Show FRENCH A FARMERS X X GET PRIZES PRIZE S rewarded for efforts to restore nestore farms to prewar state or fifty farmers are now owners of agricultural implements donated by two american women darls fifty farmers from tile cantons of aulzy and coucy chucy in the devastated va area of the ainne aisne northern 0 france ance tire today the owners of agricultural implements given thorn them as prizes tl by miss anne morgan had and mrs airs A murray dike of tile Amer american lenn corn cor cittee for fop devastated france in recognition tion of efforts they have made to restore their farms farma to their prewar state I 1 the prize winners were selected by a jury of french agriculturists from entries in two agi agricultural cultural competitions tit ions the first prize a seed planter from louisville ky was won by albert delan and ills wife sixty eig eight lit and fifty eight years old respectively peasants from Allemo Al lemont uV ainne aisne who altho although ligh their fields were classed as irreclaimable by the government returned to their farro farm lived in a dugout and after tivo livo years of hard labor succeeded in putting their entire farm under cultivation cueli prizes totaling francs were also given by bliss morgan and mrs dike to the 80 30 farm hands in the cantons of aulzy and coucy chucy who were most meritorious the first prize of francs franca was won by tin nn aged couple named Thull Thul let liet who served fot foi 40 years on oil the same farm and jhc after the war worked a year without wages images because their mistress could not afford to pay them through gli the operation cooperation co of the american committee w ath the farmers of the ainne aisne acres acred of land aged by the war have been reclaimed and ore are at arese prese present under cultivation the committee hns has organized 32 agricultural syndicates among the farmers and has placed 40 40 tractors at their disposal the two agricultural contests with prizes worth morth more than francs Is one of the he ways in which the american committee ll Is stimulating the lie farmers farr ocra to do their utmost I 1 n ait oit |