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Show Opening Of Junior: Vegetable Growers 1 Contest Announced Opening of the 1950 production-marketing contest of the National Junior Ve g e t a b 1 e Growers Association was announced an-nounced he.re today by Professor Profes-sor E. Milton Anderson of Utah State Agricultural College's Department De-partment of Vegetable Crops, who is regional chairman for NJVGA. The contest offers teenage teen-age tillers of the soil more than 200 agricultural scholarships and awards for doing a superior super-ior job of growing and marketing market-ing vegetables. In announcing the association's associa-tion's tenth annual contest. Professor Pro-fessor Anderson pointed out that all Beehive State boys and girls from 12 through 21 are eligible to compete for the $6,000 in awards A & P Food Stores provides pro-vides for this project each year. Utah youths won three state awards in the 1949 contest. Professor Anderson explained that the contest is essentially an educational program designed to further the use of more modern, mod-ern, efficient and profitable methods of growing and selling vegetables. Those junior growers interested interest-ed in joining the NJVGA will find it easy to do so. Local 4-H Club leaders, county agents, instructors in-structors in vocational agriculture, agricul-ture, extension workers of the USD A, and youth leaders of National Grange chapters . are all cooperating- with the association associa-tion in enrolling members. Youths may also join by writing writ-ing directly to Professor Anderson Ander-son at Logan. In addition to the production-marketing production-marketing contest, the 1950 program pro-gram will again include the annual an-nual demonstration contest, in which individuals or teams compete com-pete in demonstrating n e w methods of planting, cultivating, preparing or marketing vegetables. vege-tables. - |