Rural School Leaflet 



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represents a certain district. Ribbon prizes are given for the best ear of 

 dent com and the best ear of flint com in each county. Naturally, in 

 some counties the competition is much more close than in others, and, 

 consequently, the honor of winning is greater. From the fifty or more 

 ears of each type winning the county prize, the two best 

 ears for the State as a whole are selected. 



All of the prize ears are returned to the schools from 

 which they came, and for two years past the remaining ears 

 have been given away to farmers and to other interested 

 persons diiring Friday and Saturday of Farmers' Week. 

 Those taking the ears are asked to put them to some 

 practical use and to write to the schools that sent them 

 to the College. In this way the best ears return to the 

 rural districts of the State, and there is little or no real 

 loss to the State as a whole. Thus a school sending com 

 even though it does not win a prize, may feel that the 

 effort has not been wasted. If a letter shotdd be received 

 from some person in another section of the State who 

 has taken the ear of com, the teacher should not fail to 

 encourage the children to answer it because there is an 

 opportunity to give them an interest outside themselves 

 that may have far-reaching results. Letters have been 

 received from schools that have kept in touch with their 

 com in this way. Old and young have an interest in it. 



It is especially interesting to know whether any of the 

 com that comes to the College from the schools, is the 

 product of prize ears in years past. Last year there was one 

 instance of this kind, and the ear again took the county 

 prize. When such ears are sent, they shoiild be distin- 

 guished by a red ribbon and should be accompanied by a 

 letter describing their histor}'. 



By following the work that is done from year to year 



and by steadily developing and extending the interest 



and the study. Com Day will come to have a ver}' real 



and significant influence on the history of the com crop „ • ^• 



. T.- ^^ , ^ ^ , , , . , . , . . , State prize flint 



m New York State. Lnough has been said m this article com, Farmers' 



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to enable teachers to m.ake definite plans for Com Da}' on 

 December 3. The November leaflet for boys and girls 

 will contain further information designed to stimulate 

 the interest of the children, and it will also contain a com- 

 plete report of the schools represented in the com show held during 

 Farmers' Week in Februar}^ 191 5, and a list of the schools winning prizes. 



Week, 1915. 

 Sent by Dis- 

 trict 1 , Town 

 of Arcadia, 

 Wayne County 



