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tions," and "What They Can and Cannot 

 Accomplish." A lady from the State Col- 

 lege spoke on "Modern Improvements for 

 Country Homes." It was all very good. 



And the exhibit of course, we expected 

 it to be a grand exhibit ; but it surpassed our 

 greatest expectations. When we saw the blue 

 ribbon on Carl's potatoes that he had not 

 planted until so late that we thought they 

 would freeze; the blue ribbon, too, on Max's 

 single ear with its beautiful straight rows 

 the best out of one hundred and twenty ears ; 

 another prize ribbon floating with the flag 

 on the flagstaff of our model country school- 

 ground; the red ribbon on Floyd's handy 

 farm knots and the honor given to Florence's 

 apron that we were all so proud of, we were 

 just sure it was the most marvelous exhibit 

 we had ever even dreamed of. 



There was a corn house, where the bushels 

 were exhibited from the boys who had tried 

 in the acre yield contest. Standing near the 

 corn house w r as the happy, little white-headed 

 twelve year old Anton, who had succeeded 

 in raising the largest number of bushels to 

 the acre and would get a prize of fifty dol- 

 lars from a bank interested in boys. Which 

 fifty dollars Anton told me he was going to 



