The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1923-05-17
FARMS ENTERED
IN GREEN CONTEST
ARE IMPROVING
Seventeen Leading Farmers in Game.
Shows Signs of Being Great
StimuIant to More Progressive
Thought. Plots Carefully Chosen.

In Rankin County we have seven
teen Of the leading farmers who
have entered wholeheartedly into
tile spirit of better farming and a
NOR systematic method of keeping
records on the farm by entering
/ the contest for prize money being
/ offered by Mr.. X. ii. Green, jack
son wholesale dealer.
The plans as worked out by Mr..
Green. the agricultural committee
of the County Farm Bureau and
County Agent SIMMONS is for this
contest to extend over IL period Of
/ five years To the end that re-
newed interest might be encouraged
in better agricultural system.
! II was the plan to have at least
! twenty-five contestants the first
! year. but number of those who
had expressed IL desire TO enter
never signed the agreemnt. The
! farmers who have entered the con
test live in representative sections
Of the county and the contest is
being watched colsely by farmers
living nearby and many" of those
will very likely want to participate
next year.
Mr.. Simmons has visited num-
Der of the projects and every one
visited is showing up splendidly;
the five-acre plots have been care
fully selected, drained, prepared,
fertiliZed and planted, and in some
Instances have. been cultivated one
time. Some have corn and peas,
some have cotton, some have oats,
followed with corn and peas or
beans, and some have mixed crops.
This contest is already showing
signs of being one of the most
interesting and greatest stimulants
to more progressive thought along
agricultural lines and to the un-
firing efforts of our County Agent,
O. L. Simmons. is due the credit
of making it Il business proposition
that would appeal to Mr. Green
and the farmers. Every farmer in
terested should see one of these
projects during the year and plan
to enter next year. If you do not
win one of the five cash prizes
you do not lose anything, but only
better your condition; help to create
little pep" in the farming game
Have one. thing on the farm you
would like to show your neighbOr
and the candidate when they come
to see you. You never see a can
didate. you know. that doesn't
claim to have been raised on Il
farm and to have the greatest de-
light in the thought "SOme
day he is going back to the farm"
Mr.. Simmons is visiting these pro-
JectS now as he can get to them;
at the same time he is going to
see the club boys; his enthusiasm
runs over when he comes into his
office after one Of these trips. for
he has had vision of the future
possible farming of Rankin County
when these boys have grown to
manhoOd-sOme of them perhaps
will be farmers and they will love
to tell how they started out with
one acre cooperating with the other
boys of the State and county in
this great movement. These lively
young farmers are going to write
new history into the pages of
Mississippi agriculture if they keep
up the pace they have, set Every
where they have their cotton and
corn up to stand: the land
thoroughly prepared and highly
fertiiZed
The pig club boys have their pigs
and are proud to show them to
you. One of the encouraging things
about this work is the fact that
so many of the parents are backing
the boys up to the limit. They are
side to make record, but giving
him good average land where work
will bring an income; another thing
that is SO encouraging is that the
parents are going TO let the boys
have all they can make on this good
land. They are making partners
of these boys and when the boy
is planning to select lifes work
he is going Ito think more kindly
of the old farm and home.
1t is our greatest hope of the
future agricultural development
Watch these club boys in 1923!
The Average yield lint cotton for
1922 for Rankin County was 10
pounds, if these boys do not make
an average of not less than 800
pounds of lint this year, it will be
caused by an unfavOrable season
and not by n lack of interest and