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Show Junior Farmers Enter National Production Contest Two Iron county Junior farmers farm-ers are entered in the ninth annual an-nual $6,000 Production-Marketing contest of the National Junior Vegetable Growers Association, according to an announcement today by E. Milton Andersen of Utah State Agriculture college, NJVGA adult leader in Utah. Local competitors, seeking the nation's Junior vegetable growing grow-ing championship and a share of the cash awards and scholarships scholar-ships provided by A and P. Food Stores, are Clair Rogers, and William Rogers, both of New-castle. New-castle. The program is designed to help young farmers develop new and more efficient methods for producing and marketing vegetables. vege-tables. It offers a $500 award for the national champion, four $200 regional awards, thirty-three thirty-three $100 sectional awards and four $10 awards in each state. Winners will be determined by a Judging board of college professors pro-fessors and officials of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. They will be announced during the fifteenth annual NJVGA convention conven-tion at Washington, D. C, In December. De-cember. In announcing local NJVGA contestants, Anderson pointed out that the contest alms to encourage en-courage further development of this county's agricultural resources. re-sources. Last year vegetable crops valued at approximately $26,000 were marketed from local farms, he said. |