//. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. 
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BOYS’ CORN CONTEST 
i $1,000.00 In Prizes For The Boys 
i Separate State Contests for the Boys of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mis- 
! sissippi, Louisiana and Texas. Joint State Contests for North 
and South Carolina, Arkansas and Oklahoma 
One of the greatest movements for better farming and better crops in the South in recent years is the work of 
the Boys’ Corn Clubs under the direction of the United States Department of Agriculture. In 1910 some 45,000 boys in 
the South planted one acre of corn each under the directions of the Department. We would like to see 100,000 cr 
more boys in these contests in 1911. For that reason we are offering $1,000.00 in prizes to boys under 18 years old in 
the States named above for 1911 contests. 
We want these contests to be absolutely fair and above suspicion in every way, and for that reason our contests 
will all be held under the rules governing the growing of corn by the Boys’ Corn Clubs, the rules being establis hed by 
the United States Department of Agriculture. In competing for these Hastings’ Prizes, you are not debarred fror.i 
competing for other prizes that may be offered by local merchants, bankers or others. You can compete for any and 
I all prizes with that one acre of corn if you want to. Our only condition is that you work under the rules of the Depar:- 
; ment. The usual way is to organize a Boys’ Corn Club in each county, the organizing being done by an agent of ths 
; Department of Agriculture who will come to your county. If you are in a county where a Boys’ Corn Club is already 
I organized, all you have to do is to join your county club if you are not already, a member. If no Boys’ Corn Club has 
, been organized in your county yet. Just write us, saying that you want to enter our Boys’ Corn Contest and we will 
send on your name to the Department at Washington and they will see that your county is properly organized for a 
i Boys’ Corn Club. We know that the United States Department of Agriculture is anxious to have a Boys' Corn Club in 
I every county in the South. We are, too, and we want to co-operate with the Department in this great work. It’s good 
; for the boys; it’s good for the South. 
I We know that some States are better adapted to corn growing than others, so we have arranged our contests so 
' that the boys will be in competition with boys of their own State only. For instance, Georgia boys will compete 
against boys in Georgia only. Florida boys against Florida boys and so on through the list. 
The contest is divided up as follows: Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Florida will be in one class, 
I and $100.00 Cash Prizes will be paid to boys under 18 years old in each of those States. There will be three prizes 
in each State: $50.00 First Prize; $30.00 Second Prize; $20.00 Third Prize. Boys in North and South Carolina will be 
in a Joint contest of those two States, $100.00 being divided between them; Arkansas and Oklahoma likewise. 
In Georgia, our home State, we have arranged it a little differently. Our First Prize in Georgia will be one year's 
tuition and all expenses paid at the Georgia State College of Agriculture at Athens. This is one of the best educa- 
I tional institutions in the country and a year spent there by any boy will give him of the best there is in agricultural 
education. To be eligible to enter the Georgia State College of Agriculture the boy must be 15 years old or over. Our 
second Georgia Prize is $30.00 in cash; Third Prize, $20.00. 
We want one hundred thousand Southern boys in these Corn Clubs and Contests in 1911. Write us at once for 
full information and rules governing this great corn contest for the boys of the South. It will be a fair, square con¬ 
test held under the rules of the United States Department of Agriculture. This guarantees a “square deal,” and fair 
treatment of every boy who contests. 
GIVE YOUR 60Y AN ACRE CHANCE 
Above is the announcement of the biggest and best boys’ corn growing contest ever started in the South. The 
! reason it is so hard to keep boys on most of the farms is that the boys don’t have a chance to see what they can do by 
: themselves. It has been our observation that when the boy starts in to grow corn on his own acre, nine times out cf 
' ten he beats his father on yield per acre and low cost per bushel. It is due the boy to give him a chance to see wh. t 
he can do on one acre and there are mighty few farms that can’t spare Just one acre for the boy or boys to plant corn on. 
Encourage the boy to do good farming, don’t discourage him. Full information and cultural methods will be sent 
him and it’s up to the farm fathers to give the farm boys an acre chance, and confidentially, there are mighty few 
farmer fathers that don’t learn a whole lot about corn growing, watching their boys tend the acre of corn growing i.i 
' these prize contests. Don’t discourage the boy. Give him all the chances you can. The prize rules do not give the 
advantage for yield per acre regardless of cost. We are trying to teach the boys how to grow big crops at low cosL 
' Guy Collins, an Early county, Georgia boy in a Boys’ Corn Club contest last year made over 70 bushels of corn per 
acre at a cost of 24 cents per bushel in labor and fertilizer. Perhaps your boy can do as well or better. Give him the 
' chance to see what he can do. All you have to do is to allow him the use of one acre on the farm. Give him the 
■ chance if he wants to go into one of these contests. We miss our guess if he don’t show the father something about 
corn growing that is worth while. 
