The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-12-26
FARMER BOYS WIN
PRIZES IN AGRICULTURE W0RK-PRO-
SPECTS FOR CLUB WORK NOT BRIGHT
FOR THE COMING YEAR.

The third year of boys Agricultur-
al Clubs in Carroll county is pass
ed and the lucky boys will have their
checks for Christmas. Owing to the
fact no state money was given for
club work this year as in former
years, the prizes are smaller this
year, but the prize is not the aim
it is the knowledge gained by doing
and practicing the best known meth
DDS of producing their crop or pig as
it may be. The Advisory Council put
the Boys Clubs on the County Exhibit
prize list this year. lit is hoped in
the future the public will realize the
Importance of the club work and Of
fer prizes which will help boost the
work. First prize $40, second $S and
third Sc.
Carroll Duttera of the Taneytown
club won first place in the Pig Con-
test. His pig gained 270 pounds in
lS4 days at a cost of seven cents per
pound. Truman Klein of Union Bridge
Club gained 273 and one-half pounds,
at a cost of ten cents per pound. Lloyd
w. Baker, Of Mt. Airy Club, was third.
His pig gained 245 pounds in 13& days,
at a cost of eight cents. The average
cost per opund by all the boys was
STAG per opund against $.121 last
year. Last year the boys gained
$2O4.4O while this year The profit for
all the boys was only SAT 81. r'he to-
tai amount lost by some OF the bcys
was $46.84. This will give some OF
! thefarmers a, shock. If they would
only keep few records themselves
they could have some grounds to
kick on low prices for farm pro-
duceI.
J Clarence B. Myers, of Bachman's
Valley was the champion corn rails
er of the county this year. He pro-
duced 112 bushels of dry IA per cent
moisture) shelled corn on a measured
acre. Variety, Johnson County White
! He also took first place in the Boys
EXhibitS at the Armory. His brother
John d. Myers, was second with 941
bushels dry shelled corn, Stanley
BoWersox, of Silver Run, of the Myers
District Club, was third with 93.2
The average cost per busheI of shell
ed corn was fifty-eight cents.
In the potato club boy is required
! to raise one-eight acre of potatoes
The prize was won by Irwin Flicking.
er, Union Mills District Club, with q
score of .901. He produced SO bush.
els at a cost of BIT 28 bushels at .
tels at a cost of .317. Howard A. Bank.
ard of the same place had a score Of
So and produced SO bushels at 6
cost Of .312. Maurice Wolfe, of Man,
chester Club, produced 29 bushels
with a score of IS.
The poultry Club Boys did very
we'll with their poultry. JOSEPH
Flishman of Union Mills, was first
Chas. Reid, of New Windsor, was sec
ond, and Joseph Howe of New Wind
sor, third. The poultry work con.
sisted of Matching three settings
raising the chicks and keeping re-
cords Of the work. The prize was
So for first, So for second and 81 fol
\ third.
| The prospects for the club work
for the coming year are not very
bright. The work will be individual
work except in schools having an ag.
ricultural course, where the work will
! be carried on by the Instructor OF
agricultural cooperating with the
County Agent. Any boy between the
ages of ten and eighteen can be q
member. He will be visited from time
to time by the County Agent. He can
enter one or all of the following
projects: Fat Pig, Breeding Pure
Bred Pigs, 1 acre of corn, 1-S acre
of potatoes, Pure Bred Poultry, Rab-
bit Club, 1 acre1 of Sweet Corn. The
two last projects are new but it was
thought wise to add them to the list
as the one is getting very popular, and
the latter is one of the most important
cash crops in the county A strict
account of the time and cost of pro-
ductiOn, a short history are the re-
quirements at the end of the year
Any boy wishing to carry on one
or more of these projects and be a
member Of the Boys Club of Carroll
County may do so by sending a post
al to the County Agent Fuller and he
will send you literature and help you
in the work