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Show HOW SMALL BOY INCREASES CROP Stanley- Joliuson begins a series of articles cnUtled, "Youth Leads the Way," which records some of the recent wonderful ngrlculturo achievements achieve-ments of boys and girls between the ages of ten and eighteen. Jerry Moore, a fifteen-year-old boy of South Carolina, established a world record for corn growing, wUh the result that an awakened interest in corn growing in the state increased the annual output out-put of South Carolina, from 17,000,000 to 50,000,000 bushels a -year. All of this work has been carried on In boys' and girls' corn clubs and other agricultural clubs, under the direction direc-tion of, the Department of Agriculture. "Jerry raised a little over 228 bushels bush-els of corn, on one acre of land. "His achievement was established in the archives of the Agricultural Department in a way that satisfied the incredulous. But his influence brought a tremendous army of boys in the Southern states to attention, with their hands on the plow. The year following there were over seventy-five seventy-five thousand boys and girls (mdstly boys) enrolled in club activities. Jerry Jer-ry Moore had been 'toted' from Boston Bos-ton to Seattle by various organizations organiza-tions He was the biggest human advertisement ad-vertisement ever let loose. His harrow-was a sacred exhibit at the National Na-tional Corn Show and other kindred gatherings. 'bvery farmer's boj saw a chance, an opportunity that had never before been dreamed of. Up In the Northern North-ern states, where the club movement was not started until 1913, they were envious, because corn does not grow so abundantly up there In a Sunday school In another state, when a boy was asked if he knew about Jeremiah, Jere-miah, he replied he did noL " 'But I know all about Jerry Moore,' he added. The Southern railroads rail-roads used him to attract settlers. Within three years the com crop of South Carolina jumped from 17,000.-000 17,000.-000 bushels a year, to 50,000,000! The corn crop of Mississippi has doubled, and the yield per acre, in every one of the fifteen Southern states, has increased in-creased since Jerry Moore's exploit. ro |