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contest, if one is held in your district. It will give you a new interest, 

 you will learn much about the thing that you are growing or making, and 

 you will take pride in your exhibit. Do not set out to win a prize, but 

 determine to do your very best work and the prize will come if the 

 work is worthy of it. We hope to see, within a few years, many thou- 

 sands of boys and girls spending a part of their vacation in contest 

 work. It will give you a clean, wholesome occupation and a spirit of 

 honest competition. Ask your district superintendent about contests 

 when he visits your school again. 



A POTATO QUESTION ' 



Editors' note. — In the January leaflet we asked six questions on the 

 potato. Many girls and boys have written to Mr. Tuttle answering these 

 questions. They are usually answered correctly with the exception of 

 the sixth question, which asks: "To what does the 'eyebrow' corre- 

 spond?" If you will place a potato on the desk, stem end down, you 

 will see that the eyebrow is below the eye in each case. You know that 

 the eye corresponds to the bud of the stem above ground. You know 

 that a bud usually appears in the axil of a leaf. The eyebrow of the potato 

 corresponds, then, to a ? 



THE FARMERS' WEEK CORN EXHIBIT 



Editors' note. — Farmers' Week is over. The exhibit of corn from rural 

 schools was most successful. There were 440 schools represented, each 

 by a single ear of corn that had been selected at the Com Day Exhibit 

 held in the school on December 6, 19 12. These ears were sent to us by 

 mail, many schools taking advantage of the parcel post. The 440 schools 

 are located in 46 different counties, and the exhibit represented approxi- 

 mately 6,600 girls and boys. The corn was judged by three professors 

 in the College of Agriculture, who selected the best ear of flint and the 

 best ear of dent corn in the exhibit. 



The best ear of flint corn was sent by School District No. 7, Town of 

 White Creek, Washington county; Miss Bertha Frisbie, teacher; Mr. 

 F. H. Rich, District Superintendent. 



The best ear of dent corn was sent by School District No. 2, Town of 

 Springport, Cayuga county; Miss Margaret E. Melvin, teacher; Mrs. 

 A. M. Kent, District Superintendent. 



A prize will be sent to each of these schools. 



A full and complete account of the exhibit, together with a list of all 

 the schools represented, will be published in the first leaflet for boys and 

 girls next fall. We hope that every rural school will plan to hold Corn Day 

 on December 5, 19 13, and will send us a prize ear of corn for our next 

 Farmers' Week exhibit. 



