ROOT-JUDGING IN THE SOUTH

Taranaki Daily News, 19 June 1931, Page 3

ROOT-JUDGING IN THE SOUTH

BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ CLUBS RESULT. HEAVIEST CROP AT HURLEYVILLE Judging in connection with the boys’ and. girls’ root crop competition has been carried out during the past few days in the northern portion of the Wanganui education district, including Alton, Hurley ville, Kakaramea, Whenuakura and Kohi. The officers engaged in the work are Messrs. J. B. Hogg, agricultural instructor to the Wanganui Education Board, and T. W. Loxusdale, of the Department of Agriculture, who were yesterday at Alton and Harleyville, where some excellent results were obtained. The heaviest crop of mangolds judged yesterday and the heaviest yet encountered was that of Laura Burkhart at Harleyville. The return was 1191 tons to the acre. At Alton the crop of Arnott Foreman returned 117 J tone to the acre. The varieties grown were: Mangolds, Prizewinner, Yellow Globe; carrots, Matchless White; swedes, Masterpiece. By far the largest number- of plots judged wae at the Whenuakura echool, where, in the school grounds there were 31 plots, giving an excellent yield. “The yields throughout have been very satisfactory, though a little less than last year,” said Mr. Hogg. “Quality and cultivation have in many cases been excellent, showing that the activity in previous years is bearing fruit. The children are taking an increasing interest in the w'Ork, many having been entrants for the past three or four years. There is no doubt that the work possesses a high educative value, particularly when the children return to the farms, as many of them will during the next two or three years.” The judges were entertained at luncheon at Alton yesterday by Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Gibbs. In the following results, the figures represent points awarded for cultivation (40) and quality (10).. The third column represents the yield in tons per acre, based on l/80th acre plots. The charts will be judged later, when the full results will be published.

ALTON. Mangolds. Arnott Foreman. 40 9 1171 38 8 108t 36i Si 91J Mary Amon 38 7i 511 Mary Leo 30 6 21i Carrots. Lewis Amon m 7 51 Joyce Schwa ss. 30 6 504 Swedes. Mavis Armstrong .... 40 9 51 HURLEY VILLE. Mangolds. Laura Burkhart ...... 40 9 119A Clara Burkhart 40 Si 1021 Mary Burkhart ...... 40 Si 98 KAKARAMEA. Mangolds. Hilda Hamlin 36 f>i 34 Mavis Hardaker .... 38 7 32 36 6 251 Alan McDonald 30 4 17 Lucy Chamberlain ... 40 o 161 1 . WHENUAKURA. Mangolds. Mick Handley 384 6i 391 Arthur Reardon .... 381 6 bi i Annie Reardon 38J 7 37 £ Harold Hamerton .... 37 A 5i 36 38 Si 35i Percy McBeth ...... 30 5-i 36j Harold Parsons 37 7 361 Betty Bourke ....... 34 81 521 Rita* Handley 40 81 451 35 8 491 Norma Bourke , 39 8i 52 Swedes. Jack Bidwell 30 4 191 Walter Parsons 37 7i 461 Robert Booker ...... 36 7 32f Pnivy McBeth ...... 32 6 301 Harold Parsons ...... 36 7 41 Harold Hamerton ... 35 5i 32 Alan Parsons 371 71 42 Arthur Reardon 39 91 561 Carrots Joyce Donald 30 6 211 Harold Parsons 34 51 22-1 June Davidson 35 6 221 Doris Kiihfuss ...... 36 61 341 Winnie Waterland .. 36J 6 301 Mick Handley 381 6i 271 Ethel Cousins 39 7i 26 38 61 24f 30 6 261 Joy Wither 301 8 431 Owen Brown ........ 361 71 331 Nancy Hurley 38 G 26 KOHI. Mangolds. Harry Powell 40 10 1021 Dorothy Mountfort .. 37 0i 563 Swedes Matthew Hammond .. 40 5 311 Dorothy Young ..... 40 7i 211 Carrots. Betty Hopkinson .... 37 5 32< Joyee Hill 36 6 32