Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 191?-19??, 1915-05-20
SOUTH CAN GROW
CORN IN PLENTY
Five Years OF Boys Corn
Club Work Demonstrates
This to World
So TO 90 BUSH
ELS PER ACRE

Five years Of Boys Corn Club work
in North Carolina has demonstrated to
the world the wonderful corn growing
possibilities of the South according to
Mr.. T. E. Browne, director of the work
in the State, who reviews the history
of the activity Of the boys in North
Carolina in corn growing and sees in
this work the future and the near fu-
ture in which the South will be pro-
ducing all the corn it needs.
"One of the first and most promi-
nent results obtained, along with the
work in other Southern States, was
the demonstrating to the world the
wonderful corn growing possibilities
of Southern soils, says Mr.. Browne.
Until the members of the corn clubs
began to grow the enoromous yields OF
200 bushels and more of corn to the
acre, and to grow it cheaply, other
parts of the country had not thought
of the South as a corn section. So il
remained for the boys between the
ages of ten and eighteen years to prove
that the real corn belt of the nation
lies in the South and it is only ques-
ton of a few years now-since we
have become aroused to our possibili-
ties-before the South will be growing
all the corn it needs.
Opportunity to Teach.
'"The corn clubs have furnished an
opportunity for teaching the boys a
few of the simple fundamental prin-
eiples of good farm practice, and by
their open-mindedness and willingness
to try the methods advocated, they
have been averaging from fifty-eight
to sixty-fve bushels of corn per acre,
at a cost of from thirty-five to forty
five cents per bushe1. The average
yield for the State has been about
eighteen bushels per acre during the
same time.
"The Clubs also furnish an easy and
practical means of connecting the ru-
raj schools with the lives of the pu-
pills, and of clinching the lessons on
agriculture as taught in the school
room, by having the children put these
principles inpo practice upon their
contest plats. Whenever the boy or
girl is hown the practical, economic
value of their school work, they at
once become more interested.
Pig and Poultry Clubs.
| "As an adjunct to the Corn Club
work, and for the purpose of teaching
them simple lessons in animal indus
try, the Pig and Poultry Clubs have
been recently added to the Club move
ment. By means of these clubs the
feeding their corn On the farm in Or
der to get double value, and are
taught the important place of live
stock farming in all successful agri-
culture.
/ Develops Self Reliance.
eve find that these clubs develop in
i the child self-reliance and initiative, n
disposition to take what he has and
make the most of it. Hundreds of
boys who have gone into these clubs
applied to agriculture, have become in
Il terested in the farm; have determined
to attend the Agricultural and Me-
chanica1 College, and learn more Of
the science of the soil; and having
caught the vision, are preparing them
selves for large usefulness, either
as teacher of their fellows in some ag-
ricultural High School, or as pro-
gressive, up-to-date farmer in their
home communities.
"These boys, having gotten into the
spirit of the club work. realizing tht
larger purposes of the club as symbo
lized by the national emblem-the -four
FL pin-which stands for the develop
ment of the whole man, enter life witt
an entirely changed viewpoint. Wheth
er in the school room, in the CONNER
cial field, or upon their own farms
they enter upon their duties with
desire to be of service to their fello,
man.
Finally, through the agriculture
clubs, we hope to build up a whole
some social life in the country. Their
is no phase of rural life more neglec
ed today than the social phase. Tc
many farmers forget that they wei
ever yoang, and that there is differens
between exercise and recreation.
is true the farm boy gets all the ply
ical exercise he can stand, but no
much real recreation? Through Il
club picnics and various club gathe
ings we hope to add emphasis to Il