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Show County's Youth Enter National Garden Csxiiest Byron W. Grassman of Eph-raim Eph-raim will pit his knowledge of efficient production and marketing market-ing methods against boys and girls of 45 states in the fifth annual an-nual contest ot the National Junior Vegetable Growers Association. Asso-ciation. This county's entry is eligible to compete for awards fro;1.! the $6,000 scholarship fund p.ovided annually for the association contest con-test by thhc A & P Food Stores, I Prof. Grant B. Snyder, of Massachusetts Massa-chusetts Slate College, advisoiy, chairman of the junioi group, re- j ported. The awards include a 1 .S500 national championship, tour ; $200 regional awards and 33 sec- j tional championships of $100 each. Two war bonds are offered to outstanding contestant.", i.i each state. "The 1945 contest has a dual i purpose," said Prof. Snyder. "One is to emphasize the vital need ; for increased food production this year and the second is to illus-trate illus-trate to young people how neces- sary efficient production and marketin methods will be to the i vegetable growers of the future., i Winners are decided on the basis of the contestants' efforts on studies of production and mar- j keting, their vegetable projects and their community activities." |
