Rural School Leaflet 



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lined in the Cornell Rural vSchool Leaflet on agricultural contests. The 

 master of each grange pledged himself to provide fifteen dollars as a first 

 prize to the boy or the girl who would grow the best peck of potatoes in 

 compliance with the rules and regulations, such money to be used to 

 defray the expenses of the contestant to Farmers' Week at Ithaca. 



Nineteen boys entered the contest; seventeen continued to the end. 

 One was disqualified for good reasons, and one had his potatoes washed 

 from the ground by a heavy fall of rain. 



During the growing period of the potatoes. Farm Bureau Agent Mark- 

 ham and myself visited the several contestants, went with them to their 

 plots, and discussed the subject of potato growing in general. 



On October 30, at East Aurora High School, teachers, pupils, and 

 patrons of the several schools of this district assembled with the contestants 



A I work in his potato patch. This lad ivas successful in the competition in the Third 



Supervisory District, Erie County 



to participate in the exercises held in connection with the exhibit of the 

 potatoes grown by the seventeen boys. The potatoes were judged by 

 Mr. E. V. Hardenburg of Cornell University, and five prize awards were 

 made as follows : 



Under the jurisdiction of the East Aurora Grange, Glenn Foss of 

 District No. i, Aurora, was awarded first prize; under the jurisdiction 

 of the South Wales Grange, Harry Adams of District No. 8, Aurora, was 

 awarded first prize; under the jurisdiction of the Griffins Mills Grange, 

 Harold Grover of District No. 5, Aurora, was awarded first prize; and 



