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ftbV TO GET BETTER CORN - it ages 3. 5..S. 16.:. .11 : ;, I ; - JULJ 1 1 p, if' ) I V ) me Weekly for the Garolinas, Virginia Georgia t and FOmiDED, 1886; OTmElX VoLXXVn. No. 10. SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1912. Weekly : $1 a Year. 10,000 Boys for Our Progr WE want 10,000 Progressive Farmer boys tinder eighteen years of age in The Progressive Farmer's 1912 Corn Club. We want 10, 0M) and we ought to have them. Through The Progressive Farmer alone, over $1,000 worth of prizes for the best yield will be offered: and entering The Progressive Farmer's contest will not prevent any boy from using the same acre in competition for prizes offered by anybody else. In fact we hope every Progressive Farmer boy who can do so, will contest not only for The Progressive Farmer's i $1,000 worth of prizes, but also for the prizes offered by the National-Department of Agricture the State j Departments ' of Agriculture, and other organizations and societies. It costs absolutely nothing : to enter The Pro-, gressive Farmer's contest, i The only requirements " are (1) that some member; of the boy's family must be a subscriber to The Progressive Farmer: (2) .that the boy must have been born after January 1st, 1894, and (3) that a report of the crop must be made to us as shown on page 13 of this issue, , . . Our $1,000 worth of prizes willv. include farm implements and machinery, fertilizers, wagons, Berk shire and Poland China pigs, canning machines cul tivators, plows, seeders, etc, etc. ;Thefe will be' special prizes for each State. Some prizes, will be' awarded for the biggest yields per acre and some for the best showing of profit. Every boy who makes over fifty bushels per acre, whether he wins a prize, or not, will get an attractive button or badge, : with the words, "Over Fifty Bushels Corn Per Acre. A Progressive Farmer Boy Who Got There. " Keep this fact in mind: : if you are entered any other corn contest vou' can enter Th Prn- P 4 S; aw: -BENNIE BEESON, Mo'nticello, Mits. First Prize Winner In The Frogmsive Farmer Corn Contest last year. He made 227 bushels on his acre and says that much of his success was dne to the help he re ceived from The Progressive Farmer. gressive Farmer's contest with the same , acres - You simply i get FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE. QUARTER OP A BILLION DOLLARS FROM BETTER SEED PrJr ta W4 Inferior Seed Now Ckst...Vv;. ...... ...... 5 rit IZATlON OP OOTTON-A Little Study of the Crop's Needs G IVE YOUR CHILDREN GOOD BOOKS A Home Without Good ... Matter is Poor Indeed 15 OW TO FERTILIZE .THE ; OROIIAIID Trees Need Fertilising oim US Qther opa . ; . r. 1 ...... . S3 vim SOILS ARE TOO POOR TO GROW CORN If You Doubt It, qti .nsider h Average Yields ?. . ; . .. ; 4 . . 16 a WE SELL HAY OR FEED IT? A Big Question to Be Som! by Ech Parmer for Himself 18 ,? .;VAYS T0 INCREASE THE YIELD OF CORN Better See6 Wlfii Sl PMti0. Better VtitiYation .v. ....... . . . . ..... 8- p T0 BO WHEN THE STOCK GET SICK Don't Doctor by "Uess " v--v;. . :.-r- , ; .- ' OT HAVE TRAVELING LIBRARIES? How They Would WRY ttIiiJJ!!0''0 "'VvVv.V.',.'.' ... u is t iZ CORN i CROPS ARE SO S11ALI--The Reason Why TnrlJfd Depleted Soils and Poor Panning. , . . . V . . 8 to tir OF COTTONOIAS GONE UP Dont Be Induced Why YoSqJIS Itecent Rise. 17 C vS0? CT? TH5 BHlDS-JIaTe You Any Idea essive Farmer Com Club. a chance at an extra $1,000 worth of prizes without cost. On the other hand, any boy who lives in some community where the people are not wide enough awake to have general corn contests, can enter The Progressive Farmer's contest and compete for his share of our $1,000 worth of prizes. We say $1,000 but we hope to carry the fig ure to.nearly $1,500 possibly $2,000. Now, let us have 10,000 farm boys in one great army right away. As The Progressive Farmer goes into 150,000 farm homes each week, it would take but one from every fifteen homes to carry our en rollment of boys to 10,000 and what an army that would be! The inspiration that the contest would create would remain with these ., 10,000 boys for ever after. As one farm mother wrote us the other day: H am sure that my boy will never again be content to make only 15 or 20 bushels of corn per acre. " Every farmer who has a son eligible to enter .this contest should see that he takes advantage of the op portunity. ( It will encourage self-reliance in the boy. It will interest him in all farm problems. It will set him thinking about the many useful things in which it would otherwise be hard to interest him. It will make him ambitious todo something extraordinarily well which is the basis of success. It may be just the thing that is needed to find the latent ambition in him, and make the difference between an ordinary life and an extraordinarily useful life. In other rords this prize acre may make a man of himv- a successful man. ; ; We do not think that in this Corn Club Contest we are merely helping to make more corn. We are helping make more manhood. The boy's acre will increase the production of your own farm, bui the richest return will be in the good it will do .the boy himself. We repeat that we hope every eligible boy in our great Progres sive Farmer Family will enter the contest and will have the encour agement of his parents. Where the boy himself does not first men tion the matter, we hope his father will look into it and encourage him to enter the contest Where the father is not awake to the im portance of the movement we are confident we can at least appeal to the mother of the boy. Let us have 10,000 wide-awake Southern farm boys in The Pro gressive Farmer's contest Sign the blank herewith, cut it out and mail at once to The Progressive Farmer. p. a State- Jate .1912. Pubs. The Progressive Farmer; Raleigh, N.G "Gentlemen: I wish to enter The Progressive Farmer Boys' Com Contest for 1912. Iwitt cultivate an acre of land, doing all the work myself , except help in breaking and harvesting, and will send you a retort of the cost of crop. I xvitt not be eighteen years old before January 1st, 1913, and a member of my family is a subscriber to The Progressive Farmer. ' , . pay's Name-
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