Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-08-23
HOW FARMERS
CAN PROFIT BY
WORLDS FAIR

When the farm folk of the nation
descend upon the Worlds Fair of
1910 in New York, as they will for
the Fairs Farm Week, August r.
IS. they will discover their idle mo-
ments on the grounds can be utilized
profitably at one or another of the
numerous contests arranged for their
special benefit, as we'll as in the night
ly Golden Key contest to which all
Fair-goers are eligible.
The rewards for the winners-and
in one of the tests no less than 81
participants will receive prizes-range
from wearing apparel through food
stuffs and live stock to sets of auto
or tractor tires and pressure cookers.
and, in the Golden Key contest, a
handsome new Ford, Chevrolet or Ply
mouth sedan.
Farm boys and girls become can
didates for the top apparel awards
merely through registering at the
Ford Exhibit. Each will be given n
number upon registering and in the
drawing on Saturday, August II, the
lucky boy and the lucky girl will re-
ceive 500 wardrobe to be selected
by themselves at Lord & Taylor's in
New York City.
In the prize apparel category also
are nylon stockings to be awarded
daily at the DUPONT Exhibit to those
who guess most accurately the num-
Der of seeds in the rotary seed treat
er at that exhibit.
The pickle guessing contest, to be
conducted daily at the Heinz Exhibit,
offers 81 prizes. Those who most close
ly estimate the number of pickles in
a glass container will receive Heinz
products in fancy array as magazine
racks, tresaure chests, etc. For guess
ing the correct weight of hams in
the daily contest at the Swift Exhib-
it the winner will be awarded the
ham on which the winning guess is
made.
At Borden's the test will be that OF
guessing the weight of pedigreed calv'
es and the winner will march off with
the calf of his choice. This, too, is
daily contest during Farm week, as
is also the event at the Sealtest Elk
hibit where the Farm folk are to be
asked to estimate the cubic contents
of a glass milk container and the
winners receive as prize Stand
ard Pressure Cooker.
Firestone's Needle in Haystack'
contest will reward the winners with
free tickets to American Jubilee OF
other featured shows in the Fairs
Amusement Area. The needles" tC
be discovered in the haystack will not
be of the tiny, steel but larger wooder
affairs somewhat less difficult to dis.
cover.
And those Farm Week visitors who
obtain Magic Circle entry keys out
side the Fair Grounds will become
eligible, with other Fair-goers, fol
the Golden Key contest. These en-
try keys may be tested at any of the
battery of contest chests located OF
the Fair Grounds. Those whose key.
unlock such chests will find within {
silver key. These silver keys in turn
should be brought to the Magic Cir
Gle in front of American Jubilee al
10 P. M. where they may be exchanged
for gold keys. One of these gold key:
will unlock the paddock on the prize
car in the Magic Circle and its holder
may then drive away in the shiny Sc
dan, which is the daily award.
Such prizes are in addition to the
numberless souvenirs, samples, etc.
which will be distributed to farm foil
at many of the Fairs eXhibits-ant
open house or special programs have
been arranged at the Beechnut, Bor
den, Continental Baking, Glass Cen
ter, Heinz, Sealtest, Standard Brands
Swift, Dupont, Ford General Electric
General Motors, Goodrich, Johns Man
vile, Firestone, Petroleum, Electri
fled Farm and many other of the biz
exhibits.