Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-10-22
AGRICULTURAL CONTEST.
Exhibits and Speeches at Grange
Hall Thursday and Friday.

more than hundred entries for prizes.
was one by the State Extension Service
and two fine tables of corn. There were
many varieties of corn: eight row yell
low flint, eight row white flint, more
than eight row, dent, and a special ex-
hibt of some red dent corn from Wis
consin. There was also an exhibit of
red pop corn. Some remarkable corn,
entered on account of its length, meas
ured Is 1-2 inches long. Other interest
ing entries were pumpkins, squashes,
carrots, onions, tomatoes, cucumbers,
and other garden truck There were
number of remarkable entries of apples,
also a few exhibits of pears. Along
other lines were canned fruit in great
variety, and number of entrances in
needle work On the tables were vari-
GUS kinds of plants and bulbs, making
pretty decorations as we'll as being en-
tered for prizes.
In the afternoon of Thursday, the
21st, Miss Thayer of the Home Econ
omics Department of the Extension Ser
vice of the University of Vermont, gave
canning de nonstration. There were
seventy-five women present and very
interesting and valuable talk was list
ened to. Miss Thayer thoroughly un-
derstands her work, having given
number of demonstrations, and the
State is doing good work in sending
her out.
There was boys corn judging con-
test in charge of the county agent and
an agricultural extension expert. Teams
representing the following institutions
competed for silver cup: Orwell Boys
Club, Vergennes, Bristol, New Haven,
and Brandon High schools. Gov. G. w.
Gates spoke Friday afternoon at 300
p. m. Hon. J. E. Weeks, president of the
Addison County Hospital Association
spoke on the hospital project Friday
afternoon.
The leaders of this movement are
doing it for the benefit of the boys and
girls of the county. A ddison County is
an agricultural community and it is
we'll for US to center the interest of our
youth on the SOIL the main source of
our income. The contest was not in
tended for the financial benefit of any
individual, or individuals, but for the
benefit of the community and the young
people especially The whole affair was
free and was fnancedby the people of the
community, with the quotation in mind,
1.-THE man who is educated sees oppor-
tunity. The man who'is capable seizes
opportunity, but it is the man who is
efficient who sticks to opportunity until
he makes of it a success"
Friday morning at late hour before
going to press the following prz es had
been awarded:
CORN CONTEsT-FoR Boys.
Eight Row Yellow Flint.
Best single ear Hatchet, 1st prize,
Cecil Lille; End. Jasper Ferand
Best ten ears--camp lamp given by
Robinson Hardware Co., Brandon,
VT, lst, Earl Lille; End, Cecil Lii
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More than Eight Row.
Best single ear-Hatchet, 1st, How
ard Burt; End, Earl Lille; 3rd,
Stanly James.
Best ten ears-Fountain pen, given
by T. Neville, druggist, Vergennes
VT, 1st, Allen Skinner; End, How
ard Burt 3rd, William Bascomb.
PUMPKIN CONTEST.
Best Pumpkin.
Shoes, value $3.50, given by H. C.
Herrick, Clothier, Vergennes, Vt,
d. Corkran.
Biggest Pumpkin.
Prize-$3. so value to be chosen at ]
w. & d. E. Ryan's hardware store,
Vergennes, Vt, George Ferland.
POTATO CONTEST BOYS.
Best Peck.
Red-1st prize Flashlight, w. C.
Duncan, Electrician, Middlebury,
Vt, to be decided later; End, Scout
Knife, Agricultural Committee, to
be decided later.
White-1st prize-Boys' Garden Set,
American Fork & Hoe Co., Walling-
ford, Vt, George Farnham; 2nd,
Scout Knife, Agricultural Com
mittee, to be decided later.
POTATO CONTEST-FOR MEN.
Best Half Bushel Potatoes.
Red-lst prize e-Thermos Bottle given
by Rexall Drug Store, Vergennes,
Vt. Gordon McQuivey; End prize,
Potato Fork, American Fork &
Hoe Co., Wallingford, VT, not de-
cided
White-1st prize, Carbonic Syphon,
Brewster & Frost, Druggists, Md
dldbury, VT, Arthur Lucia; 2nd,
prize, Hand Weeder. American
Fork & Hoe Co., Wallingford, Vt,
Lyman Peet; 3rd, Gordon McQuivey.
APPLES.
The committee offered a $5. 90 Gold
Piece as prize for best exhibit of
apples. First, S. E. James; I'd,
SO; Gordon McQuivey; 3rd, 81, Ar
thur Lucia.
Men and Women Contests were open