The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-05-07
Competitive Essays Must Be Sent in
By Every Boy Making
Application
PAPERS MUST BE IN BY JUNE: /
Every comort For the Boys is Being
Prepared by the Committee
in Charge. +s.

| Boys, do you want to go to the
big Minnesota fair and exposition?
Here is your opportunity One
hundred and four farm boys will be
given free trip to the September
fair. Read what the secretary of the
association has to say.
So successful was the Farm Boys
Camp at the Minnesota State Fair.
and exposition of 1912 that the man
agement has determined to make it
an annual feature: The purpose of
this camp is to extend the educa-
tional advantages of, the State Fair
to the farms of the state, and to
stimulate a greater interest in the
fair by spreading throughout the
eighty-stx counties its real worth,
through the boys who annually are
members of the State Fair Camp. A
good, live, wide-awake, enthusiastic
and energetic boy, such as made up
the Camp at the 1912 Fair, is a real
live booster. He is an asset to the
state, his county and his community.
He. will spread the gospel Of better
farming and more and better live
stock
Not only will the management
bring to the fair one boy from each
county, but they have determined to
select two boys from. each of the nine
congressional districts Of the state,
who were members of the 1912
Camp, in addition thereto, these boys
to act as guides and assist Supt Hig-
bic in looking after the welfare of
the new boys: This selection will be
made from among the boys who sub
mitted essays following the last Fair,
as requested. Thus the Camp this
year will be composed of 104 of the
brightest and most intelligent farm
boys in the state.
Selection of The Boys.
The selection of the boys will be
made by a local committee consist
ing of the County Superintendent of
Schools, the Chairman of the Board
of County Commissioners, and one
other selected by these two. This
committee will mark all essays sub
mitted. The applicants must be of
good moral character; willing to CO.
operate in making the encampment
success; be between the ages, of
sixteen and nineteen years, and be
actual residents and workers upon a
farm. No boy who was a member of
the Farm Boys Camp at the 1912
State Fair, or who has ever been
regularly enrolled in any special
school or college of agriculture, in
this or any other state, will be eligi-
BILE to compete. (This does not ex-
clude boys who have attended agri-
cultural departments in High
Schools). MI
Competitive Essays.
Each boy making application, as
set out in this circular, will be re-
quired to write an essay, of not less
than 400 or more than 700 words,
upon one Of the following subjects,
Gtowit: Corn, Cattle, Hogs, Glover,
A,a.1A> 80 kho3, raIo%io ~ 20 rrn
ing in Minnesota.
All essays must be in the hands OF
the local committee before the first
(1st) day Of June. The Committee
will read and mark them at once and
notify the Secretary Of the State Fair
on or before June tenth (10th) Of
the name and address Of the boy
standing highest, which boy will be
the one entitled to the free trip to
the state Fair, as member Of the
Farm Boys Encampment from his
county. The local committe Will
keep a record OF the markings Of all
the contestants and the boys standing
second and third in their markings
will be designated as first and second
Ialternates, the first alternate to be
selected in case the winner cannot
come to the Fair, and the second al
ternate to be selected IN case both
I the winner and first alternate cannot
come. The name or names Of the
lContinoed % nst paSp).