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Show Three Big j Questions 4-H'ers Can Answer Three things every family would like to know are (1) Will the farm to make money tills year? (2) How can our cost of living be wisely reduced? and (3) What are our best paying crops? Any family with a boy who ' can do simple arithmetic can have I answers to those very important questions. Thousands of families have had them year after year, and will again in 1941. Handy books with easy-to-follow blank forms for keeping Just such information may be had of , county extension agents or club ' agents. Get them at once and en- I ter the few necessary figures before ' the last date for starting, which I is March 1. Records may ge kept on one of I three phases: (1) farm; (2) hone, I ore (3) crop enterprise, but all ! should be done as a 4-H ac- I tivity. The figures may be re- j tained at the close of the desig- I nated period,, which is 12 months j for farm and home accounts, and j the production period for a crop I A set also may be submitted In I j confidence for handsome awards I offered through the Extension Scr- i vice by the International Harvester ' Company, and the records re- covered after being judged, and ! analyzed to suggest ways of lm- proving the farm Income. Awards consist of gold medals in all qualifying counties, 12 colleges col-leges scholarships of $200 each and 32 trips to the 1942 Natioivii 4-H Club Congress to be given best accounts in participating states. All winners are to bo announced an-nounced at the close of (he no-eounkceping no-eounkceping period in the spring |