Show AS substitute FOR FOOTBALL writer suggests that plowing matchet matches would oe be advisable A plowing match will help to interest boys boya in farming and perhaps be ba quite as profitable in the end as a football match ai A plowing match la Is managed by measuring oft off equal tracts to be plowed by each contestant the time being noted at the start and a limited time allowed for finishing the track the contest la 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 cf land plowed within the time limit after which suitable prizes are award ed cd stock judging contests butter making contests and butter scoring contests will allada all add interest and a desire to excel on the part of the pupil it a boy Is of a mechanical turn tum give him an introduction to farm mechanics chanice cs experiments showing the influence of grade on the draft of a farm wagon may be made with a simple apparatus the boy could construct himself it can also be easily shown how draft la is influenced by the width of tire as well as by the size of tho the wagon wheel also tile the direction of line of 0 draft and its influence on tho the draft of the wagon lot let a boy with a mechanical ch anical head male make an apparatus for demonstrating the principles of even ers or lot let him make a working model of a farm pump thus in various ways it Is possible to show the boy who thinks he be known it all that he still has something to learn and to show the plodding boy that th ereIs much beside drudgery on the farm if he will but open hla his eyes southern workman |