The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-04
FOR YOUNG FOLKS
Boys and Girls Have Big Part
in Free Fair This Year.
Winners of Various Contests to
Draw $500 in Prizes.
TO HOLD MANY new EVENTS
Musicians, Bird House and
Milking Contests Features.
Garden, Poultry and Pig Clubs
to Get Special Prizes.

Kansas boys and girls are going to
have their full share of attention at
the Kansas Free Fair to be held in
Topeka, September IL to II. More
than $500 in prizes will go to the
young folks and eight departments
have been set aside for their special
benefit
The baby beef contest, announced
last year, will be held this year and
$500 in prizes are offered for baby
heifers or steers calved after January
n, 1920. The American Hereford Cat
tie Breeders association and the Kan
sas Shorthorn Breeders association
will duplicate all prizes in this class
won by beeves sired by registered
Hereford and Shorthorn bulls.
The poster contest held last year
will be repeated this year and prizes
will be given for the best poster done
by an amateur advertising the Free
Fair.
In the Sunday school department
prizes will be given for the best eX-I
hibits by city and rural schools. mis-
sions and individuals of rural and city
communities.
Club Department Is Biggest.
The boys and girls clubs depart
this year. Substantial prizes will be
given the winners of contests arranged
for bread making, canning, garden,
clothing. pig, and poultry clubs. In
addition to regular prizes, special
prize of SIS will be given the bread
making club making the best showing
at the fair, the money to be used in
paying the expenses of one or more
representatives from this club to Farm
and Home week at Manhattan. One
loaf of bread is all each contestant will
be allowed to enter.
Three prizes each will be given for
the best exhibits of fourteen varieties
of canned fruits, fourteen varieties of
canned vegetables and six varieties of
canned meats. Prizes will also bel
given for the five best displays of
thirty-siX quarts each of canned prod
ucts from each club group.
In the garden club division prizes
are offered for the three best exhibits
of tomatoes, potatoes, onions, beans,
beets, sugar beets, parsnips, carrots,
pumpkins, squash. cabbage, musk
melon, turnips, cucumbers, roasting
ears, sweet potatoes, egg plants, eel
cry, mango peppers and radishes.
special prize of $40 will be paid the
winner of the tomato, potato or gar
den club group making the best show
ing, the money to be used in sending
a representative to Farm and Home
week at Manhattan.
For the pig clubs, in addition to the
regular prizes offered by the Free
Fair association. special prizes are Of
| fered by the Poland China Breed Pro-
motion committee, the National Duroc-
| Jersey Record association, the Swine
| World the Duroc Bulletin, and 9TH
| ers. In the poultry department prizes
are offered for the five best pullets,
cockerels or pairs of any variety of
| chickens The $25 cash prize to be
used in sending representatives to
| Manhattan Farm and Home week Will
be given the winning groups in both
| the pig and poultry contests.
Three New Contests This Year.
| Eight prizes, ranging from $40 to
| 81. will be given in the statewide
| spelling contest which will be held
the second day of the Free Fair. This
| contest proved one of the most inter-
| esting on the grounds last fall.
The bird house contest and milking
| contest for girls are among the new
| features that will interest the young
people this year. Substantial prizes
are offered the winners in both events
The amateur musicians contest is
another new and novel feature that
| promises to be extremely popular.
| The contest will be open only for res
| idents of Kansas under is years old.
| Prizes of SIS. $40 and IS will be given
| the winners for contests for piano, vio-
| lin and vocal selections. Prizes of
$50. SIS and SIS will be given the
| winners in the contest for girls and
boys Piec clubs. The glee clubs will
| be limited to memberships of twelve
each.