The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-01-13
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Successful Club Boy Attending Uni
Yersity.

successful Club boy Attending Uni
yersity.
1t is possible for a large percent.
age Of the farm boys to attend the
state universities and study agrieul-
ture or other subjects in order tt
better prepare themselves to be farm.
ers, teachers, or for any positions
requiring higher training Club work
is reminding many boys of this and is
inducing them to go to the state in
situations for this purpose.
A specific example may be cited
in the case of Paul Reeves, Of Knox
county, Tenn, who got his first in
SEPARATION to attend college in the
club work. He joined the corn club
in 1916 and the following year pro-
duced 1922 bushels of corn on one
acre. The next year he produced 69.9
bushels and raised a purebred pig.
In 1919 Paul was one Of the 20 boys
in Tennessee to produce over 100
bushels of corn per acre, his exact
yield being 108 bushels. 1t was this
year that he sold through the club
60 bushels of good seed corn, which
considerably increased his earnings
for the years work.
In the spring Of 1919 Paul gradu-
ated at the Farragut High School.
That fall he entered the University
of Tennessee. He is still great be-
lever in club work and believes that
many boys are being induced to 90
to college as a result Of their clubs.
Paul was president of the club in his
community two years and desires
that the boys who are there now COM
nlete their high school ard come to
the university He is doing second
wears work this session and expects
to remain a student until he gradu-
ates.
Survey Shows Children of Farm Ten
arts have Limited Opportunities.
Within the last two years rural
child welfare and country life prob
lens have commanded widespread in
terest For the purpose Of making
study of conditions in Tennessee, a
survey was made in 1920 in IA COM
munities scattered throughout the
state, The survey was made bv
Charles E. Gibbons, representative Of
the National Child Labor Committee,
in cooperation with the Division Of
Extension, University of Tennessee.
A report on the survey was recent
ly. made to the Division of Extension
ard one of the striking points in the
evidence presented is the wide diff
ference in conditions surrounding the
lives Of children whose parents are
farm ow ers and children whose par
ents are tenants. In regard to this
the report has the following to say:
Owners have nearly three times
as large income as tenants, although
families Of each are practically the
same size. Children of farm owners
are not kept out of school to work on
the farm as tenant children are. Ten
ants move about much more, hence
they do not have the comforts and
in their homes that they
might have If their tenure were
longer. Because of the system, ten
ants are forced to borrow at high
rates and are thus restricted
in the manner in which they may
purchase their supplies and dispose of
their crops. They get great deal
less from the farm for their tables
than owners do. Their water supply
Is less protected. Fewer of their
homes have screens and toilets.
Their opportunities for recreation are
more limited. They read less be-
cause they have less to read.
"The opportunity that tenants
have for education. health,
recreation and the enjoyment of
normal childhood is very limited.
TIE evidence shows that many of the
economic factors which enter into
conditions surrounding their lives are
below a minimum standard for decent
living. This ought not to be for any
group of people. According to the
1910 census, tenants comprise little
more than Al of the rural population
# Tennessee. Hence, the problem of
irving tenant children their inherit
ID rights is serious, not only because
# the extremely bad conditions
lnder which they are living, but also
because of the large number in
yolved These children ought to have
better chance than they now have"
One remedy for this, the report
avs, is for the tenant to move less,
IS conditions were found to be much |
letter where The tenants did not
move often.
bitches Save Much Time. |
W. F. Story, Warren county agri-
ultural agent, reports considerable
york in blowing out open bitches
Nth so per cent. nitro-glycerine
ynamite. Demonstrations were held |
a the county recently and were well |
TENDED by the farmers, some of
rhom have since ordered considerable
ynamite for draining fields on their
arms, says Mr.. Story. The demon
trations were a great success in
bat they showed the farmers that
n open ditch can be dug with dyna-
lite at lower cost than it can be
one with a horse and scraper, since
he bitches are blown out much more
uickly with dynamite than the same
umber Of men working with teams
Duld have accomplished it. 1t is
stimated that a crew of six men
IN blow out mile of 4x8-foot ditch
i less than day. The people of
lis county have become so interested
this project that there have been
,veral calls for demonstrations in
itching. Swamps, practically value
IS heretofore, have, by ditching and
raining, been made available for
ops this next year
any Farm Men and Women Attend
Short Course at University.