The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1913-08-01
Splendid Opportunity For Some Garard
County Boy To Receive A Free Trip
To The Kentucky State Fair
AT Louisville.


county in the state may get free trip
all expenses paid, to the State Fail
this fall. Fill out the application blank
at the bottom of the circular end mai
to the Secretary at Louisville and enter
the contest.
The Kentucky State Fair Managa
ment and the College of Agriculture
have completed plans for a FARM
BOYS ENCiMPMENT that will give
an opportunity for one boy from each
of the 120 counties of the State to visit
the Kentucky State Fair for a whole
week without expense. The purpose of
this encampment is to extend the
educational advantage of the Fair to
the farms of the State, to stimulate. a
greater interest in the State Fair by
spreading throughout the one hundred
and twenty counties its real worth
through these farm boys.
Attached to this circular will be found
a blank application, which any boy
interested may fill out, mailing to
Secretary ]. L. Dent, before August l,
1913.
The selection of the boys will be made
on competitive examination of answers
by member of the State Board of
and a member of the
Faculty of the Agricultural College.
The applicants should send all answers
so the Secretary of State Fair, who
will forward same to the Executive
Committee for completion. This
Committee will receive all applications,
as setforth above, and mark all answers
submitted to them.
The applicants must be of good moral
character, willing to cooperate in max
ing the encampment a success; be be-
tween the ages of Is and Is years, and
be actual residents and workers upon
the farm. No boy who has ever been
enrolled in any College of Agriculture
in this or any other State will be eligible
to compete (this does not exclude boys
who have attended the Agricultural
Department in High School.)
Each boy will be required to answer
list of questions following:
l. How can the corn crop rof your
county be improved?
2. Why do greater numbers of live
stock usually make more prosperous
farmer?
3. Why are pure bred live stock
better than scrubs?
ANSWER each question in not more
than 100 words.)
All answers must be in the hands OF
the Secretary of the State Fair before
August LIST. The committee will read
and mark them at once and notify the
Secretary of the State Fair of the name
and address Of. the boy standing highest,
which boy will be the one entitled tc
the free trip to the State Fair as
member of the Farm Boys Encamp.
ment from his county, The local com.
mittee will keep a record of the mark.
ings of all the contestants, and the boys
standing second and third in theil
markings will be designated as first and
second alternates; the first to be select
ed in case the winner cannot come to
the Fair, and the second alternate to
be selected in case neither the winner
nor first alternate can come.
The boys selected in the various
counties must plan their trips so as to
be at the Fair Grounds and report to
the Superintendent in charge at the
encampment headquarters on Monday
forenoon. September 18th. Guide with
Farm Boys Encampment" badges
will be stationed in the main waiting
rooms of the Union Station and Seventh
Street Stations to meet the boys. In
case boy fails to find a guide he
should ask policeman or other uniform
ed employee at the station to direct him
where to take street car for the Fair
Grounds. Certificates of appointment
will be mailed to each boy prior to the
time of his leaving home that will entitle
him to free transportation from railroad
station, lodging and meals at the Fair
Grounds. Comfortable quarters will be
selected for the encampment on the
State Fair Grounds. Cots, mattresses
and pillows will be furnished. but each
boy must bring the following.
l. Blankets, sheets and pillow slips.
2. Towels, brush and comb.
2. Necessary clothing to last the weeE
Good warm blankets should be brought
along, as the nights may be cold.
The Fair Association will furnish
each boy with white cap free, which
he can keep as a souvenir of the
encampment. Meals will be furnished
beginning with lunch on Monday, anC
up to and including Saturday.
The boys and camp will be under the
immediate supervision of Prof. T. R
Bryant. Strict discipline will be en-
forced and the conduct of the boy.
carefully looked after, and those moi
wishing to conform to the discipline
and rules of the encampment will b.
asked to return at once to their homes
Should the management find it necessary
to dismiss any boy before the close Of
the week on account of infraction Of
the discipline or rules of the camp, they
will not be liable for his transportation
expense.
As martial remuneration tn the Fair