DEMONSTRATION WORK IN INCIDENT, STORY AND SONG 



Southern farmer politely arose and thanked Dr. Knapp for 

 his helpful information. 



The First Prize Trip Winners 

 In 1909, four Corn Club Boys took the prize trip to the 

 nation's capital, visited the Department of Agriculture and 

 called upon the Secretary and also upon the President of the 

 United States. They were Ralph Bellwood, of Virginia; 

 Bascomb Usher, of South Carolina ; De Witt Lundy, of 

 Mississippi, and Elmer Halter, of Arkansas. They were all 

 splendid, manly, young fellows and were prototypes of the 

 thousands Avho have taken trips to Washington, to the colleges 

 and to the big fairs and expositions since that time. 



In working out the itinerary, arrangements were made, 

 by correspondence, for the Mississippi boy and the Arkansas 

 boy to meet at Grand Junction, Tenn., and come along to- 

 gether. The Mississippi boy was accompanied by his county 

 superintendent of education. They were due to arrive in 

 Washington after midnight, and the county superintendent 

 and both boys had the name of the hotel where they were 

 to stop. 



A representative of the Department appeared at the 

 hotel early the next morning and asked the clerk if W. H. 

 Smith, of Lexington, Miss., was registered there. The clerk 

 said "No." The next question was: ''How about DeWitt 

 Lundy, of the same place?" The clerk said: "I have no such 

 name." Then Uncle Sam's man became alarmed about the 

 little fellow from Arkansas. In desperation he asked : "How 

 about Elmer Halter, of Conway, Arkansas ? ' ' Just then some- 

 body slapped him on the back and said, "Here I am." "How 

 did you get here?" said the club man. "Oh, I had no 

 trouble," said the little fellow. "When I came out of the 



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