The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-09-02
Eleven Hundred
Youth in State
Fair Contests
$4,000 N. w. BOYS AND GIRLS
NOW COMPLETING CLUB PRO-
JECTS; $4,000 IN MINNESOTA.
STATE LEADER REPORTS.

Getting expert training as farmers
Of the future, $4,000 boys and girls
Of the northwest last week were conn
pleting their 1925 club projects, COM
peting for honors which include trips
to great expositions, short courses
and prizes as proof that they ara
learning their business. Eleven humid
red of them will GO to the Mime
sofa State Fair, opening Saturday,
selected at county fairs or in county
competitions as the best in their kind
of club work.
These boys and girls will lead vast
army of 100000 persons to three
fairs this fall-to the Minnesota State
Fair, September 5 to IL, the Wiscon-
sin State Fair at Milwaukee this
week and to the South Dakota State
Fair at Huron, September IA to 18.
The North Dakota fair already has
taken place.
Competition for prizes will be items
in the experiences of LOO boys and
girls who will come to another short
course, which is part of the State
Fair, I. A. Erickson, state club Lead
er said. He announced that the dairy
club part of the boys and girls work
has grown so remarkably that en-
tries will be 20 per cent higher than
last year.
There are $4,000 boy and girl club
members in Minnesota, working out
a dozen varieties of projects in COM
petition. From those $4,000, the 1,1O0
were picked to come to the fair, Wis
consin has 10000 boy and girl club
members who competed for trips to
the Milwaukee fair. South Dakota
have almost $4,000 boy and girl club
members between them, all of them
engaged in learning proper farming
and "farmwifing" and competing for
short courses and trips.
Champions in each of the five breeds
at the Minnesota fair will get scholar
ships as additional prizes. Awards
are made with the idea that trips and
educational courses are the best
types of prizes that can be offered.
A single barn will house all calves.
Boys and girls will stay in separate
buildings at University Farm, boys
under the care of H. A. Pflughoeft,
and girls under Miss Velma Slocum,
assistants of Mr.. Erickson.
A new venture this year will be q
five days short course for the 1,1OO
boys and girls. They will meet for two
hours Of each day, from Monday to
Friday, and listen to talks by a staff
of specialists from the Agriculture
College and the Fair.
Because of the record entry, demon
strations by boys and girls will COM
mence Saturday instead of on Monday
as formerly. Demonstrations will be
conducted in the boys and girls club
building.
There will be 120 girls in the bread
making contests at the fair, as well
as sixteen teams of two girls each.
-Four cake teams, of two girls each,
and four individual entries in cake
club work, also have been made. In
the sewing division. there will be AZ
teams, OF two girls each. Forty teams
have entered for canning work. There
will be extensive exhibits Of sewing
and canning work.
Four gardening teams, three potato
teams, Is poultry teams, two corn
teams, one sheep team and one baby
beef team will compete. In pig club
work, there will be from 60 to 20 in
dividual entries, but no teams. There
will be 100 individual potato exhibits,
and the some number of corn displays.
In dairy stock Judging, there win
be 30 teams, and the same number of
teams will compete in general live
stock judging demonstrations. There
are four teams in health project work,
a new feature at the fair.
Listed in new projects this year
are two bee teams and one alfalfa
team. There will be a large exhibit
OF honey by boys and girls interest
ed in beekeeping.
Total prizes of $23 3,301.50 are be-
ing given to encourage boys and
girls club work, the largest sum Of
fered for that purpose by any fair
in the world, by a wide margin.
Leaders in boys and girls club work
from all parts of the country as wen
as representatives of the United
States department Of agriculture. have
signified their intention of coming to
see how work is being done at the
fair, so they may encourage the same
sort OF work on an even larger scale
in other states.
Each boy and girl is given free
transportation to and from the fair.
in addition to thousands of dollars in
special prizes.