ENCOURAGEMENT OF DAIRYING PRIZE CONTESTS, 1915. 



p. M. HARWOOD, GENERAL AGENT, DAIRY BUREAU. 



Prizes offered. 



Clean Milk Contest. 



Cleanliness determined by sediment test. State divided into 

 four districts, viz., western, central, northeastern and south- 

 eastern. Prizes offered in each district: — 



(a) Competition open to dairies of five or more cows in this 

 Commonwealth, where the owners are practical farmers super- 

 intending their own dairies. One hundred and forty prizes 

 aggregating $3,440, or 35 prizes aggregating $860 in each 

 district, were offered. 



Additional Prizes. — For best individual showing in State, 

 sweepstakes certificate; district with largest number of entries, 

 $125; district making best showing of clean milk, $100. 



(6) Junior prizes offered to persons under eighteen years of 

 age, — sons, daughters, proteges or actual employees of the 

 owners of farms eligible in (a). Thirty-two prizes aggregating 

 $416, or 8 prizes aggregating $104 in each district, were offered. 



Additional Prize. — For best individual showing in State, 

 sweepstakes certificate. 



(c) Hired help prizes offered to persons over eighteen years 

 of age, — employees on farms eligible in (a) . Twenty-four 

 prizes aggregating $240, or 6 prizes aggregating $60 in each 

 district, were offered. 



Additional Prize. — For best individual showing in State, 

 sweepstakes certificate. 



Results. 

 In the western district (a), there were 83 entries; (6), 14 entries; 

 and (c), 11 entries. The winners were as follows: — 



