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Show Boys In Smith-Hughes Work Win Prizes At County Fair During the recent war the U. S. Department of Agricultural had brought very forcibly to its attention atten-tion the need of better farming methods and stock raising. The government appropriated to Utah last year $5,000 and this year $10,000, to meet this need of agricultural agri-cultural and home making education. The High Schools in this district, having qualified, are receiving their portions of these sums. Previous to last year, agriculture as taught us in our local schools was theoretical rather than practical. Now the Smith-Hughes educational work, takes the boy during the summer months and has him practice prac-tice and do on his own home farm, under the direction of the argiculture teacher, the best and latest methods of farming as taught during the winter win-ter school work. Thus it may be seen that the boy is being supervised in agriculture work for 12 months, and for the summer project work he is given credit in school. This is a new endavor in this district last year, but encouraging results were obtained. Thirty-nine high school boys were engaged in summer project work. The majority of the projects were good and demonstrated dem-onstrated to the local farmers some new possibilities. A number of boy. exhilbited their products at the county fair. Following are some of the boys who were awarded prizes: Leonard Anderson, Moroni, potatoes, (Idaho Rural) 1st. prize; Wallace Taylor, Freedom, Mich, pea beans (dry) 1st prize Arttie Miner, Fair-view, Fair-view, Daiy project; Hiltton Kellett, Moroni, Sugar Beets 1st prize; Sheldon Shel-don Prestwitch, Moroni, Sugar beets, 2nd. prize. Next year we desire to have a hundred h3h school boys in this project work. This demands the ! support of school patrons in getting I the boys into this new field of agriculture agri-culture work. I |