The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-03-30
BOYS CORN CLUB WORK.
Summary of Work for Past Year l,
pared.

Columbia, March 26.-The splen-
did results achieved by the Boys
Corn club work throughout South
Carolina are convincingly shown by
the following summary of the
achievements of last year as prepared
by L. l.. Baker, of Bishopville, head
of the work in this State, and read at
the banquet Friday night, at which
prizes were given to the State and
congressional district winners. The
work in brief for 1915 was:
Total number of boys enrolled, L.
O69; total number of boys reporting
466; total number of bushels of corn
reported in the State, 22,125.15; to-
tai cost, $9,462.92; average cost per
bushel, AZ 1-2 cents; average num-
Der of bushels per acre, 1915 bushels;
per cent. of boys reporting in State,
|48 IL; total wealth added to the
State, s12, 2,662.23.
Not only were the boys engaged
in raising corn, but they got into
the pig club work, another evidence
of the increasing field developing un-
der the tutelage of the Clemson au-
thorities. During last year the pig
club report was as follows:
Boys Enrolled.
Number of boys enrolled in State,
245; number of boys reporting in
State, S8; number Of single hogs
grown and fattened, 80; value Of sim
gle hogs in the beginning, s322.11;
cost of growing single hogs, s420.46;
value of single hogs at time of re-
porting, s1,242; profit on single
hogs, $521.13.
But the boys are not conflnlng
their activities to raising corn and
porkers for market. Several of them
bought brood sows, and this is their
record for last year:
Number of sows used for breeding,
5: value of sows in the beginning,
$3.50; number Of pigs raised from
sows, 28; cost of growing sows and
pigs, $25.OS; value of sows and pigs
at time of reporting, $40; profit on
sows and pigs, s10s.42; total profit
on all hogs, s629.5S.
The total money, profit, return to
the boys in the corn clubs from corn
and hogs last year was s13,291.7S,
thus adding new meaning to pigs,
Peas and Prosperity that slogan
which has for so long been used in
South Carolina. The story OF the
young South Carolina farmers who
are enlisted under the boys corn and
pig clubs banner is gratifyingly
amazing, and it is believed that the
wonderful records already achieved
will be exceeded in this and subse-
quent years.
The story of how Cary McKinzie,
Of Dillon county, raised 164.42 bush
els Of corn on one acre, at a cost OF
only nine cents per bushel, has been
the subject of much favorable. COM
ment around Columbia this morning.
Cary McKinzie is the champion boy
corn grower of the State.
Coker's Message.
Mr.. D. R. Coker, of Hartsyille, who
was present at the banquet last night,
invited the young farmers to visit
Hartsville when the South Carolina
Plant Breeders association meets
there in the near future. MIR. Coker,
who has done so much for the agrl-
cultural interests of the State, es-
pecially through the work of seed Sc
lection and plant breeding, told the
young farmers that he believed they
could get some good points which
would be helpful to them, and he as
sured them that he and the other
people of Hartsville would give them
a cordial welcome.
There were several cash prizes dis
tributed to winners last night, and
Mr.. Coker told the young farmers TO
invest this money and make it earn
something. He suggested that they
might buy some calves and feed them
through the summer and market
them in the fall. Mr.. Coker urged
the young men to be business farm
ers and to learn at this early stage
in life the value of money and how
to handle it in a business way.
One of the most interesting of the
several valuable talks made to the
Young boy farmers was that of Ira b.
Dunlap, of Rock Hill, vice president
of the South Carolina's Bankers as
sociation. Mr.. Dunlap told the young
men that the bankers were very
much interested in them ana the
work which they are doing, and ne