Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-04-21
NTER-coUNTY CONTEST;
LANE AND MARION

Plans for an inter-eounty fruit and
vegetable canning contest between
sixty Lane and Marion county girls at
the Oregon state fair in September
were completed in conference be-
tween +. w. RAIDER and Luther j..
Chfp.in, county agricultlltists Of
Lane and Marion ccdnty respectively,
alys the Eugene Guard The contests
are arranged for the purpose of intro
ducing modern methods of steam
pressure canning in the rural homes Of
the state. 1t is one attempt to aid
the rural housewife with scientific
kitchen machinery, and the proposal Of
the two farm experts is to demonstrate
canning machinery in the schools and
in the home between now and the
state fair
The contest at Salem will be made
one of the most important features of
the fair, Arrangements have been
made for motion pictures of the girls
at work for display over the nation,
and the canning demonstration will be
continuous throughout the six days Of
the fair. Two contests will be held
each day between teams of five girls
orch. For each of these twelve con
tests prizes of $40, $3.50 and SO will
bo offered.
The Eugene teams will be selected
by similar contests held during the
three days of the Lane county fair the
week previous to the state fair. The
winning teams Of the contests here will
have the expenses of trip to the
Salem fair paid for. The Marion coun.
ty teams will be selected in some diff.
ferent manner, but representative
teams will bo taken from the Chemawa
Indian school, the Salem high, school
and the Marion county rural schools.
The plans for the contest include the
growing of products for canning al
home before the fair. Each team will
have its time divided into two periods
and during the first Of these periods
they will can products Of their OWL
growing, aud the second period, that
for which they will he timed for speed
is that on which the prizes will be
granted Efficiency and appearance
will also be counted 10 the awarding OF
prizes. Tho two counties are the only
ones in the state that will participate
in these demonstrations.
According to the county agriculturis
home canning machines, which can b.
purchased for only few dollars, will
revolutioni2e the canning process o.
the housewife The canning unde
steam pressure permits more perfec
sterilization Of the fruit, it is claimed
and it permits the use of tin cans an,
saves the housewife time.
At an alLday agricultural rally t,
be held at Thurston, early in May, an
at which II II. French, state agricul
turist, l.. j, Chaplin and F. W. Rade
will be present, demonstrations o
mechanical canning for the housewife,
will bo made. To this meeting farmers
are planning to come for miles around
and the affair will he one of the mos
unique rural educational picnics eve
held in the state.
At the conference OF the two agri
eulturalists today plans were also lai,
for inter-county competition at corr
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Farmers from both counties will com
pete for prizes for displays of exhibit
of corn. The fair, !he first ever hel
in the state, ia arranged in the interes
of introducing corn growing in Oregon
The authorities declare that the farm
ers of Oregon have mistaken i'm
preston that corn cannot be success
fully grown in Oregon. They predic
that two or three years will see it
leading crop, and that il will be
factor in making Oregon a leading no
and cattle state
According to Mr.. RAIDER some fiftee
Lane county farmers will plant cor
especially for this exhibit.
Mr. RAIDER and MIR. Chaplin toda
went to Pleasant Hill to make exper
ments in the incubation of soil an
the use of lime to neutralize acid sol