Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1917-01-11
SHOULD ENCOURAGE
FARM ACCOUNTS
TRAINING COUNTRY BOYS IN &C
cURATE BUSINESS METHODS
DESIRABLE.
DEM 0uSTRATI0N WORK
Has Proven Most Successful In Do.
termlning What Lines OF Farm
lnp Are the Most Profit.
able

College Park, Nd, Jan. I'm the
experience of the Agricultural Exten'
sion Service no part Of demonstration
work pays better than Its encourage
ment of the keeping Of farm accounts
and crop records. No one OF the cor
respondence courses II offers Is more
valuable than the one devoted to this
phase Of farm business. Especially In
its various kinds of boys club work
this kind of education is proving the
most useful of all. Show the boy or
the man where he is making money at
farming and you have taught him the
lesson he needs and appreciates the
most. No country schools in Maryland
are doing more to really educate their
children than those in which the teach
err is fitting arithmetic to the economies
of the farm, and home. No better
club work is to be found than in those
communities where the coming farm.
ers are taught that no crop is worth
growing unless it is in some way
profitable one. The demonstration OF
how to make something on the farm
pay and see the profits take the form
of a bank account Is the first great
step toward making the boy feel that
his future should be in his own neigh.
borhood and in some branch of farm.
ing.
As valuable as such lessons are to
the country boy, they are of fully equal
benefit to the adult farmer who is en-
gagged in the important business OF
making a living. Whether 1t Is rec
ord he has kept OF his tomato crop or
his herd Of cows or his wife's poultry
flock, he is a better farmer and wiser
business man for 1t.
The type of work being carried along
this line by the county demonstration
agents is most important. An excel
lent example is found in the annual re-
port of County Agent E. P. Walls, Of
Talbot, on work In corn. OF one OF
his demonstrators he says, "A. B.
Highley, of Trappe. planted one and
'stration methods. This land was in
corn in 1915. Previous to that time, II
had been in pasture for 20 years. Rye
was sown in the fall Of 1915 and pas.
tured the spring following. 1t was al
lowed to grow up after pasturing and
after being disced each way was p!ow.
ed s inches deep on May 31st and 200
pounds of ground limestone applied.
1t was planted on June 3rd In rows 3
feet 6 inches apart and thinned to
stalks. The cultivation was frequent
and shallow all through the summer.
Boone County White seed corn was
used the plot giving yield Of 1870
bushels Of shelled corn with total
value of 1898. The total cost Of grow
ing the crop was $26.2s, giving net
income Of $11172 or profit per acre
OF $69S3" How many farmers know
what even one acre Of corn cost them
last year? On the other hand there
are at least 400 country boys in Mary
land who know as a result Of their ex-
rerience in club work last year. How
about their fathers and their older
brothers and their neighbors across
the way? Make farming a real bust
ness IL the message OF State College
Of Agriculture. Find out what methods
and what crops pay is what it urges
Mr.. Average Farmer to do. He owes
II to his community to enroll with his
County Demonstration Agent as
demonstration Of the kind Of farming
that pays.