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Show SMART AS A FOX Farm Youlh Snares 135 Foxes To Win Championship Laurels W'SU Features. ITHACA, N. Y. Old-timers among the ranks of trappers, may well take a cue from Huck Spaulding, 18, of South West-erlo, West-erlo, Albany county. Despite his age, Spaulding has snared 135 foxes during the past winter to rank as champion fox j trapper of New York for 1946. j Second plae was taken by Robert H. Hark, 13, of Dalton, j with 51 foxes, and third by George Rathbun, also of Dalton, j with 28. Both are 4-H club members. Hark also received first I prize for the best prepared pelt. $ Winners receive cash awards and medals in the contest for farm youth sponsored by the State Farm bureau federation and the American Agriculturist, Agri-culturist, farm magazine. Purpose of the contest is not just to kill wild game but to teach farm boys and girls how to control surplus wildlife in areas where damage is being done to poultry and livestock. Another aim is to encourage practices among rural youth that recognize wildlife as a farm crop which may add income to the farm business. D. B. Fales, assistant state 4-H club leader, reports that an estimated estimat-ed 2,300 foxes were taken in the state by the youthful trappers during dur-ing the contest year. Second and third places for the best-prepared pelt were won by Edward Bartlett of rural Lockport and Francis Simpson of rural Port Jervis. This, the second year of the contest, con-test, far surpassed last year's when |