Photograph from U. S. Department of Agriculture 



JERRY MOORE, OF FLORENCE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA 



Jerry i-s a twentieth century farmer. South Carolina soil returned him 22834 bushels of corn 



to the acre. 



TEACHING THE YOUNG IDEA HOW TO 



"shoot" GOOD CROPS 



But probably more significant even 

 than the work among the farmers them- 

 selves, has been the work among the 

 boys and girls. Sixty thousand boys and 

 fifty thousand girls were enrolled in club 

 work in the Southern States last year. 

 Many of the boys were organized into 

 clubs to raise pigs and poultry, others 

 into clubs for demonstrating the advan- 

 tage of' four-crop rotation in southern' 

 farming, and still others into clubs for 

 the growing of winter legumes for soil 

 improvement. Girls were taught to make 

 house gardens and to preserve for home 

 use the garden products as well as the 

 waste fruits and vegetables of the entire 

 farm. 



In the north and northwestern States 

 150,000 boys and girls were enrolled, the 

 leading club projects being the growing 

 of corn and potatoes and garden and 

 canning work. 



The success that has followed these 

 activities has been wonderful, demon- 



strating to the farmers that their children 

 can accomplish marvels of which they 

 never dreamed. Ten girls in Mississippi 

 produced 27,850 pounds of tomatoes on 

 ten one-tenth-of-an-acre plots. They 

 were working as a team for a prize given 

 by Kentucky business men. The value 

 of their tomatoes was $1,179, an d the 

 profits on their joint plots — together only 

 one acre in extent — amounted to $868. 



Ten boys in Alabama averaged 171 

 bushels of corn to the acre. The people 

 in their several communities no longer 

 have a contempt for the farming experts 

 of the Department of Agriculture. Here- 

 tofore they have always urged that with 

 the money of Uncle Sam to spend it was 

 but natural that large yields could be 

 gotten, but that the average farmer could 

 not afford to duplicate these methods. 

 The boys and girls who have taken part 

 in these contests have given such an ef- 

 fective answer to these contentions that 

 even the inertia of the indifferent farmer 

 has been overcome. Many other kinds of 

 club work is bein? done. 



