Milford chronicle., 1919-01-03
DELAWARE CORN CLUB
BOYS GREW PRIZE CORN


| Twenty-one members were enrolled
this year in the Delaware Boys and
Girls Patriotic Corn Clubs, nineteen
of whom reported on the management
of 19 acres, producing 909.0S bushels
of corn with a total value of $1,23772.
at total cost of S57276, leaving a net
profit of S664.96. Each member pro-
duced on the club acre an average of
4S.7 bushels of corn worth $6514. at
an average cost of S0.64S per bushel,
or a cost of S30.15 per acre, making
net profit of S34.99 on each acre
Not only have these junior farmers
been trying patriotically to increase
the food supply. but they have also
been contesting for the $25 pure bred
pig which the State Board of Agricul-
ture has offered as an achievement
prize to the champion corn club
grower of each county of the Ctate
shelled corn basis. allowing $50 as
normal crib moisture. On basis of
% greatest yield per acre, (2) the
lowest cost of production, go the best !
exhibit, (4) the best written accounk
the following club members have mer- |
ANNA NAN NDAAAAs eAA4AAEf tAAAEAl BA ALEos
l. For New Castle zGauDty-H. Wal !
lace Cook, Newark -
3 For Kent County-G. Lester Lay
er, Hartly.
3. For Sussex County-R Amerd
Cannon. Seaford
The New Castle county prize will
be publicly awarded by n. D. Grubb,
vice president of the State Board of
Agriculture, at the County Farm Bu-
reau meeting at Newark on Thursday
afternoon. January ?. The Kent
county prize will be awarded by Prof.
Wesley Webb secretary of the State
Board Of Agriculture. at Dover, on
January 9th The Sussex county prize =,
viii be awarded by some representa- !
i've OF the State Board of Agriculture
It Georgetown on January Sth.
All cost accounts of the contestants
we're charged against the crop at a
inform price The rent was estimat-
d at $3.50 per acre; the boys work at i,
0 cents per hour, and the work Of
ach horse at II cents per hour Com
lercial fertilizers were charged at =
ost, and charge of 81 per load was !
lade for manure The cost of the !,
arvesting was Offset with the value
the fodder r
How Cook Won 7
Young Cook planted Johnson County t
-hite corn that had tested 96Ts, which al
reduced 6S.46 bushels of corn at a el
)st of SS7.19, making a clear gain of o
1855. The percentage of shelled corn
as S5.9, and the moisture test was o
20. fc
His fertilizer consister of loads W
manure and 200 pounds of phos-
nate. vi
He planted to grains to the hill,
to 16 inches apart in the rows. ga
hich were 31s feet apart. Later the as
'rn was thinned, but not enough, con-
the yield was cut down M
He cultivated the corn each week ds
Id harvested it in October He was W
varded the corn cTdb championship m
ize at the State Fair for New Castle q
unity, and also won the club CON vi
st, the 90 and 10 ear exhibits in open ne
mpetition at the New Castle-Kent mi
'unty Corn Show Cook believes in ha
redity. For three years he has wi
anted seed taken from his prize corn
tic
'Ster Layer Holds Record on Yield co
G. Lester Layer planted johnson
unty white corn that tested 9OGo, in ~ ~
VS. feet inches apart, on soil III,
at had produced a corn crop last n
ar. He used TX loads of manure %
d 400 pounds of 1870 acid phosphate. -
The corn was cultivated five times. as
ep at first but very shallow later. ~
e acre produced 1877 bushels, val a' VI.
at $1O2.S7, at a cost of S33. .43. max "a "a
a net profit of $72.44. The per- NJ
ltage of shelled corn was S2.6. The /.
'isture test showed 21%. W.. W,
Though only eleven years old, Les ~ ~
has been a club member for three 'iiI
hrs. He won a corn club prize at r.,
New Castle-Kent County Corn @ @Cal
ow at Smyrna az an
The Sussex Champion Is
Amerd Cannon planted his acre in cut
and clover sod from ashigh grade Y
ite corn that tested only 8396. This Tue
termination necessitated replant-