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II. C. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
BOYS’ CORN CLUB PRIZES 
$1,200.00 in Prizes for Southern Boys 
Separate State Contests for the Boys of Georgia, 
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, 
Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, 
Arkansas and Oklahoma in 1913 
The Boys’ Corn Clubs have done a splendid work during the past year in making 
more corn and better corn than was ever made before in most parts of the South, in 
spite of the generally unfavorable weather conditions; further these Boys’ Corn 
Club contests are teaching every year thousands of boys that farm life is not neces- 
sarily drudgery with little or no money reward, but that it can be made a profitable 
and independent business by careful work. In 1912 somewhere near 100,000 South- 
ern boys were in these corn-growing contests and there should be, at least, 200,000 
in 1913. For several years we have been offering prizes for these contests in the 
various Southern States, and in 1913 we repeat the splendid offer which we made 
last year, aggr^ating $1,200.00 in prizes. 
These Boys’ Corn Clubs are organized under the direction of the United States 
Department of Agriculture, and any boys competing for the Hastings’ Prizes must 
be members of a regularly organized Boys’ Club and grow his crop according to 
the rules made by the Department. In competing for Hastings’ Prizes you can 
also compete for any county, congressional district. State or special prize. In 
almost every State there are special State and county prizes open to you. 
If there is a Boys’ Corn Club in your county and you are not already a member, 
join it. If there is no club in your county, write us if you live in any of the States 
named above, and we will send your name and address to the Boys’ Corn Club 
agent in your State and he will organize a club in your county. 
The United States Department of Agriculture is anxious that Boys’ Corn Clubs 
be organized in every county in the Southern States, and so are we and we are co- 
operating fully with the Department in organizing these clubs by offering the 
largest prizes ever offered in the South. • 
Any boy lesb than eighteen years old can join these clubs and compete for these 
prizes of ours. If you join a Boys’ Club in your county you will have all the help 
the United States Department of Agriculture can give you in growing your crop. 
Three Separate Prizes for Each State 
States produce more corn than others, we have these separate State contests so as 
to be perfectly fair. In competing for these prizes you compete with boys in your 
own State only. Georgia boys will compete against Georgia boys only; Alabama 
boys against Alabama boys, and so on through the list of States. 
In each of the States named above, except Georgia, $100.00 in cash prizes will be 
paid: $50.00 first prize, $30.00 second prize and $20.00 third prize. In our home State 
of Georgia w’e have arranged it a little differently. The State College of Agriculture 
of Georgia has a’splendid One-Year Course in Agriculture. This is one of the best 
agricultural educational institutions in this country and a year spent there will be 
of the greatest possible benefit to any boy. To enter the State College of Agricul- 
ture a boy must be 15 years or over. Our first Georgia prize is one year, expenses 
paid by us (.$250.00) at the Agricultural College, Athens, Georgia; $30.00 second 
prize and $20.00 third, prize, cash. 
We want to see, at least, 200,000 boys in these Corn Clubs this year. If you do 
not belong to a club now, join one in your county. If there is none just write us, 
say you want to join one, and we will send your name to the right Department 
agent. 
We have nothing to do with the awarding of prizes, measuring the crop, or any- 
thing to do with deciding who is the winner in your State; these prizes are awarded 
by the State agent of the Department under rules established by the Department, 
which guarantees fair, square treatment to every boy who competes. 
When the Department agent for your State notifies us who the winners are, we 
pay the prizes to the winners. All that H. G. Hastings & Co. asks is that you write 
us, giving your full name, postoflice and State, saying that you wish to compete 
for our prizes. You do not have to buy seed corn of us unless you want to. This 
offer is open to all boys under 18 years of age. 
print herewith the pictures of 3 noted Boy Corn 
Growers of Georgia. Ben Leath, the boy at the top 
is not only the boy champion, but holds the record of more corn on one acre than 
was ever before produced in Georgia, he having made 214 bushels and 40 pounds of 
Hastings’ Prolific Corn on a measured acre. Mance Allison, the second boy. holds a 
record of 173% bushels, and the third, Gordon Lee Hasty, a 13-year-old youngster, 
came through with 126 bushels and 43 pounds. You needn’t be afraid of Leath and 
Allison in the future for they are OA'er 18 and can not compete this year. These 
three boys are all from the 7th Congressional District of Georgia. The Corn Club 
Boys of that district made over 50,000 bushels of corn in one year. 
Improved Golden Dent Corn (Seorgia Gro»n) 
We are not putting Golden Dent on this page as a recommendation for a heavy 
yielder in prize contests, for it is not that kind of a corn. It has just been 
crowded over here for lack of room on the other pages. Our specially grown 
Georgia raised seed of Golden. Dent will please you and make you a sure crop 
for early use. It is the standard yellow variety for planting in the South in 
recent years; a splendid medium early yellow field corn. Large ears, with small 
cob and large grains of deep golden yellow color. A strong grower standing un 
against hot, dry weather remarkably well for a corn of its class. It matures hard 
corn for feeding in 110 to 115 days, the grain being rich in feeding value. Also 
good for roasting ears. The Improved Golden Dent is a valuable yellow corn for 
early plantings in the South. Packet, lO cents; pint, 20 cents; quart, 35 cents; 
postpaid. By express or freight, not prepaid, peck, 65 cents; bushel. $2.25. 
