The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-18
Pennsylvania Club Boys Receive Honors

NASJ oN'Sh ShuiOlIo WCIt tl-
tered In the State boys corn and
potato club contest conducted by
the Pennsylvania State College
in connection with It's annual
Farmers Week IN December.
The clubs whose members tigur
ed IN the contest were organized
in most cases by county agricul
tural extension representatives
under the regulations prescribed
by state club leader, G. w Glenn
mer.
In awarding the prizes, the
following points were taken into
consideration: bushelful yield per
acre, excellence Of report or sto-
ry Of work done and the merit
of the exhibit of corn and pota-
toes, as the case might be. Three
prizes are offered in connection
with thus annual contest at State
College. The first prize includes
expenses for a winter course, In
agriculture at the College; the
second prize, expenses to Farm
er's Week; and the third three
books on agricultural subjects.
The judges Of the contests are
members of the staff OF the
School of Agriculture.
In the corn growing contest,
Clarence d. DCnkel of Myers
town, Berks County, Pa, won
the first prize with a score of
80 . per cent and a yield per acre
Of 10 bushels shelled corn. Paul
h Snyder of Reading, Berks
County, Pa, won second prize
with a score at $751; per cent and
a yield per acre of LOG II bushels
Lewis Dana Rice OF Bloomfield
Perry county, Pa, won third
prize with a score OF 81 8 per
cent aud a yield per acre of 1I07
bushels.
In the potato growing contest,
Neyman Carey of Sundy Lake,
Mercer County, Pa, won first
prize with a score of "a per cent
and a yield per acre of $40 1
bushels. Clyde Herrlck of Cam.
bridge Springs, Crawford coun-
ty, Pa won second prize with a
score of 69.4 per cent and a yield
per acre of 22S.S bushels. George
E Harris of Newtown, Bucks
County, Pa, won third prize with
a score OF &C 7 per cent and a
yield per acre of 1874 4 bushels.
The value of these contests are
not to be measured IN dollars and
cents, but rather IN the economic
training they give the boys en-
listed in them in keeping &C
counts of receipts and expendi
lures, IN the sense of ownership,
achievement and ability which 1t
generates and IN the opportunl-
ties which club work In general
provides for physical, lntellec-
tual, and social development and
for recreation.
When it is remembered that
the last census Figures give 30
bushels as the average yield of
shelled corn per acre IN Pennsyl
vania and S3 bushels as the aver
age yield of potatoes, the yields
secured by the winners in this
contest are, to say the least start
ling The lowest yield of corn in
the contest was fifty four bushels
and the highest, 100 bushels. For
potatoes the lowest yield was
1874 4 bushels aud the highest
1894 4 bushels. These results au
CUR well for the future of club
work IN Pennsylvania.
The counties represented in
the contest are Beaver, Berks,
Blair, Cambria, Fayette, Jeffer-
Lawrence, Montgomery,
Potter and Westmoreland.
The boys club work will be
prosecuted on a larger scale this
year by State College. Present
plans comprehend the extension
of the work into counties where
1t was not known last year. The
end is not yet. This work con-