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ELEMENTARY AGRICULTURE 
If you are showing a few ears of corn, along with those 
of several neighbors, does it not give you a feeling of 
pride to have a judge pronounce your exhibit better than 
all the others? If you are placed second or third, is there 
not a desire to improve your corn so that yours may be 
pronounced the best during the next contest? Compe¬ 
tition is not only the life of business, but it is the life of 
a school. If we feel the need of improving our minds and 
Fig. 13.—An inexpensive school display. 
of sharpening our observation it is well to try to com¬ 
pare our work with that of other people. Those things 
which we think are very good may be very poor com¬ 
pared with others of that class. 
Parental Interest.—Do your fathers and mothers 
know what you are doing at school? Many of them 
depend upon the products which you are studying to 
provide food and the necessities of life. They immedi¬ 
ately become interested in the improvement of the yield 
