Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1909-11-04
ENCOURAGES The
YOUNG FARMERS
AN AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION
WORK BEING CARRIED ON BY
IOWA STATE COLLEGE.
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Excellent Premiums Being offered
for Best Corn Samples and Young
sters Are Urged to Attend
Short Course.

The department Of agricultural ex-
tension of the Iowa State college at
Ames, is out with inducements for the
boys and girls of the farming districts
throughout the state to raise corn.
Prizes worth while are being offered
the person raising the best samples
and instruction regarding the manner
of entering the 'junior contest" are
given the youth of the country. To en-
courage all farmers and especially the
young boys and girls in the practical
side of farming as we'll as teaching
domestic science, also grain and stock
Judging to those who should have
such knowledge. are among the chief
reasons for the Junior contest in con-
nection with the regular short courses
at Iowa college from Jan. to Is, 1910,
at Ames.
Junior Premiums.
This Junior contest is to be held in
connection with the regular winter
short course at Iowa State college, at
which from 600 to 800 farmers and
farmers wives from all parts of the
state gather to attend the two weeks
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domestic science. This means much
to Iowa from an educational stand
point.
The junior show and juding contest
is movement to create more interest
in corn growing and agriculture in
general among the young people OF
Iowa This year over 500 boys and
girls have planted special plots of
corn, and not only these but all boys
and girls under eighteen years of age
are invited to show corn at this con-
test. Over $4,000 in premiums are of
fered, including trophies, medals,
scholarships, pure bred poultry $4Q0 in
cash. typewriter, bicycle, Majestic
range, Singer sewing machine, cream
separator and many other useful
articles. The Iowa Homestead, Sue
cessful Farming, Register and Farmer
Wallace's Farmer, Poultry Gazette and
Western Poultry Journal each give q
years subscription to every boy and
girl who exhibits sample of corn al
this contest.
In awarding these premiums the
state is divided into four sections ant
) each section is again divided into three
districts, making total of twelve dis
tricts. This division is made to equal
) ize the advantages of latitude ant
climatic conditions which corn grow
ers in one part of the state may have
over those in another part.
Special Offer.
To interest the young people in boil
corn and pure bred poultry ]. T. PER-,
) of Selma offers a high class pen o
chickens to be won by the boy or gir
: who shows the best ten ear sample o
) corn from Wapello county. Mr.. PER-
!. has had fifteen years experience il
raising pure bred poultry, and now h
: has fine flock of 400 Rose Combe
Brown Leghorns, White Plymout
Rocks, Silver Wyandottes and But
= Orpingtcns. At the Iowa State fail
. in 1908 and 1909 his White Plymout
Rocks won number of premiums. A
. the Big Four fair last year the prem
iums won by his White Plymout
: Rocks were as follows: First and SCI
:, ond Cock; first and second hen
u first and second Cockerel; first an
= second Pullet. He also won prem
= iums on his Brown Leghorns and Blu
II Orpingtons at the same fair. Th
IL chickens which he offers as prize ar
3 the pick of his flock and we'll wort
'e the best efforts Of the boys and girls
= Wapello county.