The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-04-02
TENNESSEE CHAMPIONS
BOYS CORN CLUB CONTEST
Two Young Farmers Produce More
Than 130 Bushels an Acre.

When a man made two blades o
grass grow where formerly one BLADE
grew, he was termed a wonder il
the days of old, and the Tennessee
boys who grew more than one hun
dred bushels of corn where, in the
census year of 1910, an average ot
less than 12 bushels was grown
show that wonders never end.
Two Tennessee boys, both from
East Tennessee, have shown what
the soil of the old Volunteer State
can do when you go about it right
The Tennessean and American pre-.
sents to the people of the State tbs
Photographic likeness of these two
young Tennesseans, and congratu.
lates them on their success. These
two boys, Vincent Hamilton,of Wash
inton County, and Rollo M. Cline
of Cumberland County, were among
the contestants in the boys corn
club contest, under the direction OF
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture, at Washington, and they
were chosen from the thousands OF
the contestants as examples for the
others to follow.
These corngrowing contests are
the United States Agricultural De-
partment's method of practical edu-
cation along agricultural lines, and
was the original inception of that
pioneer in agricultural progress,
Seaman A Knapp, in whose memory
the great School of County Life has
been established near Nashville,
These contests are open to all boys
of a given age, and they are direct
ed to apply scientific treatment in
cultivation of soil and crop and
learn in an effective way the mean
ing of modern agriculture, with its
greater yield and greater perfection
of product 1t means a nation full
of real corn growers, and it means
more prosperity for the country and
it's people.
This contest is under regulations
and rules that make the results
practical object lessons for other
boys to follow, and it also shows the
elder farmers just how to make the
soil double its product and it's prof
it's. These practical tests beat mere
school books, and the lessons have
a substantial blessing following.
The contests last year were entered
by boys all over the country, espe-
cially in the South, and the showing
made by these boys of Tennessee
shows what the soil of Tennessee
can be made to do in producing corn
when gone at in the proper way.
The average yield per acre in Ten
nessee in 1918 was less than twenty
five bushels per acre.
Vincent Campbell, of Washington
County, and Rollo NJ. Cline, of Cum
berland County, were the winners
among the boys of Tennessee, and
they produced on each acre more
than 1870 bushels, or more than
twenty-six barrels to the acre, which
sounds like the corn belt of Illinois.
1t has been customary to give the
two winners of the State champion
ship trips trips to Washington, D.
c., but for the winners of 1914 it
has been decided to present the boys
in some leading agri-
cultural colleges. The Department
of Agriculture of Tennessee will
make proper recognition of these
two champion corn growers from
East Tennessee at an early date, as
Governor Rye has long been an adj
yocate of practical education for
boys.
The following is a statement of
how the crop was grown by Rollo NJ
Cline, while young Vincent Camp
bell, now in school at Athens, will
later give the Tennessee boys the
story of how he grew such a Won
lerful yield of corn, and the readers
If The Tennessean and American
will have some interesting facts
about this young corn grower.
HOW I WON LAST YEARS PRIZE.
plowed the ground with a No |
30 Oliver plow aind subsoiled it as
'oon in the spring as 1 could get in
o it. The condition of the soil was
/ little heavier than it ought to
lave been. l applied about 20 tons
# stable manure to the acre, which
vas plowed under into the soil.
about one week later, before plant
ng l disced and cross-disced it, ap-
lying about 250 pounds of acid
and discing it in deep
y and afterwards broadcast $50
'ounds more of acid phosphate, and
arrowing it in with spiketooth
arrow. Cross narrowed the ground
yell Planted May 1, in rows three
eet part, drilling 500 pounds of