| Show BOYS IN INTENSIVE FARMING Twelve Thousand Southern Lads Show How Productiveness of Land May Be Increased More Mord than southern boys less than eighteen ye years rs old planted and cultivated an acre of corn each year under the direction of the department of agriculture Persons interested in inthe inthe inthe the experiment in Arkansas Mississippi sippi South Carolina and Virginia offered of offered to pay the expenses of a trip to Washington for the boy in each state who raised the greatest amount of corn on his acre The winning boys will soon soon visit the national cap cap- ital The average yield of corn to the acre in 1909 was a little more than V twenty-five twenty bushels The South Carolina Carolina Caro Caro- lina hina boy who made the best record produced says Youths Youth's Com Corn panion If they should be followed exactly ex ex- ex the yield of corn orn to the acre could easily be doubled In a single year Intensive cultivation is worth while on all crops The average yield o of potatoes to the acre in 1909 was I bushels but the Maine farmers averaged averaged averaged aver aver- aged bushels and some some of the themore themore themore more progressive of pf them dug bushels to th the acre The yield of corn cornand cornand cornand and potatoes depends more upon cultivation and fertilization than upon the soil soU and there is no par part of the United States in which these crops cannot be raised successfully It is beyond doubt that larger crops crop can b be produced from ten acres thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- tilled than from two or even three times ten acres cultivated a athey as they usually are The fact that th the South Carolina prizewinner raised more corn on all one acre than the average average average aver aver- age farmer produces from six tells a astory astory astory story that should not be be lost upon those for whose benefit the experiment ment was made |
