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Last year’s (winners and awards were as follows:
Adult—Earl Kilby, 117 bushels per acre; 2nd Nelson Atkins, 118 busheis per acre; 3rd D. D. Miller, 106 bushels per acre.
Junior—1st Kelly Updike, 98.7 bushels per acre; 2od Richard Griffith, 90.0 bushels per acre; 3rd, Newbill Miller, 89.0 bushels per acre.
Rappahannock Supply gave a bushel of adapted certified seed com to each first place winner and a half bushel to each making the "Second and third highest yield. T. W. Wood and Sons also gave seed corn as awards to all participants.
While the Virginia-North Carolina ‘corn war’ has been discontinued—(getting beat two successive years was just too much for the Tar Heels) farmers of this Stalte have been asked to increase their total com yield 2% this year as a contribution towards the war effort. Rappahannock farmers are a patriotic lot, so by trying to make a higher corn yield this year they will be doing something for their country as well as for themselves.
Agronomy Committee
Announces Prizes
H. S. Barksdale, chairman of the Rappahannock Agronomy Committee, announces that prizes for the Quality Pasture Club of Rappahannock will be as follows: 1st prize about $60.00 worth of fertilizer; 2nd prize $40.00 in fertilizer; 3rd prize $20.00 in seed and lime and 4th and 5th prizes $10.00 in seed.
Prizes will be awarded to farmers having the highest percentage of improved pasture capable of affording 200 days grazing for one cow, or the equivalent of one cow, per acre. There is no entry fee!
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