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can give the largest number of corn recipes in a period of 

 five minutes. 



All of these contests should be judged in general on 

 speed, skill, condition of finished product, accuracy, etc. 

 (See Circular 104, Bureau of Plant Industry, United States 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, for further 

 instruction and score-cards on all corn contests.) 



8. Corn Demonstrations 



"Demonstrations" are now becoming common in ex- 

 tension work. The purpose of a demonstration is to teach 

 some definite and well-known truth, by means of 

 the concrete example. While an experiment seeks to dis- 

 cover a truth concerning the work of the farm, a demon- 

 stration seeks to show others how to put this truth into 

 practise. 



Demonstrations by the school. Such demonstrations 

 as the following may be conducted by the school for spe- 

 cial exercises, evening programs, club meetings, district, 

 county or state fairs, or special farm and club festivals : 



Demonstrations in the preparation of a seed corn test 

 box, a rag-doll tester, and how to make the test. 



Demonstrations of how to make a seed tray, a seed dry- 

 ing rack, and how to hang or place the seed corn. 



Seed corn stringing demonstration. 



Field demonstrations in plowing, cultivation, seed selec- 

 tion, hand pollenizing, etc. 



Home economics 'demonstration showing how to make 

 corn food products, valuable dishes, such as hominy, corn 

 mush, bread, etc. 



9. Corn Club Work 



A great many thousand farm boys and girls are 

 now enrolled in agricultural and home-economic clubs, most 



