The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1905-04-21
WILL GROW POTATOES
Special Prizes Offered for the
Best Crop Raised.
organization viii be known as tbe
Burbank Club of whitman
County
Colfax, Wash. April 18th 1eO5

Colfax, Wash. April 18th. 1905.
10 the Teachers:-This proposition
was suggested by Superintendent !. l..
Dumas Of the Pullman public schools
and he should have the earnest co. oDpra.
tlon OF every teacher in the county
ieel that every boy and girl that can
contrOl square rod of soil shonId no
urged to enter the contest, not merely
tor the prize, but for the ioy that will
come, through the exercise OF the mind
and body in the effort to produce the
oest lot OF potatoes. feel sure that
much good will come from such a nlen
ana suggest that the teacher or parent
nave the child keep record of the
effort as follows:
l; Position of tract; upland, low
land, hillside, etc?
2. Soil; how prepared? as to blowing
narrowing, etc.
3. Fertilizer used?
4. Variety OF potato used?
.. Quantity used?
2. Potato cut or whole?
Z. Date of planting?
8. Date of digging?
.. II irrigated, how often?
~ Number times cultivated and how,
II, Quantity produced?
Inc following rules have been adopted
governing the contest:
1hls organization shall be known AZ. the
burbank Club Of Whitman county.
Inc OBJECTS or the club shall be to awaken
an interest IN and spread information about
Ihe products OF the farm, orchard and garden
Inc county superintendent of schools is by
Virtue OF his office, dire tor Of the club
ry IsaIj IN . H.. ~
county enrolled IN grade below the High
School may become member by notifying
the county superintendent
The work outlined for the club IN 1905 is a
potato growing contest to be governed by the
rules.
1st All work connected with the growing
OF the potatoes except blowing, shall be done
by the pupil.
End: Plots Of ground used shall be in the
form of square, IL! feet on a side.
3rd: There are no restrictions as to variety
OF seed, time of planting, or digging,
4th: Pupils may fertilize or irrigate if they
see hit.
9th: The chairman of the board Of direct
ors or some one designated by him shall act
as judge in the respective districts, measure
the ground an oversee the digging and weigh
ing of the potatoes.
9th: The pupil who secures the largest
yield Of marketable potatoes on his plot shall
be adjudged the winner
1t is suggested the te cher or some school
officer of each district organize local contest
tfering suitable prizes for the best yield in
their respective districts subject to the above
rules.
The following prizes are offered in the
county conte {:
Firs prize: A trip to the Lewis & Clark
fair to the pupil producing the largest yield
BY +. L. Conan of Colfax.
Second piize: Library Of nine books on
agricultural subjects, to the rural district
whose pupils make the best exhibit at the
Whitman county fair. By Judge S. j, Chad
wick of Colfax.
Third prize: A gold watch, suitably en-
graved, $1,000 in cash to the teacher of a
rural district who awakens the greatest inter
est in the subject. This interest to be de-
termined by the highest per centage of CON
testants; based upon the &C ool census of 1908.
Prize guaranteed by Supt. Showater