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eighty bushels. The ten-year average in Ohio is about thirty-five or 

 thirty-six, and we have got a whole lot of boys in Ohio who are forty or 

 fifty bushels better than a man, and that is good. 



The next boy is John Robinson, a squire of Pennsylvania. This 

 young man is the champion corn-grower of Old Pennsylvania in the year 

 1913. [Applause.] We learned about his little victory, and we are doing 

 the same thing for the boys and girls in Ohio, and when we learned about 

 this young man, we had him meet our train at Altoona, where we picked 

 him up and he has been with us ever since. He is a manly little fellow, and 

 Pennsylvania ought to be proud of him, because Ohio is. Three years ago 

 he was out in Ohio, one of our boys, going to school there, you know. 

 [Applause.] 



I want you to give the boys and girls the right kind of encouragement, 

 get them inspired with the desire to want more of the knowledge of farming. 

 When we take these three thousand reports, we tabulate them, and put 

 on the outside the boys who tested their seed and get their average per acre ; 

 then we take the boys over here who did not test the seed and get their 

 average per acre, and then we have got the best proof in the world that it 

 pays to test seed corn, and so forth with tillage and fertilization. Don't 

 you know that it is just a splendid thing to have six trains start out of 

 Ohio last Monday, stopping here and there picking up a car load of human- 

 ity. That was a splendid thing. Then, coming to the national capital, 

 and standing at the tomb of Washington. It was the cornfield and kitchen 

 that gave them that honor, and that opportunity, and when I asked the 

 boys to give a vote of thanks to the old farm, you ought to have seen the 

 lot of caps come off and the cheers that went up. It counts. That is 

 what we are doing in Ohio. 



I think I have talked about two minutes longer than your Chairman 

 asked me to talk, but it is something that has got hold of Ohio, and it 

 ought to get a hold of you. Go right back and give encouragement to the 

 boy and girl who is doing the business. Much obliged. 



Mrs. Smith at this point introduced Mr. Pierce, of Maryland, who said 

 that he was a little ashamed of what they had done in Maryland after 

 hearing some of the Ohio people. He explained the different processes of 

 raising corn in Maryland and outlined the excellent results that have been 

 obtained therefrom. 



Mrs. Smith then introduced Mr. Thorn, Director of the Experiment 

 Station, in Ohio, who spoke as follows: 



Mr. Thorn : Mr. Sandles has told you that the average yield of corn 

 in Ohio is 35 and 36 bushels. It was that fifty years ago. It has not 

 increased in that period of time. Our average yield of wheat is 143/^ 

 bushels. Fifty years ago it was 123/2- We have gained two bushels of 

 wheat in half a century, largely owing to the increased use of commercial 



