The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-12
CLEMENT IS AFTER
BREAD BAKING PRIZE

Minneapolis Tribune: P. E. Clement
of Moorhead. agricultural agent of
Clay county, believes not only that
boys and girls should be trained to be
bread winners but that the bread when
won shall prove to have been worth
the winning Mr.. Clement is one of
those who never can forget the bread
that mother used to make. and hence
he is an ardent advocate and pleader
for good bread.
Clay Heads All.
This explains why he has taken such
interest in promoting the statewide
b~read-baking contest being conducted
by the uniVersity's agricultural extern
sion division. Clay county leads all
the counties of the state in the num-
Der of entrants. Of the forty counties
represented thus far in the contest,
Clay to- s the list with 40 earnest
minded girls who have set out to mas
ter the art Of making dough and max
ing it gooC.
Mr.. Clement is somewhat of a judge
Of good bread himself. knowing that
Minnesota Is the bread and butter
state, he lit out from Nebraska last
December at great speed when offered
the Clay county position and, travel
ing north by east and hitting only the
high places, he never stopped until he
had reached Moorhead, where he at
once located.
Wants 200 to Enter.
Hardly had he met the mayor and
the county commissioners n a few Of
the leading farmers who are not hold
ing office, when he heard Of the uni
Versity's contest. For a man who
knew what good bread was, here was
a real opportunity. Mr.. Clement
grasped it. He would put Clay county
on the map of making it a county Of
good bread makers. He started in en-
listing school girls in the idea and
hasn't eased off yet. He expects to
have 200 at least trying for those
prizes before the time limit or en-
~trants, July 1.
Some men look back upon their
youth and find 1t staked and picketed
and COMMISSIONED with liberal allot-
ments of cake or dOughnuts or apple
pie or cookies. Not so II. E. Clement.
His ideal lunch between meals, about
ten times a day, had consisted of two
thick slices Of bread, the size Of the
loaf. generously spread with yellow
butter from real cream, and ."in be-
tween Of strawberry jam. When he
chaWed into this, it left an irregular
red streak clear around his mouth and
down on his chin. P. E. can close his
eye n see it now. Them were the
days.
The Bread of His Dreams.
The Clay county agricultural leader
we'll knew that Minnesota was the
premier butter state in the whole
world; that is, that it made the premier
butter. He knew also that it grew the
best wheat and manufactured the best
flour on this mundane sphere, Micaw-
berishly speaking. Minnesota straw
berries, too. had a high reputation for
excellence, even as far away as Lin
coin, Neb.
Obviously, the only thing necessary
to insure to the children of Clay coun-
~ now and to come the acme of gas
tronomlc pleasure; nay, more, ecstacy,
that had been his when a boy, vas to
encourage the development of an army
Of bread maEers-mixers and kneaders
and bakers Of bread as is bread, bread
with a crust thatAcrackles and brushes
and yet resists not; bread with a
mealy consistency that waters the
mouth n causes one lovingly tc
~1etcheriZe without knowing it, as il
loath to let a good thing go; bread that
carries the spirit of the open prairie
thresher and the grinding mills; bread
that is the friend Of man, that makes
him keen for the days work after
breakfast and yearn for the evening
meal at it's close; bread, just light
white, toothsome, delicious, stomach
satisfying bread. AS the reader will
note. Mr.. Clement grew quite poetic
over the thought.
Others Alive, Too.
So Clay county is putting in it's best
ticks to make the record showing il
the contest But there are others, ant
there will be more yet. Dougles coun.
ty is second in the list with thirty
eight entrants, and Wabasha is thirc
with thirty-five. However, reports are
that they have merely begun to get
into the game, and a lot of other coun-
ties are going to prove their belief ir
the Importance of educating a com
nonwealth of bread makers by enroll.
ing before the eason Is closed.
T. A. Erickson, rural school special.
list Of the university, who has charge
Of the contest, a y he hopes to see
nearly all Of the eighty six counties
entered before the last day and is
counting on upwards Of 1900 contest.
ants for this year, the first year such
a contest has been offered in Mime.
sofa.
The Pillshury Flour Mills Co. OF
Minneapolis has offered $500 for prizes
Prizes will be given to two classes. the
first composed of all the individual
contestants and the second of clubs
entered as organizations. For each
Class the pixies will be: First. SIS;