sections OF
the country where they have existed
for longer time than in this state.
In Canada they increased the wheat
crop five bushels per acre. The same
increase in the Kentucky corn crop
for 1910 was 1S,500,00O bushels,
worth about $10,000,000. This sum
would have paid the expenses of the
states public schools for two and
half years. Similar figures for the
state of Georgia do not come very
far behind these.
1t is one of the most deplorable
4 facts of Southern farms that boys
who are reared on the farm have
tendency to leave it as soon as they
can depend on their own resources,
sometimes even before this, and seek
some other way of earning a living.
They look on the farm as place OF
4 hard knocks and drudgery. They
have been given no part in the farm
work, and, consequently, have no
interest in it. The natural boy likes
4 to raise pigs and corn when they are
his individual property and when he
s is given an active instead of a pas
SiVe part in the work. AS proof
that these clubs are keeping boys
4 on the farm we will give one strlk-
ing instance. Five years ago the
question, DO you intend to stay on
the farm when you grow up?" was
4 put to 1854 boys in the rural schools
OF Iowa, an ideal agricultural state,
and 157 of them answered No. "
Then the corn clubs and true agri-
cultural education began to get in
their regeneration work. The boys
were Influenced to form new ideas of
farm life. After five years of this
educational work the same question
was put to ia boys, and 1872 of them
answered Yes, | intend to stay on
Ine farm when l grow up" This
one thing is enough to warrant more