TWENTIETH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART II 97 



The competitions were only a part of the program for the boys' and 

 girls' club members at the fair grounds. The boys' club camp had a reg- 

 ular daily schedule, somewhat suggestive of a military regime. The girls, 

 at a camp with the attractive title of Pine Tree Lodge, had a similar and 

 only slightly less vigorous daily schedule. One interesting sidelight en the 

 perennial difference between the two groups was given in the posted pro- 

 grams for the day. On the boys' schedule was the significant notation: 

 "6:50 — Morning ablutions," which we presume the leader translated into 

 boy language. With a confidence that may or may not have been mis- 

 placed, the girls' program took the high moral ground that a girl does not 

 need to be told to wash her face, and so refused to mention the matter 

 at all. 



The boys and girls were given something better than a chance to see the 

 fair in a haphazard fashion. Groups were formed under adult leaders to go 

 thru certain buildings in search of definite information, and the trips were 

 talked over on the return. The most ambitious sight-seeing trip was that 

 which one hundred and thirty of the boys and girls took thru Des Moines. 



The girls had less drama about their contests than the boys, but man- 

 aged to draw some very attentive audiences for the demonstration team 

 work. The Pottawattamie county team, from Council Bluffs, was awarded 

 first place after the judges had watched over a dozen teams show their 

 skill during four successive days. The Eddyville team, Wapello county, 

 was second, and the Dayton team, Webster county, was third. 



Perhaps the feature of the greatest educational value in the whole pro- 

 gram was the stock and corn judging contests between teams from the 

 different counties. Polk, Hamilton and Johnson counties won the first 

 three places. Vernon Maple, of Orillia; N. Alfred Hill, of Williams, and 

 Edward Menough, of Grimes, took the first three places for individual 

 work. 



Polk county's team was made up of Edward Menough, of Grimes, Mer- 

 win Smith, Des Moines, and De Wight Kinsey, of Grimes. On the in- 

 dividual scores, Menough took third; Smith, fifth; and Kinsey, eleventh. 



Menough had competed before in judging contests, but it was the other 

 boys' first attempt. Smith and Kinsey are seventeen and Menough a 

 year older. All are farm-raised boys and all expect to go on to Ames for 

 an agricultural education. The hundred and fifty dollar scholarship given 

 to the third-place winner and the one hundred dollar scholarship to the 

 fifth will help on that. 



The Polk county team was the product of some severe preliminary com- 

 petition and training. Eighteen boys attended the first try-out and seven 

 of these survived the first eliminations. From these seven four were final- 

 ly chosen. As preliminary practice for the fair this team spent three 

 days and a half visiting Polk county breeders and cultivating the judging 

 eye by practice. 



The climax of the week for the boys and girls was a big parade that 

 was staged on the race track Wednesday afternoon. Flags and banners 

 and floats were in evidence and the more tractable of the beeves were led 



