IV. BOYS AND GIRLS' COMPETITIONS. 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 



1. Any Farmers' Institute desiring to organize these competitions must notify 

 the Soil and Crop Instructor. Live Stock Branch, Department of Agriculture, 

 Victoria, and submit the individual entries on or before May 10th. (Notices 

 received later than May 10th cannot be considered.) 



2. Any institute deciding to organize a Boys and Girls' Competition shall 

 appoint a committee composed of three of their members and the President and 

 Secretary of the institute, who shall make and carry out the necessary arrange- 

 ments for the holding of the competition. 



3. No institute may hold more than one competition within its district in any 

 one year. 



There must be not less than six Imixi-fiilc competitors in each competition. 

 Only one entry will be allowed each competitor. 



4. Competitors must not be under twelve or over eighteen years of age on May 

 10th. 1915, the date on which the entries close. 



">. The plots entered for competition must !>< t'.ract1i/ 1-10 acre in area (10 square 

 roils. 4X4 square yards, or 4.3.~><; square feet). A margin of l 1 /^ feet should be allowed 

 all round the plot, but this margin should be included in the 1-10 acre. 



<;. All competitors within the same institute district must use the same variety 

 of potato. The variety sball be decided by 'the committee appointed by the institute. 



The Department suggests that, wherever possible, the Burbauk or Carmen No. 1 

 should be grown. 



7. An agent or representative of the Department of Agriculture will inspect _ 

 and score the growing crop of each competitor. Whenever possible, this scoring 

 will be done when the potatoes entered in the Field-crop Competitions are being 

 .judged. The same score-card and method of judging will be used. 



x. A disinterested person (school-teacher, clergyman, or Justice of the Peace), 

 not a relative of any of the competitors, and appointed by the institute committee, 

 shall be present at the measuring of the plot, the sorting of the potatoes, and the 

 weighing of the crop. This person must sign the certificate attached to the financial 

 statement of each competitor within the institute district. 



;. Blank forms for reports will be supplied by the Department of Agriculture. 



10. Each competitor must do all the work himself or herself, except that the 

 girls and younger boys may be assisted with such work as ploughing, etc. 



11. An accurate financial statement, showing expenses, returns, and profits, 

 should be made by each competitor. The financial report must include rent of 

 land, and cost of labour, seed, manure, spraying, etc. Reports must reach the Soil 

 and Crop Instructor. Department 'of Agriculture, not later than November 1st. 



12. Scale of charges to be used by all competitors: 



Rent of laud $10 per acre. 



Each horse 20 cents per hour. 



Each man 30 



Each boy or girl 15 



stable manure $2 per two-horse load 



delivered on the land. 

 Each irrigation .*. . . 20 cents. 



Provincial Seed Fairs will be held at New Westminster and at Armstrong 

 during the winter of 1915-16 on a date to be announced later. All competitors 

 who exhibit at the Provincial Seed Fairs from the Kamloops Farmers' Institute 

 and other institutes east of Kamloops will compete at Armstrong, and from Nicola 

 and west of Nicola at New Westminster. 



XOTE. Give actual cost of fertilizer, seed, spray material, etc. 



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