Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1915-06-17
The SCHOOL
CONTEST WORK
County School Contests
Reviewed.
MANY ENROLLED
Some of the Rules Are More Fully
Explained by the County
Superintendent.

(Written for the Pioneer by County
School Supt. Unger.)
There are enrolled at the present
time 116 boys and girls in the corn
contest, 40 boys and girls in the sweet
potato contest, and II in the tomato
contest.
In the sewing and baking contests
there are enrolled a great many more:
t239 girls have handed in their appli-
cations to enter the sewing contest
and 11S to enter the baking contest.
These contests will be open in the
early fall, and pupils will be permitted
to enter in September. The number
Of entries is encouraging, indeed, and
the committees feel assured that the
exhibit of agricultural products, sew
ing and baking will be large one.
There Is some misunderstanding as
to the rules relating to the county con-
tests. Rule 2 of the corn growing
contest as printed on page 10 of the
county school contest pamphlet, says:
There shall be two classes of contes-
tants, pupils IL to Is years of age May
81, 1915, and all girls who may enter
the contest shall do all the work ex-
'cepting the plowing and marking the
ground; boys Is to 20 years of age
shall do all the work themselves"
The lower age limit was subsequently
eliminated, and pupils of any age were
permitted to enter.
The committee desires to make this
rule mean just what it says. Pupils
must do their own work. The cultiva-
ton cannot be left to the hired man,
or some one else. When the boy or
girl entered the contest, an application
was filled out, properly signed, in
which the contestant agreed to be gov
erned by the rules of the contest. The
same rule applies to- the other agri-
cultural contests as does the corn con-
test. 1t is therefore necessary that
the contestants observe this rule or
the committee will be under the ne
cessity of ruling them out of the con-
test.
There is also not thorough under
standing of Mr.. Goldman's work. Mr..
Goldman is employed as supervisor of
the county agricultural contests. and
his salary is paid by a person inter-
ested in the welfare of the bows and
girls of Cumberland County. Not a
cent is paid from any county funds.
Mr.. Goldman has the entire support of
the committee, and his work is not
that of Watchman but that of a SUI
pervisor. The committee have felt
that such a person could be of great
service to the boys and girls in the
agricultural contests in instructing
them as to the cultivation, fertiliza-
tion and harvesting of their crops. AS
a supervisor he is held responsible for
the observance of the rules pertaining
to the various contests.
Mr.. Goldman has devised a scheme
! in order that effort may be rewarded
as well as results. 1t is possible there
fore, for boy or girl to receive rec
ognition even though the crop should
be an entire failure
1t is not to be understood that any
contestants are ruled out for having
in some slight degree violated the
rule as to doing the work themselves
1t is desired, however, that the rule
be strictly observed hereafter. The
parent or guardian is expected to GER
I tify that the contestant has complied
with the rules and regulations and
has done the work without any assis-
tance before any prize will be award
ed