The Boys’ Corn Club met last Saturday afternoon with Prof. G.W. Smith and received their record books. Now boys, get busy, and let’s make this summer’s work worth something. We are proud of these boys, and we expect to see almost every one of them and look over their acre of corn during the summer, and then when it is all gathered, we are going to take a picture of the winning boy and his corn and print it in The Courier. This in addition to that $50 which we will give to the winner.
We were very sorry that we could not meet with the boys last Saturday, but we were out of town. But we will see you later.
From the front page of the Roxboro Courier, Wednesday, April 14, 1926
Corn Clubs for Boys (and Tomato Clubs for girls) were forerunners of the Agricultural Extension 4-H Clubs. Boys participated by raising an acre of corn on their parents’ land. They followed the rules for seed, fertilization and cultivation. At the end of the growing season, the boys brought in the corn raised on their acre and it was weighed. Actually, this was a method of teaching the boys how to raise corn. Fathers frequently gave their sons the use of an acre with fertile soil and good drainage because they wanted their sons to win. The rules and seed corn given the boys allowed them to follow best practices and sons often outproduced their fathers. It was also an indirect method of teaching these techniques to the fathers. Girls’ Tomato Clubs taught girls to raise and home can tomatoes. Boys and girls learned that hard work paid off.
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