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Show yjU HOW BOYS ADDED TO OHIO WEALTH Stanley Johnson begins a series of articles "entitled, "Youth Leads the Way," in which he will report many new and wonderful facts about the development in agriculture recently made in this country by boys and girls. A suggestion of the tremendous contribution made by the youth of America is to be found in tho following follow-ing brief extract taken from Mr. Johnson's article: "Twelve hundred boys In the summer sum-mer of 1914 added $20,000,000 to tho producltve wealth of the state of Ohio This was their response to tho call for help. They were tho corn club boys of the Buckeye State. They raised the average yield of corn per acre from 35 bushels to 81. a gain of $20,000,000 a year to the state," says A. P. Sandles. president of the Ohio Agricultural Commission. "I have chosen this instance because be-cause it illustrates the need of help, the awakening, and the way the people peo-ple of Ohio showed their appreciation. The business men of the state went deep Into their pockets and sent the entire twelve hundred boys to Washington, Wash-ington, to New York City, and later gave them a trip to the big Panama show at San Francisco. Young Ar-nott Ar-nott Rose of Lima won the honor of bolng the Boy Champion Corn Grower of Ohio, two "years in succession, raising rais-ing 131 bushels on an acre in 1913, and 153 bushels in 1914. But the Ohio people understood that it was the entire twelve hundred boys who doscrved their gratitude. "There was a real need for this help. The corn crop of Ohio diminished dimin-ished 28.000,000 bushels between 1912 and 1913. This is a very grave loss. Ohio's greater population still lives In tho country and her rural popu lation embraces one twentieth of that l of tho Republic. u jjjr "But Ohio is not alone in this ecc- j jOjy nomic affliction; it is nation-wide. If'ilb And the Young Generation, between J"ir, the ages of ten and eighteen, In an jj l! all-over-the-nation, splendidly organiz- jj od club movement, under the direction jj ijj : of the United States Department of lj m ! Agriculture, is going to pull the coun- . jj j try up and out of Its dilemma." '; I J ! oo i ! |