Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1914-05-06
TO sTART CORN
CLUB CONTESTS
IN NORTH
BOYS AND GIRLS HAVE
AN OPPORTUNITY TO
GAIN KNOWLEDGE AND
WIN PRIZES
(From Wednesdays Daily

Boys and girls VINO want 10 KNOW
how TO raise corn and can get the
use of an acre of ground will have
a chance to win some very valua-
BILE prizes through the Corn Club
Contests" that are being instituted
by the University of Arizona. The
Northern Arizona Fair Association
is helping in Northern Arizona.
In Yavapai County, the boys and
girls have a chance to win prizes
of $50, SIS and $40 offered by the
University of Arizona for the best
corn or sorghum grown without ir-
rigation and also, some of them
will have a chance to win similar
prizes for raising corn and sorghum
with irrigation. These prizes are
for the district including Yavapai,
Apache, Coconino, Mohave, Navajo
and ella counties. There are two
sets OF prizes for the southern dis
trict as we'll In addition, there are
two grand prizes of 500 Agricul-
tural scholarships to the University
of Arizona for the best corn grow
ers of the State.
In order to increase the interest
of the boys and girls of Yavapai
county, additional prizes will be
awarded to those who make the
best showing in this county. These
prizes insure double rewards, for
some of the youngsters and a
chance to win something for quite
a number. This step was taken
as result of the activity of R. n.
Fredericks, president of the North
ern Arizona Fair Association. The
merchants of Prescott generally are
interested in the development of
the corn clubs. In the Eastern
States, the boys and girls, by fol-
lowing the instructions of the train
ed men from the Agricultural Col
ieges were able to accomplish things
their fathers thought were impos-
sibie and they grew so much more
corn and 50 much better corn than
their daddies, that the methods of
farming have been very largely
changed for the better.
One of the results of the Boys
and Girls Corn Clubs will be to
establish the fact that Northern
Arizona and Yavapai County is an
agricultural, as we'll as a cattle and
mining country. This alone will
be of enormous value in the in
crease of the possible products of
this section and also in establish
ing a certain value for lands that
are held today as of little worth.
The list of prizes to be distribut-
ed among the growers of the best
corn in Yavapai county, at present
includes the following:
A $40 bank account by the Pres
colt. National Bank.
A No. 9 Planet Jr. Cultivator Gone
horse) value Sill, by the Bashford-
Burmister Co.
A No. 4 Planet Jr Planter, value
Sl4.S0, by the Arizona Mine Supply
Co.
One $40 boys suit by Ed. Block.
Two prizes each of S. worth OF
nursery stock by S. B. Wilkins of
the Capital City Nursery of Salem,
Oregon.
One boys overcoat, value $40 by
Biles-Lockhart Clothing Co.
A prize to be nominated later by
the Saml Hill Hardware Co.
There will probably be several
other prizes contributed before the
contest comes to an end AS ad-
ditional prizes are contributed, an
nouncement will be made and the
Northern Arizona Fair Association
will insure that they are awarded
fairly.
These and the other prizes that
will come in later will be open for
all club members in any part oi
Yavapai county. In Prescott, A.
H. Powers will visit the different
schools and explain the proposition
to the school children and arrange
for the formation OF a club for the
Prescott school district To be ell
igible for membership, children
must be between the ages of 10 and
Is years. The contests are open
for girls as we'll as boys and it is
not necessary that they be attend
ing school at the present time.
Similar clubs will be formed in
as many school districts as possible
throughout the county. The first
requirement is that there must be a.
least five members for each club
As soon as five or more children in
any school district indicate their de-
sire to form club, full informa-
ton will be sent them as to how