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prizes. The president or secretary of your Fair Association will send 

 to you or to your school a Premium list for school work if you will write 

 to him. I know one lad who won $1^ the first time he ever exhibited 

 anything at a County Fair. 



I do not like to say good-bye for four months. A few of you I shall see. 

 More — I hope many more — will write and I shall try to answer. There 

 are great glorious days ahead of you, and I will want to hear about 

 them all. You will be having adventtires with Spike and Bud in the 

 swimming hole. You will get the cows in the barn late, unless you take 

 care not to stop too long gathering spearmint leaves or sweetflag buds. 

 You will take the milk to the station or factory, perhaps. It is twice 

 a day in summer, isn't it? And you do not know whether it is better 

 going mornings when the mist is still upon the meadows and the bobolink 

 keeps flying ahead of you from post to post, or whether it is better 

 coming back rainy evenings when the lights of the houses look very 

 dim and far away and you can hear the drip of the rain in the trees, 

 whenever the empty cans stop rattling a moment. 



The long haymaking days are coming, and in their twilight with 

 fireflies all around and crickets chirping and katydids calling, you can 

 lie back against a haycock and look up. 



Your friend, 



Milton Pratt Jones 



AN OPPORTUNITY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS 



C. S. Wilson 



This year the State Fair Commission offers the prizes mentioned 

 below to the boys and girls who are interested in fruit growing. It is 

 the first time such an offer has been made and the readers of the Leaflet 

 are urged to make such entries as they can. The State Fair will be 

 held at Syracuse about the second week in September. 



Section 17. — Boys' and Girls' Collections. (Open to all boys and girls under 



16 years of age in New York State.) 



For the best arranged and most extensive, perfect, and 

 varied exhibit of orchard products, collected and ex- 

 hibited by any Boys and Girls' Club or Rural School $20.00 $10.00 $5.00 



For the best display of fruit collected and exhibited 



by any boy or girl 10 . 00 5 . 00 2.50 



Single Plates 



Best plate of apples $2 .00 $1 . 50 $1 .00 



Best plate of pears 2 . 00 i . 50 i . 00 



Best plate of peaches 2 . 00 i . 50 t 00 



Best plate of grapes 2 . 00 i . 50 1 . 00 



