Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1919-04-26
MD. BOYS RAISE
PICS AND CORN
Boys Club Work Great Success.
Worcester Bows Make Good
Showing and Get Prizes.

ceStcr County IN 1918 did excellent
work. Nincty-thrcc boys enrolled
siXty-thrce of which completed their
course and demonstration, amounting
in value to $226l.99 worth of products
at a cost of Slli0.37 making a total
net. gain OF $ll2l.62. Possibly the
most accurate records on cost produc-
tion of corn. potatoes and pork Sc
cured throughout the [ nited States
during 1918 were secured from the
Boys Club members. This Is cspeci-
ally true in Worcester County. they
having kept strict account in every
particular.
The pure bred pig club work cspcci-
ally made remarkable progress. hav-
ing started last June when the banks
Of Pocomokc financed forty boys to
the extent Of purchasing for them
forty pure bred brood >ows. These
brood sows are now farroWing their
lttcrs. which will mean in = few
weeks that Worcester County will
have hundreds of pure bred hogs
within its bounds and. without doubt.
the county will in the near future be-
come pure bred hog breeding cen
ter. This work has gained in favor
over the entire county and is no lon
ger confined TO the southern section
but is being financed By the banks in
other towns OF the county and has
spread into every section. The boys
of Snow Hill and Berlin will receive
their pigs during the month OF May
and will start in on their club work
for 1919.
The corn club and potato club work
has also increased more than one hun
drcd per cent this year over 1918 and
il is hoped before the season closes
that many more boy, between the
ages OF ten and eighteen years will
send their names. in to the County
Agent for enrolment.
Two thousand. nincty-ninc boys
were enrolled in Maryland in 1918 and
let Us double the number for 1919.
Worcester stood first among all the
counties in pure bred pig club work,
second in potato club work. and TWEEN
ticth in corn club work. Let her stand
first in everything in 1919.
The boys winning prizes and honor
able mention are as follows:
PIG CLUB PROJECT.
State Championship Jas. A. Hada-
way. Kent County.
County Championship-Joscph Coc.
Berlin. Scholarship to Maryland State
College and trip TO Washington dur
ing the first week in June.
Money prizes: 2nd. Reese Cropper,
Berlin. so, 3rd. Clarence ArdiS.
Pocomoke. 50. 18th, Fred Bull. POGO
mokc. SO. 9TH, Brook Bundick. POGO
mokc, $2
Honorable Mention and Money
Prize of 81. 90 William Coffin,
Shovel; Preston Fry, Snow Hill;
Frank Chesscr, Pocomokc; Roy Hall,
Stockton; John Covington. Pocomoke;
Wilson Johnson, Bishopville; Walter
Bromley. Pocomoke; Preston Mason,
Pocomoke; Mackie Ward, Pocomokc;
Obed Mason, Pocomoke; Pierce Ward,
Pocomoke; Robert Ward. Pocomoke;
Marion Johnson, Pocomoke; Randall
Mason. Pocomoke; Walter Berdan.
Girdletrce; John Covington. POGO
moke; Phillip Mason. Pocomoke; Alvin
Sturgis. Stockton; Milton Tarr. POGO
moke; William Carter, Snow Hill;
Earl Tull. Pocomoke; Lester Bunting.
Pocomokc; Milton Pruitt. Pocomokc;
Burnard Powell. Franklin City; Pres
ton Hudson. Girdlctrcc; Richard On
ley. Girdlctrcc; Wilson Tarr, Snow
Hill. Russell Merrill. Pocomoke.
CORN CLUB PROJECT.
State Championship - Arthur l..
Harris. Kent County.
County Championship - VIM. Har-
riS, Scholarship to Maryland state
College and trip to Washington dur
ing the first week in June
Money Prizes-2nd, Charlie Bishop.
Shovel, 81, Bird, Joseph A. Hudson,
Showcll So, ith, Dalton Blades. Snow
Hill. So.
Honorable Mention and Money
Prize of Sl.0O each William u, llick-
man, Snow Hill; Powell Esham, Bcr-
lin; Lester Esham, Berlin.
POTATO CLUB PROJECT.
State Championship--LeRoy Sell
ner. Prince Georges County.
County Championship 49, John Ad-
kins, Girdletrec, Scholarship TO Mary