The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-04
IN Harrison County as Shown
BY a Brief Review and the
Outlook is Bright.

Outlook IS Bright.
Is The Boys Corn Club work has
been in operation in West Virginia
now for four years and has won LOT
Itself an important place among the
organizations which stand for agri-
cultural and educational develop
ment.
one of the first and most promin-
emit results obtained, along with the
work in other states, was the demon
Btrating to the world the wonderful
corn growing possibilities OF west
Virginia soils. Until the members
of the corn clubs began to grow the
enormous yields OF 80 bushels and
more of corn to the acre, and to grow
It cheaply, other parts of the state
had not thought of West Virginia
as a corn growing state. So 1t re-
NAMED for the boys between the
ages of ten and eighteen years to
prove that ovr a hundred bushels
Virginia will in few years produce
all the corn needed at home.
The corn clubs have furnished an
opportunity for teaching the boys a
few of the simple fundamental prtn-
ciples of good farm practice. and by
their open mindedness and wiling
ness to try the methods advocated,
k06Y nave dVGTdSGu SALy
sfxty-six bushels of corn per acre, at
cost of 35c per bushels. The aver
age yield for the state has been about
twenty-six bushels per acre during
the same time.
The clubs also furnish an easy and
practical means of connecting the
rural schools with the lives OF the
pupils, and of clinching the lessons
ON agriculture as taught in the school
~ H. JSiT the children Dllt
these principles into practice upon
their contest plats. Whenever the
boy or girl is shown the practical,
economic value of their school work,
they at once become more interest
ed.
Simple Lessons Taught.
AS an adjunct to the corn club work
and for the purpose of teaching them
simple lessons in animal industry,
the potato, the pig and poultry con
Tests have been recently added to the
cInb movement. BY means of these
clubs the boys and girls are taught
the value of feeding their corn on
the farm in order to get double
value, and are taught the important
place of live stock farming In all
successful agriculture.
The pig and poultry work has
further advantage In that children
things, they like animals. and by
getting them into these clubs and
-feaching them how to attend to their
own pigs and chickens, they develop
a tender sympathy and consideration
for animal life, a characteristic that
is Invaluable in their dealings with
their fellow man in after life.
These clubs develop in the child,
self reliance and initiative. dfspo-
sition to take what he has and make
The most of it. Hundreds OF boys
who have gone into these clubs and
learned the value of intelligence ap-
piled to agriculture. have become IN
terested in the farm: have determln-
ed to attend the agricultural college.
and learn more of the science OF tue
soil: and having caught the vision.
are preparing themselves for large
usefulness, either as teacher OF their
fellows in some agricultural high
school, OF as a progressive up to date
farmer in their home communities.
These boys, having gotten into the
spirit of the club work, realizing the
larger purpose of the club as sym
holized by the national emblem-the
four n pin-which stands for the
development of the whole man. en-
ter life with an entirely changed
viewpoint Whether in the school
room. in the commercial field, or up
on their duties with a desire TO pei
of service to their fellow man.
The four HIS stand for the trained
head. the skillfu1 hand. the sympa-
thetic heart and the resistive health.
Four great essentials to efficient man
To Build Up Social Life.
Finally. through the agricultural
clubs. it is hoped to build up a whole
some social life in the country. There
is no phase OF rural life more neg
lected today than the social phase.
Too many farmers forget that they
were ever young, and that there is
a difference between exercise and
recreation. 1t is true the farm boy
gets all the physical exercise he can
stand. but how much real recreation?
Through the club picnics and var
ious club gatherings we hope to add
emphasis to the social side of coun-
try life.
Agricultural clubs for corn, potato.
pig and poultry growing have gotten
along very we'll with the assistance
OF County superintendent Morrison.
They demonstrated at the 1915 state
corn show that undoubtedly the Lost
Creek sections contains the best Sc
Iectors of exhibition corn of any part
OF West Virginia. However, much
more can be accomplished by a