Williams news., 1916-06-22

kept on the farms and contented. Now the atti- tude has been changed and the parents as deeply interested the boys and girls themselves, and in many states and sections the parents and children are contesting between themselves in or der to see which grow the bigger crops A notable instance of this shown in Bartholo- new county, Indiana. where two years ago the boys beat the parents by wide margin in the production of corn per acre, but where last year the parents "came back by making their yield more than the acres titled by the boys. This year the boys have put their heads together and have their plans laid to win back the records.
 Rapid as has been the advance of agriculture during the last ten years the future is going be filled with more wonderful revelations, through the work of the boys and girls and the inspiration that their work has been upon the farmers of to- day If in the last ten years farm has been able to produce double it's former crops. the next ten years it will produce four times much per acre with proper soil treatment and cultivation. On the acre of ground that last year yielded 200 bushels of potatoes. 400 and 600 bushels will be raised, because the boys have demonstrated that such yields can be produced. Over in the field where 30 bushels of corn considered good crop-in a state where the average yield was only few bushels more per acre-at least 90 to 100 bushels per will be raised in the future, be- cause such boys as Dewey Hanes of Ohio raised . l53.7 bushels per acre, and the winners in some other states outgrew him
 True education" is the basis for the work that the boys and girls doing. The clubs are the mediums of practical instruction in the common duties of the farm and farm homes. The boys are taught better methods of farming, and the girls are taught better home methods The agricultural colleges and experiment stations finding that the boys and girls better teachers and more practical experimenters because they carrying the entire country with them toward better farm ing and better living on the farm. The "old folks are learning the value of crop rotation, the of fertilizers and manures the need of proper tillage good seed, and the other factors that en- ter into the efficient management of the soil and the farm.
 How the parents help the boys and girls is the question being asked the leaders in the club work by farmers in every section of the United States. Parents and should help by encour- aging them to enter the contests and organized clubs. and allowing the children the time from regular work with farm chores to tend their own plots of ground. The children should feel that they are partners the farms.
 Parents, think what this work means to you be- fore you refuse to help. You don't want your children to have the hardships, the same toll with little to show for the years spent as many of you have had in the past. You don't want your children to have the same discourage ments because of seasons when the crops poor and the market prices were low. You don't want your children leaving the farms and taking up lines of work that are less profitable, heathful and productive of happiness
 You cannot afford to refuse your support and your cooperation during the coming season From a financial reason alone-if for no higher reason you cannot afford to go with the same methods that you have been using in growing your crops and getting only half the yields that you should receive.
 If your boys can raise four times as much corn