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boy's and girl's exhibits. These will be offered for the best corn in the four 

 classes: Flint, dent, sweet and pop. Moreover, the corn which you 

 boys and girls enter will be allowed to come in direct competition with 

 that of the farmers themselves, and every boy and girl thus stands a 

 chance of winning the big prizes of the main show. An exhibit may thus 

 win two prizes and also help the school to win a banner. The list of prizes 

 will be announced in the next issue of the Leaflet. No person will be 

 allowed to enter more than one ten-ear exhibit. In order that nobody's 

 feelings may be hurt, if there are any boys or girls whose ten ears of 

 corn were not quite good enough to send as a part of the club exhibit, 

 they may be sent on and will be allowed to enter the competition for the 

 individual prizes. These must, however, be kept separate from the 

 club exhibits. Only those clubs will be allowed to compete • for the 

 banners which send us five ten-ear exhibits. 



Other prizes, which will be announced later, will be given for the best 

 ten letters sent me on the subject: "How we celebrated Corn Day 

 in our school", and for the five best essays on any other subject which 

 concerns corn. Prizes will also be given for. the five best drawings 

 of corn. 



You will be glad to know that we have some Farm Boys' and Girls' 

 Club buttons with a little crow on them. Every member of every club 

 will be entitled to wear one of these buttons as soon as the club 

 does something which shows it is really alive. We will give them 

 first to the clubs which celebrate "Corn Day" or to those clubs which 

 send something for the Cornell Corn Show, February 22-27. We 

 hope your club will soon win the buttons. 



Do you know John Greenleaf Whittier's; poem "Snowbound"? Do 

 you remember what he says about the witch fires? 



"Under the tree, 

 When the fire outdoors burns merrily 

 There the witches are making tea." 



If you want to see the witch fires you must go to the window on a 

 dark night when it isn't snowing but when the wind moans and makes 

 spooky kinds of noises round the corner of the house. Then if you are 

 very quiet and while Father is reading and Mother is sewing by the 

 light of the lamp on the table, and while the fire in the stove or fire- 

 place burns warm and red, you will, if you look very sharp out of 

 the window on the snow, see the witch fires dancing. Look sharp! 



Yours for the dancing witch fires, 



MILTON PRATT JONES 



