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Show PRIZE FOR CHAMPION 1922 CANNING GIRLS Trip to Europe With All Expenses Paid Is Prize to Be Awarded to Most Efficient. A free trip to Europe, with all ex. penses paid, Is the prize for the four champion canning girls of the United States in 1922, which has been announced an-nounced by the national committee of Boys and Girls' Club Work for girls' canning clubs. Boys and Girls' Club Work is an Important Im-portant project In the program of the American Farm Bureau federation, and the contest is open to all girls who are members of the canning clubs. This is the largest prize ever offered to the farm girls of America. Fifty-five Fifty-five thousand rural girls who are members of the girls' clubs conducted by agricultural colleges, the United States Department of Agriculture cooperating, co-operating, are competing in the contest. con-test. After the local, county and state elimination contests are held, there will be five interstate or sectional contests, the winners of which will compete for final national honors at Chicago during the week of the International Inter-national Live Stock exposition. At the final contest the honors and prize trip will be awarded on the basis of efficiency effi-ciency in demonstrating canning methods, meth-ods, in judging canned products and by the home canning record. The American Committee for Devastated Devas-tated France is providing the prizn trip for the four girl winners and for the three women leaders who will train the winning teams. The unit will leave the United States about June 1, 1923, and will be gone abroad for three months, eight weeks of which will be spent in canning demonstration work in tha devastated region in co-operation with the French Department ol Agriculture and in visiting many places of Interest in our sister republic. The remaining months will be spent In visiting some of the other countries of Europe. The ptfrpose of the contest, as announced, an-nounced, is to encourage thrift In the conservation of all available products during the season of abundance ; to emphasize, through canning, the importance im-portance of a well-rounded diet that villi make for farm and rural home efficiency; to stimulate a greater interest inter-est In canning clubs, and to determine prize winners worthy of a trip to Europe Eu-rope and capable of demonstrating canning to the French people. The 55,000 canning club girls are a part of 000,000 farm boys and girls in the clubs demonstrating the better farm and home practices under the supervision of the agricultural colleges col-leges and the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture. It is estimated that the canning club girls will prepare and preserve SiiT.l.tMM) worth of vegetables and fruits this year. |