The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-02-12
AND CORN
PRIZES WON BY
FARM BOYS
Walton Harrington Of North Ben
ningtun Won First
ROBERT CIRCUIT WAS SECOND
In the Potato Contest Harvey Wood
cock and Willard Laurie of Sand.
cate Took Two Leading Prizes


ty Improvement Association continu-
ed with gratifying results the Boys
and Girls Club Work which had been
inaugurated the year previous. In
response to the offer OF prizes which
the Association made last spring
seventy-fve boys and girls enrolled in
the contests this year. or these lif-
teen members grew one half acre of
corn each and sixty members grew
one-eighth acre of potatoes. Nearly
sixty of the members completed their
crop work and over one half of these
sent in reports of their work and ex-
penses to the County Agent, Mr..
Sherman Eleven towns out OF the
seventeen in this County were repre-
scented in this work.
The interesting Of boys and girls in
farm life by means or organized clubs
is not a new thing, nor is it peculiar
to Bennington County alone. Some
ten years ago the U. S. Dept. of Agri-
culture began this work in the Cot
ton Belt States with unusual success.
At the present time there are over
100000 boys and girls enrolled as
members throughout the United
States. Many kinds of clubs havo
been organized such as poultry,
mi, on rhnnin y
and canning clubs. To describe the
work of any of these clubs would re
quire considerable space. The De-
partment OF Agriculture in coopera-
ton with the different states main
tains a large number OF workers in
this particular field.
In Bennington County the County
Improvement association offered
prizes last spring to the extent of
$40. These prizes consisted OF =
first and second in both the Corn aud
Potato contests, and several smaller
prizes. In the Potato Club the first
prize of S25 was offered for Best all
round one-eighth acre of potatoes.
A $15 prize was Offered for second
best all-round one eighth acre OF po-
tatoes In awarding these prizes
four things were considered, namely,
% largest yield, GU greatest net in
come, go best peck exhibit and (4)
best history, How | Raised my Crop
of Potatoes" Equivalent prizes were
offered in the corn classes, and
awarded in the same manner. The
smaller prizes offered were for larg.
est yield, greatest net income, best
exhibit and best history
The winner of the first prize in the
corn contest is Walton Harrington Of
North Bennington who receives
twenty-five dollars. He obtained a
yield of forty-one bushels shelled corn
(by weight and net income of $1I
90. corn estimated at soc per bushri
for common corn and $500 for seed
corn. The second prize winner of fiji.
teen dollars was Robert Crofut OF
West Arlington who obtained the
yield OF SO bushels of shelled corn
and a net income of 1924 from his
hall acre.
In the potato contest the two large
prizes go to the town of Sandgate.
Harvey Woodcock of that town OBJ.
tanned so bushels of marketable po
tatoes from his one-eighth acre and
net income of $3.50 ordinary pota.
toes considered at 40 cents per bush.
ell and seed potatoes at $1.00 VIII
lard Lourie of the same town re-
ceived the second prize, having OBJ
tanned yield of 46 bushels and a net
income of $99S The other prizes
We're awarded as follows
Horace Hulett of Arlington re-
first prize on largest yield and also
first prize on history. Earl DEMO OF
Bennington takes first prize of $3.50
on net income. Walter Smith of West
Arlington is allowed first prize OF
$500 on best peck of potatoes and al
so first prize of 800 on best hill of
potatoes. Harold Elwell of Shafts
bury receives second prize for best |
history. Each of these prize winners
also received a solid silver club pin
as an emblem of their industry and |
perseverance.
AT different times the Histories
of these prize winners will be pub
lished in the county papers so that a
clearer insight of purpose and results
of the work may be obtained. 1t -
needless to state that the influence OF
the club work is far-reaching 1t
plays an important part in making the
boys and girls of the rural districts
better citizens and teaching them not
only to grasp all opportunities that
may come to them but also that op-