Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1911 — Fine Work by Southern Boys. [ARTICLE]

Fine Work by Southern Boys.

A few years ago the average yield of corn to the acre ip South Caroline was a fraction over eight bushels; last year the crop had grown to an average of 18 and a fraction bushels. This shows growth in Intelligence of culture as well as in quantity, says a writer tn the American Magazine. The cause o$ the increase has been the boys of South Caroline, and in fact of the whole south. Jerry Moore, who in 1910 produced 328 bushels of corn on one acre of land. Is the champion of an army of over 5,000 boys in South Carolina alone enrolled In the Boys’ Corn clubs of the-south. They have not only been learning what can be done on the fanns with a scientific application of fertilizers and a deeper furrowing of the plow, but they haw taught their elders.