The Mena weekly star., 1913-01-02
Won 10-Team Contest of State aT
 Furnished 6 of 20 Exhibits for
 National Exhibition.
S77O LBS. SEED COTTq GROWN ON ONE ACf
Winners of Premiums for COfm GrOwing-Effort to Be Made 'o Increase Both Number of Cor
 testants and Premiums for 19f

By request, MT. A. k. Wear, cth- ty farm demonstration agent, ahu active in promoting the growtW 4 the Polk County Boys Corn ax Cotton Club, supplies for publiN tion the following statement of iP work by the boys during the Ul7' season:
 An account was given sooe months ago of the awarding ,oi county premiums in the c'rh growing contest, together with the yield per acre made by each roy Following is a report of what ne Polk county boys did in the 1Ie contest:
 In the State Contest.
 The ten boys from each co}hly making the best exhibits in ter respective counties constituted a ten-team to contest for prizes az the state fair. There were ureqi prizes provided for these co iIY teams, and Polk county was : stE which gives the ten boys $50 toDe divided among them. There gre ten state prizes for individual H. ear exhibits, and Polk countyb won one of these. The state az in selecting 20 ten-ear exhibits a state entry for the national exh to be held at Columbia, s. C., L six ten-ear exhibits of Polk cou corn.
 These winnings, with the tn prize on yield in the state, won Robert Connally of Rocky with il bushels to the acre, puts P county easily at the top of the e club work in the state and entii the county to the Trophy Lov Cup.
 These facts of the state fair h not been given out officially as but are reported here as given us by the judges of the corn.
 Took Two Interstate PIaLes.
 One boy, Bonnie Wear, male ty entries at the Arkansas-OkklhomD fair, and won on both entries. He was also given $50 in gold by the Meridian Fertilizer Company as 8 premium for the best acre of corr grown in the state with Meridian fertilizer.
 lt he average yield of corn pel acre for the county had be- T ont hait he average yield made b thes' boys, there would be ample orn 1T the county to supply it's needs anc there would be no necessity of buy ing grain from other states and paying the heavy freight rates and profits that must be paid on these imported feed stuffs.
 Cotton Premiums.
 As there were but few boys ir the cotton growing contest, tlst committee provided but four pre- miums for these boys. These wel,t won:
 First, $40, including $25 cash D, Allen X Baker and $i5 suit II! Thacker Bros; won by Lester May Of Opal, with a total yield of 3,77t pounds seed cotton.
 Second prize, S25 cash by Farmers and Merchants Bank, went to Gregg Purvis with yield of 2,i60 pounds of seed cotton.
 Third prize, $i5 cash by Watkins Hardware Company, went to Ted Wear, with a yield of 755 pounds or Int cotton This boy produced only 1888 pounds of seed cotton but because of it's high per cent of Int scored above two other boys who made 200 pounds more of seec cotton than he.
 Fourth prize, $i0 cash paid by Watkins Hardware Company wenl to William Whittenburg with 8 yield of 7i5 pounds of lint cotton.
 Bertram Anderson produced the same amount of seed cotton as Will liam Whittenberg, but fell shorl three pounds on lint. He received no prize.
 Compare these yields with the av- craze Of the county and we get ar ioea ,of what is being accomplished by these boys.
 Thanks the Business Men.
 m'conclusion wish to thank the business men of Meaa in behalf oi the boys of Polk county for the liberal way in which they have pro- vided premiums for this work Many thanks are also due to the of- iicers of the club, Mir. ". A. Rag land and NIT. w. W. Townsend. to-