Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-13
PROSPERITY
TRAIL BLAzED
BY CLUB BOYS
Texas Youths Showing
Oldsters How To
Make Farming Pay;
3 Make Records

COLLEGE STATION, Tex, Jan. IL.
Texas will always be a land of
plenty and Texas farmers won't be
in need OF much relief IL the next
generation Of farmers follows the
lead set by the twenty-three All
Club boys Of Texas who won prize
trips to Chicago this winter on their
crop production, livestock and poul-
try records. Battling with yields
and gains and profits these boys
emerged victorious in a fight for
high honors with more than 1900
other club boys to represent the Lone
Star state at the National Al Club
Congress held in Chicago during the
International Live Stock Exposition.
Officials Of the Extension Service,
A. & N. College Of Texas, announced
that records of these outstanding
young farmers showed the yields Of
cotton to the acre varied from a bale
to more than three bales, a corn club
boy made Isl bushels to the acre,
milo maize member gathered nearly
three tons OF threshed grain off one
acre, a sweet potato cub acre made
10 bushels, a pig club boy made a
net profit Of $ZiV on q litter, a boy
with turkeys cleared $50 from a
start Of eight turkey hens last Feb
ruary, a dairy cow club member
showed a net profit Of S2s6 in less
than a year, and the winner Of the
lone baby beef prize showed q gam
Of 1928.
l54 Bushels Per Acre.
Most noteworthy, because 1t seems
to be the highest corn yield in Texas
in a long time if not the record yielG,
is the production By Paul Robson of
l54 bushels of weighed corn from a
measured acre OF creek bottom land
In Madison county. Three other club
boys in that county made over 100
bushels Of corn to the acre.
Out in FL Paso county at Ysleta u
youthful farmer named Jack Flynt
made 4406 pounds Of seed cotton on
one irrigated acre, previously de-
voted during fourteen years to that
king Of soil builders, alfalfa. Marvin
Kelly, of Minden in Rusk county,
planted his acre in a branch bottom
sodGed with Bermuda grass and came
through with 1856 pounds of lint, and
more than $500 in his pocket.
Jasper county in Southeast Texas
showed the sweet potato champion,
Mack Behannon, Of Magnolia Springs,
toes Melted him $iS7.95. On the
E~w.@L Dl-s~- Gwn-~a Hall - ahn
meantime was growing and harvest
ing 5775 pounds Of white milo maize
from al acre devoted to pure lint
Station ct Lubbock
Pigs Pay Off
In livestock, an unusually good
record was made by w. O. Wright, Of
Lamesa in Dawson county, with a lit
ter of nine pure bred Duroc Jersey
pigs that Melted him $24l. He made
his money 10 get his start by working
in spare time for n nelghbor, sold
SI70 worth of breeding animals dur
ing the ear, won S55 at county fairs
by taking ribbons in every class he
showed in against adult breeders, and
ended the year with 500 worth Of
stock on hand.
Possibly the most unusual achieve
ment was that of Milton Wakefield
OF Midlothian, Ellis county. With aid
from a banker and from the sale Of
his club pigs he bought for 500 N
bred registered Jersey heifer that
dropped a bull calf in April. She
produced so remarkably that he put
her on Register Of Merit test and by
the end of October she had MIXED
$3.50 pounds. yielding ESQ pounds OF
butter fat. From far and near dairy
farmers have come to see this six
gallon cow and bona fide offers Of
$500 have been made for the cow and
calf. The boys net profits were
shown to be $296.
Almost if not cutie as outstanding
was the work Of j. r. Grow, Of Hills
boro, who began a turkey project in
February with eight hens from which
he raised Zoe birds. He sold sl93.61
worth for market purposes and has
on hand seven males and fifty hens
valued at more than $500 according
10 offers received. His net profits
amounted 70 S5i0.63.
Al 1.-The boys sited with the ex-
~ceution Of the corn club champion
who won a Chilean Nitrate of Soda
prize trip. made the Chicago excur-
sion BY virtue or prizes awarded by
the Santa Fe railroad. Armour and
Company's annual award Of q Chi
caco trip TO the outstanding Texas
baby beef club member was won by
Joe Hutton. of Fairy. Hamilton eoun-
tv. who nut 2a4 mounds Of beef onto
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