. The corn lady; the story of a country teacher's work. ^ Farmers we heard it, we marched out and ranup our school flag. Everyone helped, forall the entries that mothers, fathers, bigbrothers and sisters and hired men made,counted; as well as those the school childrenmade. A hired man from^ one of our farmsshowed the best corn in the hired mens asked him where he learned to know goodcorn, and he said he had learned it readingout of those bulletins Jim brought home fromschool with him. We had a great many things in our ex-hibit: Aprons, cushion covers, buttonholes,hemming
. The corn lady; the story of a country teacher's work. ^ Farmers we heard it, we marched out and ranup our school flag. Everyone helped, forall the entries that mothers, fathers, bigbrothers and sisters and hired men made,counted; as well as those the school childrenmade. A hired man from^ one of our farmsshowed the best corn in the hired mens asked him where he learned to know goodcorn, and he said he had learned it readingout of those bulletins Jim brought home fromschool with him. We had a great many things in our ex-hibit: Aprons, cushion covers, buttonholes,hemming, bread, cookies, cakes, farm devices,model chicken houses, a model countryschoolhouse and grounds, wheat, oats, pota-toes and corn. Florences apron was the best in thecounty, and there were hundreds entered. 46 THE CORN LADY Daddy, can you think how proud and happyher father is? He is fully converted andcant help enough, now. When they foundthat our district had won the trophy, the di-. THE STATE TROPHY rectors gave us a day to attend the was a splendid program, with speak-ers from the State College of Agriculture,who spoke on Good Roads, Crop Rota- THE CORN LADY 47 tions, and What They Can and CannotAccomphsh. A lady from the State Col-lege spoke on Modern Improvements forCountry Homes. It was all very good. And the exhibit—of course, we expectedit to be a grand exhibit; but it surpassed ourgreatest expectations. When we saw the blueribbon on Carls potatoes that he had notplanted until so late that we thought theywould freeze; the blue ribbon, too, on Maxssingle ear with its beautiful straight rows—the best out of one hundred and twenty ears;another prize ribbon floating with the flagon the flagstaff of our model country school-ground; the red ribbon on Floyds handyfarm knots and the honor given to Florencesapron that we were all so proud of, we werejust sure it was the most marvelous exhibitwe had ever even dreamed of. There was a corn house, wh
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