Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CHAMPION COHX GHOWEK. William CamPbell, of York, Makes Com for Per Bushel. / ? There's a little slip of a lad living at Tirzah, mere hamlet in York county, South Carolina, whose name is William Campbell, and who is hardly big enough to stand between the plow handles and feel comfortable. Yet he is the champion boy's corn club grower of South Carolina for 1919, according to the report of Prof. L. L. Baker, of Clemson college, supervising agent of boys' corn club work in the state. William campbell produced on a single acre of York county soil last year 97 9-10 bushels of good corn at a cost of 26 cents a bushel. Twenty-six cents a bushel! Think of it. It was not the number of bushels that young William Campbell produced on a single acre that won for him an honor that hundreds of boys over the state of South Carolina strived for and an honor which which William Campbell's children and grand children will talk about with a feeling of pride; but it was the economical cost of producing that corn that brought, him first place. He was able to produce that corn at such a low price per bushel because of the fact that he did the work on that acre himself as required by the rules and regulations governing the contest among the boys over York coun ty and South Carolina and because he worked every minute while he was supposed to be working and he worked intelligently. But suppose I let William Camphell tell just how he did it; and then I'll tell something about the smiling, energetic youngster. "Last year was my first year as a member of one of the boys' corn clubs of the state," the lad said. "My prize acre was the same patch of ground that an elder brother of mine had worked in previous corn club contests. It was in mighty good shape to start with, I will have to Lv";-- admit, since a good cover crop of clover and vetch had been turned under for the past six years. r\J ! ' "My acre of corn was affected very materially by the dry weather last summer and I believe that I would have increased my yield over 100 bushels without any additional cost of production if I had planted the acre about two weeks earlier. "I got a good stand as it was and I worked the crop very fast. In fact I pushed it all that I possibly could after it was planted on June 17. My fodder was never pulled and this would add several bushels to my yield. I used no stable manure and, s' in fact, the only fertilizer I did use was 300 pounds of acid and one sack corn club member of the class of 1919 is all boy. He has a little mischief in his make-up, of course, as all lads of his age have, and he likes to go hunting and fishing and all of that. He might like to play hookey from school, although if he ever did so, K of nitrate of soda and a little mixed fertilizer. But I worked it mighty hard and cultivated it pretty carefully, alhough my father says that another acre patch -which he helped my brother fix for a prize acre was prepared more carefully and much more laboriously than I prepared mine. But I won the prize, you know. I reckon that is about all that I know to tell you about it, except to say that of course, I am mighty glad and proud of the fact that I wron first place in the corn club contest in the county and in the state. I have received ; quite a number of letters from boys and grown-ups over the state congratulating me on my record. I reckon I have received too many of these to answer the mail, and wish that you -would tell them for me that I appreciate their interest very much and thank them each and every one for their kind words of encouragement. I am going into the corn club again this' year if there is a corn club. Of course, I reckon there will be; and I am going to work just as long and just as hard as I did the last vear. I don't know that I can pro duce corn cheaper than 26 cents a bushel this year ox not; but I am going to try it. I am just a little boy, you know, and, of course, I haven't? had much experience, but I spent all my eleven years on my father's farm here, and it strikes m$ that there is good money in growing corn in this section. In fact, I believe that our farmers in the Carolinas would be better off if they gave at least half as much attention to the production .of corn as they do to cotton. "If I can produce corn at 26 cents a bushel?me, just a little boy, now mind you, sir?why can't grown-ups produce it just as cheap? And if they can do that and I know they can if they want to and if they really try, isn't that a lot cheaper than living on this western stuff which a whole lot of our people in the south ship in here and buy to feed our stock? Mind you, sir, I am not saying anything about corn and I believe I know a little about what I am talking. I reckon that is all I have to tell you." William Campbell, the champion, I lie didn't tell his interviewer so. Beneath his smile and the merry twin- 1 kle in his big eyes, however, there is ] an air of seriousness that is more ' striking and pronounced than in the average lad of his age. He is the son of James M. Campbell, better known as "Jim" Campbell, one of the most progressive and successful farmers of the Piedmont section of South Carolina. Mr. Campbell has always been interested in every movement that had as its object the benefit of the agricultural interoctc r*f + Vip ctato anrJ tho forlorn! ftp partment of agriculture and the state department of agriculture never has had a farmer friend in the state more loyal and staunch than the senior Mr. Campbell. When the boys' corn club work was inaugurated in the state one of Mr. Campbell's sons, an (Coitinued on page 7, column 1.) % Just Arrived | X ONE CARLOAD ? | Titehold Shingles | I L. B. FOWLER, \ A Bamberg, S. C. - Best material and workman- I J ship, light running, requires I 1i++1a nrtnraf oimnl a amav tfl |?i VVAW |/vng* 9 DUU^iVf VW ^ handle. Are made in several p sizes and are good, substantial g money-making machines down p to the smallest size. Write for || catolog showing Engines, Boil- I ers and all Saw Mill supplies. ^ m LOMBARD IRON WORKS & S SUPPLY OO. I Augusta, Ga. 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