The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-11-12
COOPERATION TO BRING AID
Scholarships in the University of Wis.
consin and Cash Prizes Are Offered
for Contestants in the Corn Growing
Contest in Kenosha County.
Kenosha, Wis, Nov. 5, 1914.

Kenosha, Wis, Nov. 5, 1914.
Cooperation is fast taking the place,
of competition. Cooperation between
home and school, between employer
and employee, between producer and
consumer, between farmer and mer.
chant, between agricultural community
and city community-these are the or
der OF the day. And today is better
day, because of this cooperation; for
it recognizes the inter-dependence of
all the various elements of society, and
the mutual obligations that should bind
all together for the common benefit.
| The state of Wisconsin through the
College of Agriculture of its great uni
versity, came forward last spring with
an offer of pure bred seed corn. Supt.
j. j. Kerwin got the proposition before
every boy and girl attending the rural
schools of Kenosha county. The S. &
j. Gottlieb Company put an interest.
ing incentive into the movement by of
fering $4,000 in prizes to those who
would engage in the corn growing con.
| test.
The seed was distributed, the corn
planted and cultivated according to
rules laid down by the agricultural de-
partment, and this fall nearly one hun
dred boys and girls have sent into Ke-
nosha the best samples of the product
| of their labor. The S. & j. Gottheb
Company again assisted by offering
their store windows as place of ex-
hibit.
Who will get the three scholarships
which will entitle the fortunate wins
ners to admission at the winter insti-
tute in the College of Agriculture at
Madison7 These scholarships include
free transportation, free board and in
structions for a week. The question
next in interest is who will get the
fourth prize of $500, the fifth prize of.
$500, the sixth prize eff $500, the sew
enth prize Of $500.
All these interesting questions are to
be settled on November 18th, by Prof.
R. A. Morse, head of the department
of agronomy of the University of Wis
consin. After these prizes are assigned,
ninety-six other boys and girls who
have entered the contest will find at
least dollar prize awaiting them.
What is it all for7 For the good Of
Wisconsin; for the good of Kenosha
county as part of Wisconsin; for the
good of the city of Kenosha, whose
prosperity is closely bound up with thai
Of the county and the state.
Is it as important as thati Look at
these figures and judge: The actual
yield of the corn fields of Wisconsin in
1912 was $685. 900 bu., in 1913 it was
1925, 900 Blu. What the yield for 1914
will be remains to be seen, but Prof.
Moore estimates its value at $75,000,I
900 inclusive of the fodder product.
Then consider the fact that the yield
per acre of pedigree corn is "a bu and
of common corn with the same care is
so bu., and you must conclude that edu-
cation in regard to seed selections has
something to do with the increase
cited
Then compare the yield per acre in
Wisconsin with 23 bu., the average
yield throughout the United States, and
you must conclude that something's
doing' in Wisconsin
This corn contest is part of that
something"
Then praise be to the boys and girls
of the rural schools for helping on a
movement that has such economic sig
nifcancel and praise be to all those
who encourage the boys and girls, and
make it possible for them to do this
important piece of educational work.
When Kenosha county gets train
ing school for its rural teachers, which
the children of this county deserve as,
much as the children Of those twenty
eight other counties that already have
cational work will be extended to ev-
cry district and every farm in the
such schools, then this important edu.
county.
The total average annual cost of SUPP
porting these twenty eight schools is
about $4,000; and of this amount every
county gets back from the state $4,000,
if it employs two teachers, and $500 if
it employs three teachers.
Can Kenosha county afford $4,000 a.
year to help its boys and girls to bet
ter educational advantagesf This is
question of as great concern to the city
as to the county, for we are all bound
together by a common interest. Cos
operation is the word.
The question had better be put, can
Kenosha county afford not to carry out
this measured
The best is none too good for the
children, who have shown the stuff
they'r made of, by their earnestness
in this corn growers contest.
Mary d. Bradford.