Williams news., 1916-06-22

you, or even twice as much per acre. you can not afford to refuse to use their methods next season in growing your crops. If your boys can make twice as much money from one acre as you. are you going to be content to go you have been doing and let your children lose confidence in your farming knowledge and ability? Decided ly, you cannot afford It.
 Let's see how the boys getting their record yields Take Jerry Moore of South Carolina, Dewey Hanes of Ohio and Marius Malgren of Vir- ginia-three of the most successful of the thou sands of boys who have been showing present-day farmers how to farm. Study their own accounts of how they produced their crops and you will find that they tested their seed corn, they used the best seed corn that they could get they prepared their seedbeds carefully and thoroughly, that the young plants would have the very best oppor tunites to grow quickly and mature within the limits of their growing seasons.
 They knew that the plants had to be fed, and they used manures and fertilizers literally Thou sands of other boys did the same They wouldn't try to raise such yields without feeding their crops, any more than their parents would try to secure milk from their dairy COWS without feed ing the COWS properly. They cultivate their fields carefully in order to kill the weeds and conserve the moisture for the growing plants. They gave little more time to the acre and they reaped much greater crops results
 Nothing wonderful about all this. You say that these principles have been known and practiced for years. Certainly The boys have made use of principles that have been known for scores of years, but they have not merely accepted the prn- ciples and then gone about their farming opera tons, leaving their knowledge some men do their Sunday clothes and their religion-hung up in closets and forgotten after Sunday is past.
 The boys. didn't go at farming in sipshod, halfway fashion, such many farmers have been doing right along. They were not content to prac- tice only of the factors and disregard the others. They practiced them all together on their acre fields, and the results speak in way that cannot be misunderstood. They didn't dump on some manure and leave the other factors to luck.
 They used manure and fertilized, and they used the best seed and the best methods of preparing the land before the seed was planted and the best tillage methods afterwards The fertilizer they used gave the crops the early start, and the ma turity that makes quality and quantity. and they escaped the soft corn that their parents found in many fields where little or no attention had been given to soil and plantfood management.
 Boys and girls. you have a right to be proud of the work you have done You have a right to expect the cooperation of your parents and of the farmers in your community, and you going to get it this year and in coming years. You have the government back of you, and it is spending thousands of dollars in each state that you can add to the productive wealth of your state mill lions of dollars in added yields of crops that have higher market values. You boys are to be the farmers of the future and you to find great joy and happiness in your work. You girls will some day preside over farm homes that will be happier because you have learned to bake and cook and can. and keep the house neat and tidy and home like. and make farm-ife happier for your family. None of you is too young to begin for before you know 1t you will be out of school. young men ans women. making your own way in life