Newark post., 1918-12-18
Boys and Girls
Club News
Europeans Want Pure Bred
Cattle
Other Items of Interest to
the Junior Extension
Department

Contest.
+ Open to all non-college trained
hovs and girls of Delaware between
the ages of 10 and Is years, inclusive.
,. The Judging contest will be held
on Thursday, January 16, 1919.
2 Contestants will judge three 1O-ear
SAMPLES of white corn and three 10
oar samples of yellow corn, and write
up the reasons.
i. Prizes for highest score in judg-
ing.
1st. $500; 2nd, $4.00; 3rd, $500;
18th, $500; 5th, S1.OO.
Lieutenant Dare Makes Supreme Sac
rifce.
Lieutenant Donald Dare, former
club leader of Kent county, succumb-
ed to pneumonia on December 9, at
Camp Grant, Illinois. Donald was
alried near his late home at James
Durg, New Jersey.
\nother Club Member Married.
Mildred X. Hall, Pig Club member
of Newark, was recently married to
William C. Hoover, of Elkton, Md.
Miss Medill Returns to Club Work.
We are glad to announce that Miss
Agnes P. Medill, Assistant State Club
Leader. has about recovered from her
recent illness and will return to the
office for regular work on December
23d.
II. The Corn Club Exhibit.
Omen to all corn club members of
Delaware.
2 Prizes for best 10-ears grown on
the club acre-1st. $500; End, S4.OO;
2rd. So 90; 4th, $500; 5th, $1.OO.
III. The Sussex County Corn Club
Exhibit.
I. Open to all corn club members OF
Sussex county.
,. Prizes for best 10-ears grown on
club acre. (The Sussex county eX-
h;bits can be entered in the State
Corn Club exhibit-1st, $4.00; End
81 90; 3rd, $500; 4th, 81 90.
If YOU desire to learn more about
irJging corn, we shall be glad to as
sist YOU: if you want to exhibit in the
c,ub contests, We shall help you pre-
r3re YOUR corn. A card from you adj
dressed to the State Club Leader OF
the Coutny AgriculturalAgent will Sc
cure this help.
Pure Bred Pig For Sale.
William Clugston, Pig Club mem
her of Newport, desires to sell hi.
pure bred Chester White boar. The
pig is eight months old, weighs about
200 pounds, comes from the best o.
Chester county stock, and is IN tln'
condition.
William will continue his pure bret
SOW in the Sow and Litter Contest.
Club Members to be Awarded a
County Farm Bureau Meetings.
Mass meetings of the County Farm
Bureaus will be held in Delaware a
follows:
Kent County-January 2, in Wolf
Hall, at Newark.
Sussex County-January 8, in Cour
House. at Georgetown.
New Castle County-January 8, il
Opera House at Dover.
Champion club winners will be pub
licly awarded in the afternoon a
these meetings in recognition of tn
successful home project work tina
they have done during the curren
year. All club members who ca
should be present.
An agent of the Serbian Govern
ment has written to Chicago askin
for prices on $4,000 dairy cattle. Mi
lions of high class dairy animals hav
been slaughtered in Serbia, Roumanl'
France, Great Britain and ltal!
These countries have already begu
to re-establish their foundation herd
Good milk will always be in deman
and will never likely be cheaper dul
ing the winter months. From tn
standpoint of food value, it is by ia
the cheapest food consumed. Farm
ers who ship milk to Philadelphia re
ceived the best prices in America. A
the same time, the consumers in Phi
adelphia pay only Ia cents per qual
for their milk, while the consumers
New York City and Boston are payin
II cents. and in Washington 1S cent
per quart. This is the good result
tho new zone system of distribution.
Pure Bred Dairy Calf Clubs will
organized wherever sufficient nun
ber Of boys and girls desire to pu
chase calves and learn how to fee