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Show nationwide Essay Contest Is Announced Herschel D. Newsom, Master of the National Grange, has announced announ-ced at nationwide essay contest on "Conservation Farming for Abundant Abun-dant Living", with $10,000 in prizes offered by the American Plant Food Council,'' for young men and women through 20 years of age, beginning January 1 and ending March 31, 1952. Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan will be chairman of the national board of judges for the contest. Other members of the board are Dr. Hugh H. Bennett, former Chief of the Soil Conservation Conserva-tion Service; Miss Lois M. Clark, assistant director, Division of Rural Service, National Education Assn.,; Dr. R. Frank Poole, president of the Association of Land-Grant Colleges Col-leges and Universities; Dr. W. T. Spanton, chief of the Agricultural Education Service, U. S. Office of Education; Miss Jennie Williams president of the National Home Demonstration Council; and Dr. M. L. Wilson, Director of Extension work, USDA. Mr. Newsom, in a joint statement state-ment with Paul T. Truitt, president o the American Plant Food Council, Coun-cil, said that "objectives of the contest are to stimulate new, intensive in-tensive thought and aggressive action ac-tion looking toward a continuation and improvement of means and methods emphasizing maximum ec onomical production while at the same time stressing the conservation conserva-tion of our natural resources." Prospective contestants are urged urg-ed to enroll in the contest through their nearest subordinate Grange where full details are available. The contestants residing in the following fol-lowing states can enter the contest con-test and submit their essays through their county agent, vocational voca-tional agriculture teacher, or Soil Conservation Service representative North Dakota, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Kentucky, Mississippi, Miss-issippi, Louisianna, Alabama, Florida, Flor-ida, Georgia. I The following prizes are offered: I National - - first prize, $1,000 cash; J second, $500 third, $400, four, fifth and sixth, each $300. State awards wiU be First prize, $100 cash; second, sec-ond, $50 and third, $25. Contest judges explain that spec ial consideration should be given to the practical application of the subject to the soils of the contestant's contest-ant's community and that sources of information, other than actual experience, must be credited by the author. Essays may not be more than 800 words and will be judged on the basis of 40 points (or practical application of subject sub-ject matter, 30 points for effectiveness effect-iveness of presentation, 20 points 'or originality, and 10 points for spelling, punctuating, and grammatical gram-matical correctness. |