wiLsoNl SCHOOL CONTESTS AND AGRICULTURAL WORK 53 



9. The contest will be decided according to the following conditions, 

 making 100 points in all: 40 points on yield, standard being 80 bushels 

 or inore per acre; 50 points for the score of the twenty ears entered in the 

 corn show; 10 ])oints on record of how grown. 



10. In each township the township trustee and the vice-president of the 

 farmers' institute will act as a committee to determine the yield, 70 lbs. 

 being considered as a bushel. 



1 1. All entries in the corn show should be in Wilhite's jewelry store or 

 the county superintendent's office by December 2, but entries will be re- 

 ceived up to 6.00 p. m., December 6, 1907. 



12. The prizes are as follows : ist prize, $20.00 cash; 2d prize, $ic.oo 

 cash; 3d prize, $5.00 cash or equivalent; 4th prize, $3.50 cash or equiva- 

 lent; 5 th prize, $2.00 cash or equivalent; next ten prizes, $1.00 each, cash 

 or equivalent. 



Reinarks; If it becomes necessary to limit the number of entries, an 

 effort will be made to equalize the number in each township. Teachers 

 having pupils desiring to enter, should send in the names and addresses at 

 once, so that arrangements" may be made for enough seed corn. 



The acre selected for growing the corn should be clover sod, separated 

 by several rods from any other corn. The soil should be fertile and well 

 drained. A moderately heavy coat of barnyard manure should be spread 

 over the ground and disced in before the ground is broken. After the 

 ground has been broken it should be disced and cross-disced and harrowed 

 until the soil is thoroughly pulverized. A thin coat of barn-yard manure 

 may be applied after breaking and before discing. If a commercial fertili- 

 zer is used it should be drilled in with a large wheat drill just before plant- 

 ing. After planting, the ground should be regularly cultivated each week 

 and after every rain even if there are no weeds. Cultivation should be 

 shallow and may continue with profit even into August. 



As soon as the tassels appear they should be removed from all barren, 

 weak and smutted stalks. Your seed for next year should be selected be- 

 tween October 10 and October 15, and should be preserved according to 

 Circular No. 2 from Purdue. 



References : (Free for the asking as long as the supply lasts.) 



1. Farmers' Bulletin Xo. 199, Washington, D. C. 



2. Farmers' Bulletin Xo. 272, Washington, D. C. 



3. Farmers' Bulletin X'^o. 81, Washington, D. C. 



4. Bulletin, Xo. no, Purdue University. 



5. Bulletin Xo. 82, University of Illinois, Urbana, 111. 



6. Bulletin Xo. 77 (April, 1904), Iowa Agricultural College, Ames, la. 



7. The Kansas Corn Book, State Board of Agriculture, Topeka, 

 Kansas. 



Corn Scoring Contest. 



1. Open to common school pupils (below the high school) who are 

 regularly enrolled and doing creditable work, as shown by the teacher's 

 certificate. 



2. Prizes will be announced later. 



