62 THE CORN LADY 



a Farmers' Progressive Club was suggested, 

 and a committee appointed to make out the 

 constitution. At a meeting held a week later, 

 the Farmers' Progressive Club was organ- 

 ized with about fifty members. They de- 

 cided, as one feature of their Club, to ob- 

 serve Corn Sunday and Monday at the 

 church. On Saturday the people brought 

 corn and other farm products to the church 

 and arranged them beautifully. On Sun- 

 day, the sermon was on the text: "Whatso- 

 ever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." 

 It was a "corn" sermon and you would have 

 been surprised and delighted, I know, if you 

 could have heard it and all the ways the 

 preacher found to bring into his sermon, 

 practical, homely farm illustrations. 



On Monday afternoon your daughter, 

 who now has her state corn judge's cer- 

 tificate, went over after school and judged 

 the corn for them. I disliked to do it,for 

 I felt as though I didn't know enough about 

 corn from a practical standpoint, but I just 

 thought I couldn't very well refuse when 

 they asked my help. That evening we had 

 a big meeting and talks by the men and 

 boys who had the best corn. They sang their 

 Club Song and were given a talk by the 



