The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1914-03-26

The Journal has received the fol-
lowing more timely card from Mr..
R. H. Kent, the county farm dem
onstration agent.
We very much regret the fact that
the time is drawing near when en-
trance to the clubs closes in view of
the fast that we have the names of
only few of the many boys Of the
county who should join one or both
Of these clubs. We take this means
of making final appeal to all inter-
ested in the work that they may in
duce other boys to join before it is
too late. This request is to the boys
who have alrerdy joined, parents,
teachers, and busioess men as well.
If you know of boy from 10 to IS
please write or talk TO him and his
parents in person. Explain the work
to them, what it means to the boy
and the. county, now and laaer.
There is ma re sson why this county
should not as large a representation
in this club work as any county in
the state. What it takes toPet this
representation isthe combined inter-
est and support og every citizen in
the county. Without this the work
will fail. Will we allow such to hap
pen in one OF the foremost counties
of the state?
Thinking that it would be con-
duetive to the work, list Of prizes
was published a number of weeks
ago in your county paper. It istrue
that the amounts of these prizes
were not nor could uot be Publish
ed in view Of the fact that the sub
scriptions had not been made. We
hope to make the first prizes $15
and S25 for Corn and Pig Climbs re-
spectively. These amounts will pay
the expenses of the winners to the
Corn Show in Atlanta next fall and
the Short Course at the State Col
lege Of Agriculture. next January.
The other prizes will range from $40
in value, down. the latter may be
some agricultural implement, suit
Of clothes, agricultural library, a
sllbscriptiont to sonle,good farm paper
or cash. We will have to solicit all
o these prizes from the Board Of
Education and the business men of
the county, some of which have all
ready iberaly contributed. WHAT
WILL Yog GIVE? We haven't had
time to solicit these prizes in person,
but you will do us a great favor by
mailing US your subscription.
Although these clubs are in their
infancy in this state, they are doing
more than any other one thing to-
ward the development of the awri-
cultural resources of the Southern
States. The becefits of these clubs
are more plainly seen in sections Of
the country where they have existed
for longer time than in this rtate.
In Canada they increased the wheat
crop five bushels per acre. The
same increase in the Kentucky corn
crop for 1910 was 10. 500, 900 bush
els, worth $4,000, 1000. This would
have paid the expenses of the states
public schools for two and a half
years. Similar figues for the state
of Georgia do not come very far be-
hind these.
1t is one of the most deplorable
cts of the southern farms that boys
no are reared Oh the farm have a
ldency to leave it as soon as they
n depend on their own resources,
d sometimes even before this, and
Elk some other way of earning a
ing. They look on the farm as
Jlace of hard knocks and drudgery.
hey have been given no part in
ne farm work, and consequently,
ave no interest in it. The natural
boy likes to raise pigs and corn when
they are his individual property and
when he is given an active instead
of a passive part in the work. As
a ,,ro,.f that these oI,1bs arc kaa,,ino