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Boys and Girls
Corn Club Contest

J Dawson county will have a biz
J county wide Boys and Girls Corr
J Club contest this year, which will
be continued two years in a Coco
Farming contest. Prizes are be.
ing secured which will be well
worth working for.
, The contest is being put on
with four objects in view, first,
to interest and instruct Dawson
County Boys and Girls in farming,
and to give them profitable en-
ployment; second to secure accli-
mated high yielding strains of
corn in the county and guard
against another shortage of seed
corn; third to demonstrate that
corn is profitable crop in Daw-
son county and that it is essential
in a good profitable crop rotation;
fourth to secure pure seed of the
different varieties of grain raised
in the county.
These contests have been very
successful in other states, as in
North Dakota, where the boys
and girls clubs definitely demon
strated that corn was a profitable
crop. The also were means of
getting and testing out in compar-
alive tests on their acre plots, the
highest yielding strains of corn, |
many of which have yielded as
much as 80 bushels to the acre.
In some of the older southern
states the state average yields of
corn have been doubled as re-
suit of boys and girls work.
In Dawson county, in addition
to interesting the boys and girls
in agriculture, the acre corn plots
will prove and test out cur high
est yielding strains of corn. The
seed from some of the best plots
will be worth thousands of dollars
to the county, and it would take
years to obtain it and prove it out
n any other way. In North Da-
lota the boys with the highest
plots of corn had all their .
iced sold in a very few days after |
he returns of the contest were !
u
The contest the first year viii .
re carried on as straight corn q
ontest in order not to confuse
oungsters. The second year,
owever they will grow pure seed
7heat on the clean corn ground.
hey will be assisted and directed 4
/ securing pure seed from their,
athers or neighbors fields, so
lat no cash expenditure will be
equired. This will be a source
more pure seed wheat in the N
0unty than would be obtained in v
ny other manner. When distri- M
uted it will be a means ct saving V
rye amounts by dockages and
approving grades.
The third year pure seed either
oats, barley or flax will be sown
the boy or girl chooses. The 60
led will be secured i'll much the -
me manner as the wheat seed
e previous year Assistance
i'll be given the Youngsters in
their seed each year.
Boys and girls between the ages
8 and II years inclusive are de-
gible, and are urged to enter tn
e contest. One acre or corn al
ill be grown, and prizes will be at
varded on the basis of yields of =
ain and slower, low cost of pro- Z
Iction, and a store of How the y
,rn Crop was Grown"
The contestants may plant any
ed corn that they choose, but
e urged to plant Montana grown
ed when possible. Field select
accimated, Montana grown
rn will be furnished them att
st if they desire to get it.
rough seed 10 plant an acre will
obably cost from thirty to forty
nts including postage. More
tailed information regarding
is together with the rules of the
ntest will be published later.
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