Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1921-09-30
BOYS AND GIRLS
DEMONSTRATIONS
Ten Teams Constitute Very In
teresting Department
Two Will Attend State Fair Next Week
With Expenses Paid by Valley Fair
Association.

One of the most interesting depart
mcnts of the fair included demonstrations
and exhibition of Boys and Girls clubs
of Windham county, and Cheshire
county, New Hampshire, which covered
practically everything from sewing to a
contest in the judging of live stock
Nine teams from Windham county and
one from Keene, N. H., gave demonstra-
tons, the corn demonstration team of
the Busy Bee club of Guilford winning
first prize, and stock Judging team of
the Windham County First Purebrcd
Calf club of Vernon winning second
prize. These two teams will go to the
state fair in White River Junction next
week, with all expenses paid by the Val
ley Fair association as a reward for their
work here Wednesday. The teams will en-
ter similar contests at the state fair with
teams from other counties, and the win
ners there will be sent to Burlington for
Achievement day, with all expenses paid.
The Keene Cooking club, which demon
strated making tomato soup, held third
position among all the teams here. The
team was accompanied here by County
Club Agent purinton and Club Leader
Mrs. IIoisington
The boys and girls on the two prize
winning teams were: Corn selection and
testing-Eva Borkowske, katherine Gal
lup and Harry Beals; Stock judging
Ellwyn Miller, Harold Blodgett, and
Robert Allen.
The other demonstration teams win
ming positions and the order in which
they stood were as follows: Busy Bee
club of Guilford, selection and shrinking
of Bingham, Shirley Beals, Frances
Beals, Dorothy Evans; poultry culling,
Marlboro Branch club, team =, Louise
Coates, Grace Bartlett, George Coates !;
canning Nottingham Garden and Can
ming club, Cora Gillette, Ruth Hall,
Clara Morse
Teams which entered the contest, but
did not win positions were: Stock judg-
ing, team 1, Windham County's First
Purebred Calf club Of Vernon, Maynard
Miller, Raymond Tenney, Jesse Rendieu !;
dairy, fitting COW for exhibit, Ellwyn
Miller, Raymond Tenney ,nHarold Blod-
gett: kimOna apron, Rockingham Happy
CO-Workers' Sewing club. Faire Diyoll,
Marion Morris, Marjorie Woolley; pouI.
try culling, Marlboro Branch club, Hulda
GOodell, Earl Collins, Warren Bruce.
The demonstrations which were given
under the south end of the grandstand.
where the exhibits with the exception of
livestock and pets were arranged, were
largely attended and much interest was
manifest in the work of the boys and
girls.
The Windham County Farm Bureau
also occupied a section of the hall and ex-
hibited a display of fruits sand vege-
tables, showing apples which had been
sprayed and some which hadS not. A
potato buster was included in the exhi-
bit, as were a large number of statistics
showing the farmer how to make his
farm pay better profits A chart also
showed the present members iifS sof the
Farm Bureau in Windham county to be
61S, each town being marked plainly with
the number of members enrolled.
The exhibits were not confined to boys
and girls of Windham county, but there
were several from Cheshire county in
New Hampshire.
The Farm Bureau membership list is
as follows: Athens 10, Brattleboro o.
Brookline 10. Dover 10, Dummerston 81,
Grafton 3, Guiford 30, Halifax 80, ia
maica IS, Londonderry 10, Marlboro "a,
Newfane "a, Putney As, Rockingham So
Somerset o. Stratton O, Townshend H.
Vernon 46. Wardsboro 20, Westminster
46, Nottingham 8, Wilmington u, Wind
ham 81 total, 61S.
The agricultural extension service Of
the state exhibited posters with much
information of benefit to- the farmers,
and photographs of boys and girls clubs
at their work.