Springville Herald | 1950-03-23 | Page 6 | Vegetable Contest to be Conducted

Vegetable Contest 4 I To Be Conducted Opening of the 1950 production- l marketing contest of the National Junior Vegetable Growers Association As-sociation was announced here to- i day by Professor E. Milton An-I An-I derson of Utah State Agricultural College's Department of Vege- table Crops, who is regional chairman chair-man for NJVGA. The contest offers of-fers teen-age tillers of the soil more than 200 agricultural scholarships scholar-ships and awards for doing a superior su-perior job of growing and marketing market-ing vegetables. In announcing the assiciation's tenth annual contest, Professor Anderson pointed out that all Beehive Bee-hive State boys and girls from 12 through 21 are eligible to compete com-pete for the $6,000 in awards A & P Pood Stores provides for this project each year. Utah youths won three state awards in the 1949 contest. Professor Anderson explained that the contest is essentially an educational program designed to further the use of more modern, efficient and profitable methods of growing and selling vegetables. i