Show AS substitute FOR FOOTBALL writer suggests suggest that plowing matches would be advisable A plowing match will help to later inter et est hoys boys in farming and perhaps bo be quite as profitable in the end as a football match A plowing match li in managed by measuring off equal tracts to he be plowed by each contestant the time being noted at the start and a limited time allowed tor for finishing the track the contest to Is to be judged by the straightness of the furrows the evenness of the furrows both as to depth and width and the amount of land arid plowed within the time lime limit after which suitable ore awarded stock judging contests butter making contests and butter moring contests will all add interest and a deslie to excel on the part of the pupil it if a boy la Is of a mechanical turn glee ghe him an introduction to farm mechanics experiments showing the tha in fluence of grade on the draft of a farm wa wagon gon may be made with mth a simple apparatus the boy could construct him self it can also be easily shown how bow draft is influenced by the width of tire as well as by the size of the wagon wheel also the direction of liuo hue of draft and its influence on the draft of the tha A wagon agon let a boy with a mechanical char ch anical lical head make an apparatus fox foi demonstrating the principles ot of even era or let him make a model of a farm arm pump thus in various ways it is possible to show the boy who thinka he knows know it all that he still has something to learn and to show the plodding boy that there Is much beside drudgery on the farm tann it if he will but open his eyes southern workman |