Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-01-02
SOME BOY GOES 70
STATE FAIR FREE
FROM THIS COUNTY
One Lad From Each District to Be
Sent by State Agricultural
Department.
WILL BE CHOSEN BY LOT.
Will Receive Weeks instruction
in Farming From State Col
lege Teachers.
Have you boy in your family?
How old is he?

Have you boy in your family?
How old is he?
Between IA and 1S years old?
Then there's mighty good chance
of his going to the state fair at North
Yakima next summer for a whole
week at the expense of the state, to
receive instruction in all kinds of
farming from the teachers at the Pull
man State College.
For the state department Of agricul-
trre proposes to send one boy from
each county in the state to the exposi-
tion next summer. in another new de-
parture Of its work for the agricultur-
al interests of the state, and some
Thurston county lad-who, no one now
knows-will be in the crowd. 1t won't
cost him anything to 60 and. so far a.
now announced, all he will have to do
after he gets there is to study and
study hard under the state college in
structors for that week.
Let is be known. too, that this
stunt" is entirely separate and dis
tinct from the Boys and Girls Agri-
cultural and Industrial contests which
were started this last summer and
probably will be repeated during the
coming year. The lad who gets this
chance to attend the state fair may
have to do some little work in prepa-
ration for the weeks valuable instruc-
tion at the fair but 1t will not be hard
and 1t will not be in the nature Of :
contest.
Thurston county's representative
will be chosen some time between Jam
uary 10 and January Is, 90 1t be-
hooves you to send in the name OF
your boy NOW to H. p. Briggs, mas
ter of the Thurston County Pomona
Grange to whom Commissioner J. H.
Perkins Of the state department Of AZ
riculture has delegated the task Of &C.
lecting the boy who will 90 from this
county. Mr.. Briggs Is anxious to get
the names Of all the boys he can, 90
all Of those in the county will have an
equal chance.
Then those names will be written
on slips Of papers and dumped into
hat or q basket or something Of the
kind and the name Of the boy who will
represent Thurston county will be
drawn by lot. perhaps the first, or
fifth or fifteenth name will be the
lucky one-that will not be decided
until just before the drawing takes
place. The luckiest lad In the bunch
will go-that's all there is to the se-
lection part Of 1t and it's why Mr..
Briggs wants to get the names of az
many boys as he can.
This system of selecting the repre-
sentative of each county is being fol-
lowed all over the state. 80 that none
can charge that favoritism has been
shown and so that every lad who has
spunk and ambition enough to send In
his name to the proper authority will
stand an even show with every other
one.
In many counties of the state, as In
this one. the proper authority is the
master Of the County Pomona Grange
and in other counties in which the
Grange Is not represented, the presi-
dent Of the Farmers Union or similar
bodies, because they are the only or
ganizatiOns of farmers through which
such work can be done. That does not
mean. however, that the boys who
want to 60 must be affiliated with any
Of these organizations, for they do not
have to be-any boy is eligible who
wants to 60, just so he is a farmers
boy
When he Is chosen, his name will be
sent to Commissioner Perkins and the
latter's department may have some-
thing for him to do before the fair
opens, but whatever it is, it will be
small in comparison with the honor
the boy will derive from being his
county representative and with the
value of the instruction he will re-
ceive at the state fair as we'll as the
enjoyment of the trip and the visit at
the fair.
And when he gets to the fair, the
instructors of the State College will
teach him about dairying, fruit raising.
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