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Show 4-H Club Winners Names Two prominent Cache county j 4-H club members were among the j 10 state winners of trips to Chicago, 111., ui recognition ol j ! outstanding work during the past year, according to Reuben Hansen Han-sen and Amy R. Kersley, Extension Exten-sion wokers in charge of club work in the county. Arland Olson, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Olson of Smith-field, Smith-field, .was declared the outstanding outstand-ing dairy club member and won the' trip sponsored by Sego, Borden Bor-den and Morning Milk companies of the Cache Valley Dairy association. asso-ciation. He has been a club member five years, was named champion Hol-stein-Friesian member of Utah in 1942, now owns one purebred and two heifers at $490- Milk receipts this year were $320.94 and he also assisted his parents with a two-acre victory garden. The other winner Is Calvin Funk, 17, son of Mr" and Mrs. Le Roy Funk of Richmond. He is winner of the rural electrification award given by - Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company. com-pany. He is a member and assistant as-sistant leader of a dairy club, has applied electricity to dairy and other farm enterprises and also carries garden and sugar beet projects. They will leave December 1 for the twenty -third national 4-H con-, gress to be held December 3-6 in Chicago, Illinois, As a climax to 'national 4-H club achievement week dn Cache county, the club leaders listed yearly achievements as follows: Sixty one clubs were organized and led by 96 volunteer leaders. Total value of all 4-H agricultural projects, including sales and premiums, prem-iums, totaled $30,673. Club mem- I bers purchased and sold $13,660 in war bonds and stamps, collected 24,253 pounds of scrap, contributed contrib-uted to the milk weed pod collection col-lection and participated ' in many other wartime activities. Largest enrollment was in cloth-j cloth-j ing clubs where 166 girls made 544 new articles, removedel ; 108 articles, and cleaned and repaired 398 articles. Food projects attracted attract-ed 104 girls who prepared 2827 separate dishes, 1844 meals and canned 3341 quarts of fruit, vegetables vege-tables and meat. Home furnishings, a new project this year, drew the attention of 44 girls who made 354 home furnishings furn-ishings articles and improved 112 rooms, Miss Kearsley reported. , Dairying was the most popular project . with boys, according to Mr. Hansen. Eighty-six boys and girls owned 98 dairy animals, 52 boys and girls fattended and sold 102 beef animals, seven boys were enrolled in poultry projects, raising rais-ing 450 birds and eight boys and girls raised and released 705 pheasants, pthers had projects in sugar beets, beans, sheep, hogs and gardening. |