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Show ij I Juvenile Com Gnwerar JC H g Hi: t'nlird Rtatra govern A" & nicnt U now lit work iiikiii one of Ihe most am I Lliloua and, by the by, LX , ) one of tho most Interest. PT '( lug project! II has evi r V ( ' T undertaken. Il Is noth fit 1 ,llor' "r Brhcmo '"r T;iUx' moving llio "corn bill." Clrv4 llr perhaps It would bo ylil more accurnto to rail It xJJJ a rrusado for extending il. u ii.in hill," for there la no do-Ira do-Ira to Interfere with tho growing of our grcntcst agricultural ampin In Hint broad section of the roimtry horn corn lina lorn been tin' priori-pal priori-pal standby of tho farmer. The to w plnn of the department of acrhul tore for of rou run that la llio brain h f our government machinery that has :hnrgo of Ihla nr activity la altnply In effect to mnkn two blade of grass stow wlioro only one grow before. Althour.h all Ihn world liaa been gasping In astonishment Ihcso many yrara paat at the bumper crops of corn thla country turna out rarli yrnr. the cport of the government aomo lime since came to tlio conclusion Hint Kri.il aa on) Hni national corn ylrld It wna not aa Mr aa II ouitlit to be. Purtlicrinore, tlioy thought they foresaw a time when, with our rapidly growing population, the rorn crop would not ho any too h:g for our own Ainerlran appetite and. of course. If ' thai ranin to paaa, wo would lone n or.' or loss of our furclKii trade, for a vast quaiillly of Yankee corn producta now Hud Ihrlr way to dinner lalilia over lean. On the theory of a stitch In time 1 llio agricultural aharpa proceeded to art bury our thla Impending problem. prob-lem. I'lrat they ci t nliout InereanliiK tlio ylrld of rorn per ncro and latterly Huy bate iiitei-od upon Hie even more Irjiluvmit mission of cxtinillng iho roin growing nnn. Aa our nailers aro moat of tlio corn crop Inn been grovin heretofore In Iho middle I weal- -In alnlea audi aa llllnola, Indiana, Iowa I and Ncbtaska. Hut I he government espcrt acoutliiii around aoon came to the conclusion it that aa good or better corn than America had l ver known could be rulacd In proline quanllly , In the south If only the people aouth of Maaoti mid luton'a line could bo arouacd lo the pos-alblllilea pos-alblllilea lying dormant at their doora. Waking up theae southern furmera to their neglected opporlunltlea la the preaent work of i one of the moat cfllilent organizations In Uncle Ham'a nurlruliurnl eorpa. It wua nothing short Y of an luiplintlon that the expert lilt upon the I. plnn of pioving that their corn "fairy talea" I could come true through the medium of Hie ? farmer boy of the aouth. The lada were enllaled I In tln country wide "deniouatratlon work" and J 4A,liiin of them hnvc lately been illvliiK Ihrlr fir I here ohjcrl Icaaona rllit nt home. What la more, j many of tho fatheta have taken the Iranoiia to k heart nnd after aeelnn wllh their own eyea what j plicnotntnal ylelda can bo made If corn be ctil i tlvaud n Iho "book chnpa" nt the uKrlcuHurul t lepartiuetit pieacribe they have become converta lo Hie new liliaa and have announced tl'nt henceforth hence-forth they will cultivate corn the way their eone have bein doing Mieae pnai few monllta. It will j mean only a fraction more time nnd work and It meana proilurlloti doubled or trebled or quad' l rupli d. ' (if course the government gave ItiriruclhRia to the fc I aa to how lo till the aoil In the moat i edvantniirou manner, but the rnthualaani whleli reauliid In corn barveatH lliut have iuiuIh the whole wr-rld alt up nnd take nollre waa Inspired by couipi tithe coutrala for Ihe wlnnera In wlilrh all Horn, of pilzi-a were iitferod towtifhlp prlzea. vlllnce prima, county prltea, auite prlr.ea. and gooilii"'h knowa what, nil In the way of irophlia culn liuuini; In em h itni lii a "ernni! prlre" In tho fot.u i f a tdKlitai elng trip to Wnthlnvtoii, all exprr.Ki p.ild. for one boy. Of courao, the gov-errimni gov-errimni did not offer lliefe prlzia. I'm le Sum lina no inriiry aviill.iMe for nurh purTiimra. but the i!i aruernt of iii:rli uliure englnei red Iho )' whole lime and got the public aplrlii d ililrena of more ii:iiti n dozen alalia an Inlereiid that ' they I'll up ihe prlzia tne iilloued. lull liluma 1 audi hunkcra mid merrhaiiia and oiv-nulzn ( tlotm m li i. a boiiida of Inido, county iiiprilu- J tendi nis' i f ihir-jitimi. chambcra of ecniinci '.-e, etc., ccniriiiuii d lo the list of prlzea wlih h In ihe grand ten) footed up lo mora than lie. linn TLiv ln.le movement, alike to oilur almllar ninriiin-iu.l rruviidra. hna been under the direr Hon of the illvlalon of farir.era' co-operative dem-onatrii'ion dem-onatrii'ion work of the department of agriculture ' and lie relit n'Hecra of thla Inatltutlin have liroin:! i 1. 1. .mi ivnirniailc flTort on the part of he --.4 1 f i I oi in (rower by orh'anl:'.lii what to. te!W-. 