Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-02-13
Boys and Girls Contest
for 1909.

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cultural College announces it's.
plan for the contest for the boys
and girls for the coming year.
Unless the Legislature appoints
a commission to look after this
work it will be conducted by the
College. The Institute Officers
Conference voted on the follow
ing plan for the year:
1. For boys contest, three
classes -(B) boys 10 to 16 years
of age; (A) boys Is to 21 years of
age; (SpeciaD boys who have at
tended one or more sessions of
the State Farmers Institute. or
who have had elsewhere any
special drill in corn Judging
Boys of b class to plant either
one or two quarts of corn (at OPP
tion of county committee;) the
com mmittee to furnish the corn
free or at ten cents per quart;
prizes next fall to be cash or mer-
chandise. Boys of both the A and
Special classes to plant twelve
ears of well-bred corn of their
own raising,if they have it; if not,
to be furnished by the committee
at cost or at not to exceed fifty
cents for the twelve ears. Boys
can secure their seed elsewhere
if they choose, although urged to
take one of the varieties recon-
mended by the Kansas Corn
Breeders Association. However
boy Will be commended for TAX
ing twelve ears of any yielding
corn, although unnamed, and
starting in to breed up. The
boys of the A class will compete
at the institute next fail only with
A boys, and boys of the Special
class will compete only with boys
of that class. These boys are
urged to plant their own best
twelve ears of corn instead Of
changing. The prizes for both
the A and Special classes will be
trips to the State Institute. ,"
The entry at the local institute
will be ten ears of corn.
?. Contests are also recon-
mended for the boys in potatoes
and with poultry. Particulars
will be sent out in detail in few
weeks for the contests In brief,
the poultry contest will be with
not to exceed two breeds of poul-
try, leach boy or girl taking fifteen
eggs from pure breed and show
ing at the institute next fall the
best trio, best pulet, best cockrel
from this setting.
Contest for the girls under six
teen years of age committees
may make this age seventeen or
have two classes (B) 10 to IA and
(A) IA to 49, best loaf of bread,
contestant to bake at least fifty
loaves between May first and
September /, 1909; 9;best pie (apple,
peach. cherry, ,pumpkin.) the girl
to make at least twenty pies be-
tween above dates; best three
cans of fruit, and to have canned
at least twenty cans of fruit be-
tween the above dates; best sam
pie of plain mending; best plain
apron; best calico dress; best
sample of darning. The prizes
for these contests for A class to
be trips to the State Institute
and for B class, cash or merchan-
disc.
Committees are asked to ar
range, if possible, for small prizes |
for best flower beds, and plot to |
be 5x6 IL feet. This will probab
~ have to be by townships with
a local Judging committee.
Committees are also urged to |
arrange for garden and potato
plot contests, the former to be /
feet and the latter 5Ox5O, |
the prize to be awarded to the
boy or girl producing the great
est number of vegetables and the |
greatest number of pounds of 1
potatoes. Institute committees |
may well make two classes, one
for town and city plots and the
other for farm plots, the former /
to be turned over to the town or /
city committees. /
Institute committees will do (
well to ask at once the co-opera- /
tion of the count superintendent /
of schools in reaching the boys |
and girls of the county. These
officers are anxious and willing to
help, and their cooperation
be asked for at once.
Further suggestions will be
given in the pamphlet to be issu-
ed in a few weeks. Address all !
correspondence to J. II. MILLER,
Manhattan, Kan. |
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