ENCOURAGEMENT OF DAIRYING PRIZE CONTESTS, 1914. 



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



Pkizes offered. 

 Class 1. 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) Open to practical dairymen who manage their own farms 

 and own five or more cows. Prizes aggregating $2,640, or $660 

 in each district, were oft'ered. 



Additional Prizes. — Sweepstakes prize for entire State, $100; 

 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). Prizes aggregating $264, or $66 

 in each district, were oft'ered. 



Additional Prize. — Sweepstakes ribbon for entire State. 



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

 age, — employees on farms eligible in (a). Prizes aggregating 

 $160, or $40 in each district, were offered. 



Additional Prize. — Sweepstakes ribbon for entire State. 



Class 2. 

 Prize of $100 for the best system of dairy-farm accounting 

 was offered. Competition open to the world. 



Class 3. 

 Prizes for systems of dairy-farm accounting in actual opera- 

 tion. Competition open to farms eligible in Class 1 (o). Three 

 prizes aggregating $200 were offered. 



