AGRICULTURAL CLUBS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1938, Page 3

AGRICULTURAL CLUBS

ROOT GROWING COMPETITIONS. MANGELS AND CARROTS. Mangels and carrots have been selected by the Wairarapa Boys’ and Girls’ Agricultural Clubs’ Association for the 1938-39 root-growing competition for children attending the primary schools in the Wairarapa. The competition has been divided into five groups with centres at Masferton, Carterton, Greytown, Featherston and Martinborough. Children from standards three to six inclusive are eligible to compete and either one of the two crops may be grown. Entries close on August 12 with the group secretaries, who are required to send them on to the central secretary, Mr G. S. Maloney, District High School, Greytown, by August 19. In the ordinary course of events the plots will be at the competitors’ homes, but where conditions do not permit of this any other suitable site may be selected. All plots sown must be 11 yards long by 53 yards wide (an eighth of an acre). Separate championships and challenge cups to be held for 12 months will be awarded to the best competitors in the district for the two kinds of roots. Certificates issued by the Education Department will be awarded to the winning competitors in each group. Inspection and judging of the plots will be carried out by the Wellington Education Board’s instructors in agriculture. Plots will be judged during June and/or July, 1939. Competitors may have the preliminary heavy digging and laying out of the plot done for them, but all subsequent work—tillage, seed sowing and cultivation—must be done by the competitor. Seeds and manure, together with instructions for use, will be supplied to all competitors free of charge. Every competitor must keep a crop record on the form provided. This is to be .written out in school under the supervision of the teacher from notes made at home by the competitor.