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Among the Farmers 
New York Youngsters Win Trip to Apple Show 
O NE of the events which took place 
on November 9, Marketing Day at 
the Eastern Apple Exposition and Fruit 
Show, was the awarding of prizes by 
Irving T. Bush, president of the State 
Chamber of Commerce, New York City, 
to the winning boys and girls in the 
essay contests on production, marketing 
and uses of apples. Eight boys and 
girls from the schools of up-State 
New York attended the show on this 
day and were presented with prizes. 
These contests were made possible by 
the cooperative efforts of the State 
Chamber of Commerce of New York 
City and the State Education Depart¬ 
ment. The Chamber of Commerce set 
aside $1,000, $600 of which was used 
as prizes for the winning essays and 
$400 was used in paying the expenses 
of the two highest winners in each 
class from their homes over the State 
to New York City and the Apple Show. 
The State Education Department in 
conducting this contest arranged four 
classes of essays for different groups 
boys and girls receiving their prizes 
from the hand of Mr. Bush. Left to 
right they are: Hubert Young of Jor¬ 
dan high school; Charles Hawkins of 
Victor; Irving Crandall of Albion agri¬ 
cultural department and Donald Ter- 
hune of State School of Agriculture, 
Cobleskill. In the front row are Mary 
McLouth, district school at Shortsville; 
Florence Anderson, department of 
homemaking of Mayville; Dorothy 
Griffing of the Newark, N. Y., home¬ 
making department and Cecila Burke, 
district school pupil at South Bristol. 
L. W, CRITTENDEN APPOINTED 
DIRECTOR AT COBLESKILL 
Lee W. Crittenden, formerly county 
agricultural agent of Albany County, 
N. Y., has been appointed director of 
the New York State School of Agricul¬ 
ture at Cobleskill to succeed Director 
H. B. Knapp, who has been appointed 
to the chair of director of the New 
Here are the boys and girls who were awarded pi’izes for the best 
essays on orcharding. They are, left to right: back row; Herbert 
Young, Charles Hawkins, Irving Crandall, Donald Terhune; front 
row; Mary McLouth, Florence Anderson, Dorothy Griffing, Cecila Burke. 
Irving T. Bush, President of the Chamber of Commerce, which donated 
the prizes, is on the extreme right 1 
of boys and girls studying agriculture 
and homemaking in the schools of the 
State. Class A was arranged for boys 
studying vocational agriculture in high- 
school departments and in State schools 
of agriculture, who had for their sub¬ 
ject, “Improving Methods of Marketing- 
Apples in New York.” Class B was for 
girls studying homemaking in high 
school departments and State schools 
of agriculture who were assigned the 
subject, “The Place of Eastern Grown 
Fruit and Fruit Products in the Fami¬ 
ly Diet.” Class C was open to boys en¬ 
rolled as junior project workers in agri¬ 
culture and Class D for giyls in junior 
projects in homemaking. These ele¬ 
mentary schoolboys wrote on “Improv¬ 
ing My Home Apple Orchard” and ,the 
girls the “Place of Apples in the Fami¬ 
ly Diet.” 
Twenty-eight prizes were given rang¬ 
ing from $50 for first prizes in Classes 
A and B to $5 for the last place in all 
classes. 
The interest taken in the contest was 
keen. This was especially so among 
the boys studying vocational agricul¬ 
ture in high-schools and State schools. 
In this class alone fully 500 papers 
were written. In the preparation which 
the pupils in all classes made in pre¬ 
paring themselves for the writing of 
these essays they gained much of edu¬ 
cational value concerning the produc¬ 
tion of apples,, the marketing of apples 
and the wider uses which should be 
made of apples in New York State 
homes. From this standpoint alone 
the contest was more than worth while. 
For the eight winners who were taken 
on the trip to New York City, the re¬ 
turn which they received on the trip 
should be an inspiration to them in un¬ 
dertaking further. worth-while ventures. 
In the accompanying picture taken 
at the Apple Show are shown these 
York State School of Agriculture at 
Farmingdale, L. I. 
Mr. Crittenden was born and reared 
on a farm in Oswego, Pa. where he at¬ 
tended the elementary and secondary 
schools. In 1909 he was graduated 
from.the State Normal School at Mans- 
ville, Pa.'-immediately entering the New 
York State College of Agi’iculture at 
Cornell from which in 1913 he received 
his B.i S. degree. After leaving Cornell 
he was appointed instructor in agricul¬ 
ture at the State Normal School at 
Cortland, N. Y. 
• In February 1917 he took charge of 
the Department of Agriculture at the 
Randolph, N. Y. High School. In 
March of the following year he became 
county agricultural agent of Middlesex 
County, N. J. and remained there for 
about a year and a half, coming to 
Albany County, N. Y. as county agent 
in October 1919. 
Mr. Crittenden’s experience fits him 
admirably for the position as director of 
the State School at Cobleskill, to which 
he was unanimously elected by the 
Board of Trustees at the School at their 
meeting in October. 
AGRICULTURAL TEACHERS TO 
CONVENE IN BUFFALO 
National and State leaders, directors, 
supervisors, teachers and others inter¬ 
ested in agricultural instruction will 
discuss their problems at sectional 
meetings held in connection with the 
17th annual convention of the National 
Society for Vocational Education to be 
held at Buffalo, New York December 
6, 7, and 8. 
The plans for the convention include 
a schedule of visits to nearby high 
schools where agriculture is taught as 
a part of the regular curriculum. 
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