New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-08

It IS prerequisite to a contented farming population and
to the securing OF the best things OF life.
WAS the work on that hot August day over the can
w ming outfit and in the conied worth while?
You could not ask it had YOU the faces Of these
State boy and girl champions And the old folk at
homc-wcrc those DAYS worth the heart pulse, the
flaming eyes. the throb OF mother love and pride that
greeted them back on the farm
There were scyenty-hvc boys and girls like John and
Mary who won that Washington trip and lis week OF
dazzling JOY There are two hundred thousand OF their
kind in land who striving in this grca, work
The winning OF the Washington trip is not all Those
who did not win raised themselves above the plane OF
plodding dreary lives Their effort in youth will never
be lost With the coming OF winters season in life their
homes will be brighter their barns fuller, their lives the
swceter, for it. No. the winning OF the trip is not all
The sver-tongued BRYAN, who awoke a nation with
the lotiness Of his prince OF Peace, looked into their
eyes, and lump in his throat. Fight your battles
on a higher plane than the battlefield. he cried 1T
is far better to lift up than to razc and far better to
grow crops than TO participate in that starvc.
And the big hearted Champ Clark, with the whole
some brusk candor that make him liked by men,
charged them a a father would Stick to the farm,
he said, "and keep out Of politics"
Nobody who had the opportunity missed the chance
to address them; nobody but who felt it an honor 10
talk TO them For a whole week they were the capital
street newsies knew the club boys and the garden
and canning club girls Their pictures and their record
filed the dailicS
wish YOU could have seen Walker Lee Dunson OF
Alexander City, Alabama. the foureen-y ear-old boy
who broke the world record this last season when he
produced 2327 bushels OF corn OF land at
cost OF less than twenty cent a bushel.
He didn't look a bit pulled up over il, Or over all the
things the Secretary Of Agriculture aid about him. He
tool; il all with the nonchalancc OF a veteran.
But the girls Little Hattie IIolbrook, from away
out in Utah for instance how her checks famed and
her ewes parlcd she stepped across the lawn to take
her diploma from the Secretary. DO YOU know what
Hattie did 10 win that trip to Washington? Well, She
led sixteen thousand club members. She took four first
prizes and one second her State Fair, by having the
best flower garden of petunas and aSers; for eXceing
in sewing for putting up and better canned fruits
and vegetables than the others for making the best
starch from potato culs And such modest, quiet
little soul she is,
And there was her team mate, Merle Hyer, the sew
enteen-ycar old potato club boy champion from Utah.
Merle raised 16l bushels of potatoes one acre OF
Utah land in a season Of drouth, and al a cost OF less
than eight cents a bushel He cleared S39SlO on that
piece OF land Look at that YOU who say there IS
nothing in farming
From New Jersey they came and Massachusetts,
from the far South and the far North. Why, there a
railroad in New Jersey that begs the girls of the canning
clubs Tor all the canned tomatoes they can put up 1t
wants quality products One little girl sold this cor
poraon lO4 cans al a dollar and ten cents dozen.
The local dealers bid for them The railroads went one