Klral School Leafli^t. 781 



Dollars will probably be offered in each county in the following way : 

 For the best individual exhibit at a school fair. First Frize, Ten Dollars ; 

 Second Frize. I-"ive Dollars ; Third Frize, Three Dollars ; Fourth Frize, 

 Two Dollars ; the next five prizes One Dollar each. For the best club 

 exhibit at the county fair, Ten Dollars, First Frize; l*"ive Dollars, 

 Second Prize ; the remaining Ten Dollars for the best and second best 

 individual exhibits at the county fair. From the exhibits at school 

 and county fair both individually and as organizations, will be selected 

 the best to be sent to the State Fair, where all the different counties 

 w'th their clubs will Ijc represented and compete for the big prizes to 

 be cfi"ered later. 



Each boy or club should decide just what particular crop is to be 

 grown as for instance, corn, beans, peas, potatoes, oats, wheat, rye, roots, 

 and other farm crops ; selected tomatoes, celery, radish, melon, and other 

 vegetables. Fe sure to get the very best strains of the crop selected. 

 Flowers will greatly improve your garden. Use your own taste in 

 this. 



For those interested in raising poultry a special cash prize will be 

 offered for the best exhibit at the school, county, and State fairs. De- 

 tails may be had on application. Bulletins descriptive of these different 

 crops and comi)etitions may be had on application. 



\\'hen you have decidetl on the particular crop that you would like to 

 grow, send for seeds at once to the New York State College of Agricul- 

 ture, enclosing five cents in stamps to pay for the postage, and to apply 

 what is left on the price of the seeds. Full directions as to how to 

 plant the seeds will be sent with each package. By getting seeds in 

 this way you will get some of the purest strains of corn, potatoes, 

 wheat, anrl the other crops desired, with which you ought to l)e able 

 to produce more to the acre than you could do with ordinary seed. 

 Remember that you are to become good farmers. To do so you must 

 use the very best kind of seed available. Perhaps you will be able to 

 increase the amount per acre of some of the different crops grown in 

 your neighborhood. 



You may ask what there is to flo after you have put your seed into' 

 the ground, while waiting for cultivation. Suppose that you plan some 

 meetings once in a while at one another's houses, and on such an occasion 

 the father of one of the boys might give his experience with some par- 

 ticular crop with which he has had success. If your teacher would ar- 

 range to have two or three school clubs in your vicinity meet, we would 

 arrange to have some one from the College meet with you and help you 

 with some of your problems. 



