The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-03-25
BOYS, THE MONEY
IS READY FOR YOU
LOCAL BUSINESS MEN HAVE
SUBSCRIBED $500 IN CASH
FOR CORN CONTEST.
There WILL BE MANY Entries
CONTESTANTS MUST EXHIBIT
AT STEARNS COUNTY FAIR
GOVERNING RULES.

The man who ties his purse strings
in hard knot and then hides the
purse soon looses the respect of his
family. If every member could feel
that the farm is a business partner
ship, many boys and girls would not
be so anxious to try their fortunes
somewhere else.
The Boys Corn Contest is going
to help. you solve this very problem.
The boys and girls do not, by any
means, get all their education in
school. What you do and say right
at home is the most powerful educa-
tional course they will ever take. They
forget what they learn from books
or teachers in schools, but the home
education will last as long as they
live.
Realizing this fact, the school and
the business men of Sank Centre have
seen fit to offer $4,000 in prizes for
what promises to be the most sensa-
tional agricultural exhibit the Stearns
County Fair has ever had. 1t is a
DOyo SOuICSO, lIl0s III
rection Of the school and for the pur-
pose of establishing more intimate
relationship between the home, the
school and the boy. The boys enter
ed are going to grow an acre of corn
which is to represent their own efforts
They will receive what help they can
from parents, bulletins, or any avail
able source and then display the re-
suits of their labors at the Fair next
fall
What better method could be devils
ed for unifying the thought and in
terest of our future corn growers than
that of good strong contest?
We have said that the prizes offer
ed were contributed by our business
men. We will go even further and
give you their names, under protest,
of course, but we have their word for
it, so here goes:
Jas. Caughren.
S. T. Merryman. =
| S. P. Hansen.
]. B. Schoenhoff. -.
j. A. Schoenhoff.
McCracken & Burgess.
Smith Bros Livery.
G. Hillerud & Co.
C. D. Marshall & Co.
John Boutell.
Investors Security Association.
First State Bank.
Entries will be made UP to May Is.
Contestants must be between the ages
of 10 and Is years and must live in
any of the outlying districts tribu-
tary to Sank Centre. Application may
be made to either o. E. Gibson or M.
D. Aygarn. Further particulars may
be had upon request.
The Herald republishes herewith
the rules governing the contest:
1. He must grow at least one
acre of corn which must be
checked in, not drilled.
2. He must keep complete rec
ord of all operations and send in
reports as called for.
3. He must do all the work him
self except in case of young con-
testants who may secure help
and charge it up to the plot at
| a fixed and standard price per
unit of labor.
4. He must select and exhibit a
representative sample of one
bushel of his corn, ten best ears,
and best single ear, Of the corn
grown on the plot, at the Stearns
County Fair in September, 1915.
Any standard variety of, corn may
be grown but no mixed samples will
be considered. The plot may be any
selected acre of large field of corn
but an isolated acre is preferable
This acre must be indicated at the
time of planting.
Prizes are to be awarded as fol-
lows: -
| Best Single Ear Exhibited.
ISL prize ............,.. SlO.OU
Ind prlZe TOO
The next six contestants will re-
ceive $1.00 each.
Best Ten Ears Exhibited.
LIST prize .............. SIS. 90
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