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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



[Pub. Doc. 



Household management : — Hours. 



Table setting, 5 



Table serving, 5 



Washing dishes, .......... 10 



Drying dishes and arranging in cupboard, 10 



Sweeping and dusting, 20 



Care of one's room, . 20 



Washing windows, 15 



Cleaning floor, 10 



Cleaning and filling lamps, 15 



Building fire, 10 



Blacking stove, 10 



Assisting with washing, ........ 15 



Ironing, 20 



Assisting in care of children, 15 



Handwork : — 



Sewing, darning or mending, ....... 20 



Basket work, caning, crocheting, knitting or weaving, . . 20 



Total, 



500 



Score Card. 

 Quality of work as shown by exhibits, . 

 Skill shown in bread making or canning. 

 Quality of work as shown by inspection. 

 Quality of work as shown by reports, . 

 Story of experience, .... 



30 

 20 

 20 

 20 

 10 



100 



Rules and Regulations. 



1. The contestant must be between ten and eighteen years of age at 

 the date of the beginning of the contest. 



2. Each contestant must agree to do all the work without any outside 

 help. All the work must be done by the member. Mothei-s or friends 

 may advise and supervise, but must not do any of the work. 



3. Each contestant must check a total of one hundred and fifty hours 

 of work selected from the five hundred given above. At least seventy- 

 five hours of work must be selected from the cookery. 



4. Each local club must designate by vote either bread making, forty 

 hours, or canning, forty hours, as a common activity which all the 

 members must participate in. Either the bread making or the canning, 

 whichever is selected, will receive special direction by the State adviser, 

 and will be judged at a club meeting. The other activities will be 