41 w&tm 1 tTrV -rsirSvv o- twn "ooo Al .' J are known na corn v-av D-J yior ,lul'- There are flCf(M(Hl(OMiffOhli If'K' number of ISTtW M-AM? lownahlp eliiha all " over U.e land-lhe loviiahlp being the i.i lulu nl milt of orgunlzntlon nnd there are enmity eliiha In about tut) different count Ira. t'lrculara of Instruction, prepared by Dr. 8. A. Ktiapp, tho government expert, who I the Hni-onion Hni-onion of thla movement, are prepared and anil aeveral tlmea during Ihe year to eadi Individual In-dividual boy who la enrolled In thla work. Hrid aelectlon and the preparntlon of Ihe Boll nrc taken up Aral In theae rourBea of In-atritcilnn In-atritcilnn by mall (supplemented by the advice of the field worker of the department who are continually traveling about to il per vine and give practical Inatrtiiilon.) All the boy who won the blggeat prltea puld very careful attention to the inalmetlona on thla aror and plowed their aerea' from eight to alxteen Inchc deep and thoroughly pulverlrvd their erd bed. lOven more careful advice I given the boya on the very vital aulijert of fcrtllltatlon and nno reason rea-son why so many of these lads have at Ihe first go off gotten better corn crops than their fathers havn over been able to produce with all their experience ex-perience back of tlietn la Hint tho yoiingBtera have none of the contempt of the old foglea for new-fangled Idcns and have been not only willing but eager to maaler a general knowledge of nitrogen, nitro-gen, potuah, phosphorus, etc., as agricultural nlda and the effect of leaves, wood mold, barnyard manure, etc. The whole plan of rompiitlng and comparing yields In IIiIb eoiinlry-wlde corn-growing emu pel I Hon Is dune In Ihe most systematic and hualncsa like il Ml.ner. With awarma of keenly Inlereated boya walihlng each other' crop like hawk there la not much opportunity for deception of any kind, but In addition to thla Inrurunce of publicity pub-licity of mrthoda and ylelda the department of agriculture hna Ha own officer In the field all Ihe while and they rigidly Investigate any bub-pldoiis bub-pldoiis reporla Just as the field workers of the I'tillid Slates census have been probing Into Iho enumeration In tiny town or elly that acemcd to show an undue Increase In population since ihe lust cenma. lie It snld to the credit of the boy coin growers that almost none of them have fallen under ausplcloti on any aeore. In milking up Ihe records of the young rorn growera mid awarding the prltea that are offered tho govi rnineiil ollldala tuke Into ronaldorullon oilier thing Hum the mere crop yield, regardless of com of cultivation and every other factor Inileid. In mulling awards there are considered 1 Idltl'in lo ylild, the eort per bushel, the best leu ear of corn mlmd and Hie written history of Iho imp piepared bv the hoy who raised It. Not nil the boys who won the blg"prlze and were personally congratulated by President Tnfl In the White House at Washington mad" the Inrgesi yields In their Biiiles. Tho economical side was nywnys u.keti linn consideration In giving out the prl.is nnd In apportioning Ihe diplomas of merit which Seen larv Wllnon personally pre-rciitid pre-rciitid to the buys v. ho cnlli d on him at Wnah Inglon. 'Ihe liu.is who have won rank as I'nclo Ki.m's eh.iinploii corn growera In every Instance "made good" ky exhibiting their prlte product at their respective county falls where their neighbor could aeiwlih their own eyea what they iicco.-n-plb-hed by Ihe new method of tilling the Bull. In many counllc the diairlbullon of the county prize for corn growing was mndo a red-letter event this paat autumn and a muny 1.000 to l.C'iO pernors lnivr assembled ut a county scat to st c prises awnrdid to lada who are pointing the say to Increased average of corn production produc-tion In Ihe oulh, and Incidentally lo partial solution of the Increased cost of living. And no ohl tltne farmer can sneer that Ihe ahowlnga mode In Hna Iweiillelli-centiiry corn growing ar spurts of no practical significance. On the contrary con-trary the government officials have applied mod ern bookkeeping methods to the business Bide of the pioponltlon and the reported coats of production produc-tion fan he accepted aa fair actual costs. The li Ids made during Ihe pust sruson by these young corn grower have been truly stoutening stou-tening snd some of I hem are a I most past the belief of farmer who have been gelling an aver age of. say, HI to 40 bushels of corn per acre In choice corn country In the middle west. In one Mibslsslppl county 48 boy averaged H bushels per acre. In one Bouth Carolina county HO boya produced l."ni bushels of corn on 20 acres. In snother county In that same state Ml buys averaged i't bushels per acre. One lad made 1 1. (mil fimn a single acre of rorn. Jerry Moore of Winona, 8. ('., the chnmplon corn grower of the world, got the amsilng ylrld of .': bushels lo Iho acre. Hi eve Henry of lulal-n lulal-n nn carried off tho highest honor for economical farming, producing on hi acre nearly HO bushels at a run of only 13 rents per bushel. Jim Htiine of (leorgla, youngest and smallest of the national prlte winners. I only eleven yeara of age, but he produced 101 bnshela to the acre at a coat of i'. cents per bushel. Next season the scope of Ihe corn growing competition la lo be greatly extended and Ihe government may also strive lo get the country girls of the 1'nlted Htatea Into a slittlnr competition, only, of course, It will not be corn growing but vegetable gardening with eiitinlng and preserving us "aide line." |