The Evening Missourian., 1919-12-13
To FEATURE GRAIN
JUDGING CONTESTS
Farmers Week to Have
Teams Here From Voca-
tional High Schools.
OFFERS SIX PRIZES
Short Course Men Will Com
pete for Farmers Medal
in Field Crops.


Missouri Farmers Week to be held
at Columbia January 10 to % is the
Judging contest in grains and farm
crops for teams from the vocational
high schools of Missouri. c. A. Helm
of the farm crops department has al
ready received letters from the fol-
lowing twelve schools saying they
will send teams to represent their
schools:
Bethany, Butler, Chillicothe, Hunts
Vile, Macon, Montgomery City, New
London, Palmyra, Pattonsburg, Rich
mond, Tina and Unionville.
Competition will be keen Professor
Helm predicts. Each team will con-
sist of three men selected as best
qualified to represent their school.
Entry blanks from other schools will
be accepted up to January II.
The Prizes Offered.
The awards will consist of the Edu-
cation Trophy given by the Kansas
City Star for promotion of the study
of farm seeds, also prizes of the fol-
lowing denominations: First prize,
$40; second, SIS; third, SIC; fourth,
S14; and fifth, S12. The individual
making the highest grade will be
awarded gold medal by the Missouri
Corn Growers Association.
Second-year Short Course men will
compete against each other in farm
crops judging contest for the Farm
ers' Medal, an annual prize. In addi-
tion, all men of the second year en-
rollment in the Short Course who
make grades above IS per cent in
the contest will be issued grain judg-
ing certificates by the Missouri Col
lege of Agriculture, qualifying them
to judge local, township and county
shows. These certificates will be good
for one, two or three years, depend
ing on the grade the student re-
ceives.
To Display Fresh Meats.
An educational feature put on by
the animal husbandry department,
which is creating considerable inter-
est, is the program being arranged
by the meats and butchering division
There will be display of fresh meats
killed during the week.
The fat steer which is to be killed
for the Farmers Week Banquet, to
be held on Friday night, will appear
on foot in the judging ring on Tues
day alongside of Gamer COW. Com
parisons will be made by the instruc-
tor in charge and the general good
points and bad points in each animal
discussed freely by the class.
Wednesday both animals will be
slaughtered and Thursday morning al
interested in the comparative exhibit
of the dressed meat of the two ami
mails will have an opportunity to SET
the various cuts of each displayed side
by side in the coolers where the dress
ing percentages of the two animal:
will be taken up by the instructor il
charge.
No Ham and Bacon Show.
The ham and bacon show which wa.
established several years ago for thu
first time at the Missouri Farmers
Week, where the idea originated, ant
which gave Missouri great amour
of publicity all over the country, will
probably not be held this year fo
lack of funds to cover prizes and ex
penses of the show.
The money formerly appropriatet
by the Missouri State Board of Agri
culture, but last year this supper
was withdrawn and the show fel
through. 1t had been hoped tina
money might be raised for re-estab
fishing the show this year, but so ia
no funds seem to be forthcoming from
any source. Last year regular visit
ors at Farmers Week felt the alb
sence of the ham and bacon show
more than any other one thing.
The Missouri Ham and Bacon Sho,
idea originated with W. L. Nelso
when he was member of the Mis-
souri, State Board of Agriculture. TIL
idea has been copied by number O
other states, and successful show
have been held whera eyar thav how