THE CORN LADY 45 



Wheaton, Iowa, December 20, 1910 



FATHER DEAR: Our school did win the 

 trophy for having the best work from our 

 district at the County Farmers' Institute. 

 When we heard it, we marched out and ran 

 up our school flag. Everyone helped, for 

 all the entries that mothers, fathers, big 

 brothers and sisters and hired men made, 

 counted; as well as those the school children 

 made. 



A hired man from one of our farms 

 showed the best corn in the hired men's class. 

 I asked him where he learned to know good 

 corn, and he said he had learned it reading 

 out of those bulletins Jim brought home from 

 school with him. 



We had a great many things in our ex- 

 hibit: Aprons, cushion covers, buttonholes, 

 hemming, bread, cookies, cakes, farm devices, 

 model chicken houses, a model country 

 schoolhouse and grounds, wheat, oats, pota- 

 toes and corn. 



Florence's apron was the best in the 

 county, and there were hundreds entered. 



