Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-04-08
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Once More the Contest Plans are Up
For Discussion.
Manhattan, March 2O.-In every
county of Kansas, boys are thinking
of the annual corn contests. The
authorities of the state agricultural
college are thinking of the same
thing j. H. Miller, superintendent
of the extension department and the
farmers institutes, has circular in
the printers hands describing the
whole proposition He hopes to get
this into every county in time to
answer all questions
There will be three classes this
year. Glass b will be open to boys
from 10 to Is years old, whether they
have been in the contest heretofore
or not Glass a will be open to boys
from 10 TO q years old, whether in
the contest last year or not. Every
boy should plant one acre of good
Seed-cOrn of his own growing, or from
elsewhere, and be pledged to exhibit
ten ears next fall at the county insti-
tute- 1t is recommended that this
class receive as prizes, free trips to
the stale institute The special
class" will include boys who have at
tended; at any time, a state institute
or other corn-judging school These
boys are to follow all regulations pre-
Scribed for Glass A. One or more
prize winners from this class should
be sent to the state institute. The
complete directions and description
of requirements for all classes will be
found in the circular soon to be is
sued.
The college recommends some yield
contests for the boys this year. For
territory east of the sixth principal
meridian, the minimum yield to en-
able a boy to enter the contest will be
seventy-tive bushels; for the next
three counties west the minimum
yield will be sixty bushels, and for
the remainder of the state, forty five
bushels. All boys able TO meet this
minimum yield will be put on an
''Honor ROLL Prizes are to depend
on the county committee.
To interest boys between II and p
in growing large yields of corn it will
be recommended that county commit
tees open a "Five-Acre Contest 1t
is recommended that the young man
who has the highest yield in five
acre contest be given a cash prize of
$50, to be used toward paying his ex-
short course at the Kansas agriculture
al cOllege-neXt winter.
The contests for 1911 will be under
the general direction of the comfy
farmers institute organizations, ex-
cept where local Institutes choose to
conduct contests. The executive
committees of the Institutes should
meet very soon and decide upon vari-
cites of corn to plant. where they
shall get the seed the extension de-
partment at the college has no seed
corn to Sell-and how and when it
shall be distributed; what other con-
tests they desire to undertake; and
for special work. The county super
intendent of schools should, in most
cases, be asked to take charge of the
corn-cOnteSt membership.
The corn contests, as usual, will
eliminate at the county farmers in
stitute meetings between October Is
and December 20. The extension de-
held at any other time or place. The
contest will be for the best ten ears,
regardless of variety or color. 1t is
also good idea to have a yield con-
test for Glass A and for the special
class.
Boys Corn-Contest Notes
The extension department suggests
four sets of prizes this year; that
every county determine promptly the
number of prizes to be given and the
amount of money to be provided for
Glass B, and then to make plans to
send as many as possible of the win
ners in Glass A to the state institute.
of letting interested and public
spirited men send boy. 1t creates
a closer interest, makes the givers
and the boys partners, in sense, in
future corn growing.
The agricultural college is recon-
mending tive-acre corn contest in
every county this year, particularly
in the eastern part of the state, for
young men between II and D years.
The young man getting the highest
yield is to have $50 on condition that
he attend the farmers short hand
course. When any committee offers
this contest, man from the college
will be sent to help the members
get the funds. Commercial clubs
will be asked to cooperate
Fifty dollars will not pay the ex-
penses of the short-course term, but
will be great help. In all territory
east of the sixth principal meridian
the yield must be seventy bushels an
acre.