The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-07-09
COUNTY DADS GIVE PRIZES

COUNTY DADS GIVE PRIZES
Commissioners West, Baylor, and An
ders0n Offer Good Premiums.
Boys and Girls of Valley County
schools will be the recipients of spe-
cial attention at the Valley County
Fair through the interest taken in
them by the Board of County Com
missioners. Each commissioner has
announced to the Fair Association that
he will pay the travelling expenses of
one scholar to the State Fair at Hell
ena this fall.
One of the special awards announc-
ed by the Montana State College of
Agriculture consists of Boys and
Girls Club contests in competition for
trips to the State Fair where the win
ners will have all expenses paid for
lodging and meals by the State Fair
Association. The competition will be
for the boy showing the best ten ears
of corn, the best twelve potatoes and
the girl showing the best pint of can
ned Montana grown peas.
Peter West, Chairman of the Board
of County Commissioners, stated he
had never had time to properly give
to gardening or farming, so he desired
to encourage boys of Valley County
to give some of their time during the
summer to growing potatoes. Mr..
West believes the best potatoes grown
in Montana are produced in Valley
County and so to prove his contention
he will pay the expense Of the trip
to the State Fair for the boy who
wins the first prize for the IL best
potatoes at the Valley County Fair
in September.
Canned peas that test like those Of
the good old days in Texas have nev-
er been found in Montana according
to County Commissioner VIM. Baylor,
and this may have Influenced his
whole life. Had he found canned peas
in Montana tasting as they used to
back there Mr.. Baylor might have
carried off the one who put them up
and lived happily ever after. Believ-
ing Montana-grown peas can be can
ned and made as succulent as any in
the world, Mr.. Baylor, wishes. to en-
courage the school girls of Valley
County in this work so he promises
to pay the expense of trip to the
State Fair for the girl who wins first
prize at the Valley County Fair for
the best pint jar of Montana-grown
canned peas. This should bring out a
class of competitors large enough to
fill the exhibit hall with this vegetable.
County Commissioner Carl Ander-
son is one of the largest sheep owners
in Valley County, and he has, with the
other stockmen, come to the realiz-
alton that feeding is an important fac
tor for successful stock raising under
present conditions. He believes the
future of sheep raising in Montana
depends upon the feed grown for
them and believing corn will be an
important item for fattening sheep,
desires to encourage the growing of
large acreage in Valley County. To
promote the development of corn
growing here Mr.. Anderson has prom
ised to give a free trip to the State
Fair to the boy whose 10 ears of corn
wins first prize at the Valley coun-
ty Fair, September CTS. Here is
added inducement for the boys to get
into the corn growing contest in ear
nest. 1t ought to mean that there will
be bushels and bushels of high class
corn shown at the County Fair this
fall.
The winning corn, potatoes and pint
can of peas will be sent to Helena
Immediately at the close of the fair by
the Fair Association and a rousing
good time is promised for the three
who make the trip.
Miss Alene McGregor, County Su-
perintendent of Schools, will give any
additional information desired to any
scholar who wishes to enter this COM
petition.