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Show CONTEST PROMOTES BEAUT I FI CATION OF FARMS AND GARDENS The beautification of the exterior of the farm home has seemed so important im-portant in several States that bankers bank-ers and business men have offered substantial prizes for the best improvements im-provements made. The Rural Women, of Lincoln County, Colorado, started an improvement contest sponsored by the county banking association and the county home-demonstration agent. The contestants were divided into two groups those in a 1-year contest and those who expected to take three years to accomplish certain improvements. improve-ments. Awards were made on a basis of general appearance, condition of house, outbuildings, and fences, plantings plant-ings of flowers, shrubs, trees and vines, and even the vegetable gardens: Among the suggestions made for the improvements the Lincoln County agent mentions the following in reporting re-porting to the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture: "Clean: Back yard, front yard, vacant va-cant lots, porches, garages, stockyards, roads, outbuildings. "Plant: Trees, shrubbery, grass plots, vegetable garden, flower garden, flower boxes. "Paint: Houses, fences, outbuildings, screens, porches. "Miscellaneous: Rubbish piles burned, burn-ed, insect breeding places destroyed, fences repaired', screens repaired, porches and steps repaired, junk and papers properly disposed of, refuse re-fuse cans provided, old signs removed, shrubbery and trees trimmed." These suggestions iwere widely circulated in the county in the form of entry blanks for the contest, and many who did not actually enroll in the competition were stimulated to adopt one or more of the "clean-up" hints as a matter of pride and community com-munity consciousness. |