Show I I I BOYS nOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS Ln S DEVELOP CHAMPION FARMERS I II L 4 I f- f I r L I t p I. I r 5 r I L 5 I Fargo N N. D. D Wesley Cooper 15 13 years old of ot Br Sargent San Sar gent county Is 19 champion corn orn Sar-I Sar grower of or North Dakota having raised bushels on ono one acre acro He Is a member of tho the Boys Doys and Girls Agricultural Agricultural tural and Home Rome Economics clubs movement movement move move- ment in which boys and girls of ot this state were enrolled last year ear Approximately 2000 of ot them entered tho state contests at the end of ot tho the season son with crops live stock and home homo economics products to the tho value of or more moro than pian han at a a. profit of or nearly and tho work worle required only a small part of their time Twelve projects uro are covered co In iii tho the annual program which Is under the direction of ot Miss Iss Louise Fitzgerald state te leader of or the tho movement movement Sho She is isa isa a 1 graduate of or tho the North orth Dakota Agricultural Agricultural Agri Agri- cultural college and no a former Coner Red lIed RedCross Cross worker Tho projects h are arc corn potatoes gardens canning calves poultry pIg Pir feeding sow BOW rind and Utter litter Uter sheep bread d. sowing and butter huler Fifty bushels of ot corn per acre Is rc regarded as excellent In the corn belt bell of the te United States Lost Last It year yearth car carth th first si six IX winners Inners in tho the corn cori project averaged 10 1002 bushels per acre Clarence Knudson of ot Manvel produced a trifle ulfo over O sixty one bushels of at po potatoes po- po on ono ono- one eighth I of an acre or at nt atthe atthe the rate rt of ot 46 bushels per acre Miss Mia of Mott rot raised sixty one pure bred bred turkeys from tom two seventy C eggs 1 set set cleared ed 7 1735 1 profit prot and the tho th turkeys were fed fC almost alost exclusively l on cra- cra Development of ot tho the poultry ln in in- ir t 4 p I d h. h I I i t. t i I I d I pr P i 5 OW CHAMPION O by b these boys bos and nd girls s Is 18 paving pay pay- ing leg the way wa- to the elimination of ot the grasshopper menace saving thousands of or dollars In crop damages cs and producinG producing producing pro pro- come a 1 new and largo large laro source of In In- In Crystal t 1 Young Youn of Balta fed led a 0 Short Elt j horn calf so 50 successfully that ho gained pounds a n. day for 00 da days The pure-bred pure cattle sheep and swine Industry Is being strongly stimulated an nn d tho the boys und nd nd girls girin encouraged to remain on the tho farm tarm instead of seek seek- ng nl their fortunes In the tho big big- elt city |