The Mankato free press., 1913-02-21
Many Prizes For
Boys On the Farm
From Tuesdays Daily.


offered $500 in cash prizes in a boys
and girls acre yield corn growing
contest similar to the one conducted
by the Extension division of the Ag-
ricultural college last year The con-
test will be supervised by the Ex-
tension division.
The money will be raised by ]. w.
Wheeler of ST. Paul, president OF the
Capital Trust company, and chair
man OF the committee on agricul-
tural education of the State Bankers
association. Twin city bankers will
contribute the larger part of the
money, the rest being secured from
country bankers in all parts of the
state. Circular letters will be sent
to all members of the Bankers asso-
citation. nearly 1000 in number, urg-
ing active support for the movement,
especially in the raising of local
prizes in addition to the state prizes.
Other letters will be sent out later
in the season to determine the prog
ress Of the contest in various parts
of the state, and an endeavor will
be made to make the contest the
best ever conducted in the middle
west
The Extension division has pre-
pared the rules for the contest and
letters are being sent out to all
county superintendent in Minnesota
and all school superintendents, urg-
ing them to promote a contest in
their county or locality In a few
weeks pamphlets explaining the con-
test in detail will be sent to the
5000 rural schools of the state, and
country boys and girls everywhere
will be asked to join the movement.
The eighty.siX Putnam and Benson
Lee Agricultural high schools in the
state are all expected to take an ac-
tive interest in the movement. As
a result large enrolment is looked
for. r.
The contest, unlike the statewide
one last year, is to be conducted
with each county as a unit. IN each
county where contest is conducted
it will be supervised by a response
bic committee of three members, con
sisting of the county superintendent
a high school superintendent or aSri.
culturist and some business man OF
banker 1t may be found advisable,
in some instances. to organize Il
committee on different basis. Full
control of the county contest is to
be placed in the hands of this coun-
ty committee, from the beginning to
the end. The rank of the contest
ants is to be determined by the
county committee at the close of the
contest, and full report of the work
must be made to the extension di-
vision at once.
Any boy or girl more than ten
years old and under eighteen, in any
county in the state where a contest
is held, may enter. There is no en-
try fee. 1t is only necessary to
sign the agreement to abide by the
rules of the contest and carry out
as far as possible, the instructions
sent out by the extension division
through the county committee, and
then grow the corn. The agreement
is as follows:
| desire to enter the state Acre
Corn-Growing Contest" l agree tC
abide by the rules of the contest, tC
study all instructions sent out, an(
to send in reports promptly when
called for.
Name ............
Age. 49,. Date of Birthday. .....
Address ........ County. .......
Section. -. Township -. Range. 80.
Are you member of boys club,
.''... .'....... 49,. ......'.....
County superintendents are urget
to take up the work, organize theil
committee, raise funds for prizes ant
promote in every way county con
| test. 1t is suggested that each schoo
| superintendent shall organize a corr
growing club among his students
The reports of the work of these 10
cal contests may then be made t
! the county committee. The count.
committee must directly or indirect
| ly check the yields of each contest
ant and determine the rank of al
contestants. The county committe,
must then report to the extension
division the names and full records
of all contestants. after which tn,
acre plots of the two highest contest
ants will be rechecked and thei
! places in the state contest deter
mined.
! Each contestant must agree to th
! following provisions:
1. He must raise only one acr
of corn, no girl or boy being pei
mitted to raise more than one acr
of corn and pick out the best acr
when harvested.
| 2. The corn may be drilled o
checked any distance in the row, bu
the rows must be three feet eigh
inches apart, three feet six inche
apart or three feet four inches apar
in order to make the demonstratio
acre conform to normal farm praC
tice.
3. The acre plot must be at leas
twelve rows wide and one-half III
width of the row must be figure
outside of the two outside rows.
4. He must do all work require
to grow the crop, unless he is to
young to plow the ground or d
the work preparatory to plowing,
being permissible to secure assis
ance in this particular il full az
count OF all expense Is eHteTeu l.
the cost OF production.
5. He must keep a record of a
operations on blanks sent to tn
county committee for distribution b
the extension division, and mus
send in all reports promptly to tn
county committee. Three reports wi
be necessary, one after the plantin
has been completed, one after GU
tivation has ceased and one afte
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