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Identifier: storyofcornwestw01broo (find matches)
Title: The story of corn and the westward migration
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Brooks, Eugene Clyde, 1871-
Subjects: Corn
Publisher: Chicago : Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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th was having each boy cultivate anacre of land at home under his direction. Theremarkable showing made by these boys gave Dr.Knapp an idea, and during the next year corn clubswere organized in several counties of Mississippi.The first efforts to enlist the boys of the publicschools were so successful that in 1909 Dr. Knappbegan a systematic effort to organize a few countiesin every southern state. During that year 10,543boys were enrolled. In the next year nearly fiftythousand boys joined the clubs. One South Carolina boy, Jerry Moore, followingDr. Knapps instructions, astounded not only theSouth but the nation and even the world by hismarvelous record. He produced 228! bushels ofcorn on one acre, and this was in a state whoseaverage yield to the acre in 1880 had been onlyten bushels, although the average for the UnitedStates was twenty-eight bushels in 1880 and twenty- 26o The Story of Corn seven in 1910. When these two amounts, 228!and ten, are placed side by side, and it is really
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From Bulletin A-75. U. S. Dept. Agr. Jerry Moore^ the fifteen-year-old South Carolina hoy who in iQio set the worlds record by raising 228^ bushels of corn on one acre understood that they represent the productionof two acres of ordinary land in the same statebefore and after Dr. Knapps magic touch, it iseasy to see what his work in the South meant.This was perhaps the greatest yield of foodstuffto the acre that the world had ever seen. Manyfarmers of the South did not produce that amounton twenty-five acres of land. Through the boys*corn clubs the South learned the astounding truththat one acre of land, well cultivated under favorableconditions, will yield corn enough both for the useof a whole family for an entire year and for the feedof a horse, cows, hogs, and poultry. Farmers Demonstration Work 261 In 1911, when Dr. Knapp died, the corn clubs hadextended into every southern state and many otherstates of the Union. In that year sixty thousand boys of the Southentered the contest c

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