SCHOLARSHIPS TO BOY CLUB GROWERS. 
U. P. RAILWAY OFFERS COURSES WORTH $75 AND TRANSPORATION TO WINNERS.
Scholarship of $75 and railway transportation on the U. P. lines to the College of Agriculture, School of Agriculture or Winter Short Course at the State College of Washington will be offered each of the top rank boys in 16 counties of the state by President Carl A. Gray of the Union Pacific, according to a letter received by President E. O. Holland of the State College. 
The system, now in operation in Nebraska also, limits the age of contestants to 16 to 21 years, and next year will be for best work in growing 5 acres of corn, 10 acres of wheat, or 1 of potatoes in the following counties: Adams, Benton, Clarke, Columbia, Cowlitz, Franklin, Garfield, Grays Harbor, King, Lewis, Pierce, Spokane, Thurston, Walla Walla, Whitman and Yakima.
Temporary arrangement this year permits boys to compete who are now conducting projects in growing corn, pigs, calves, potatoes, etc., in such counties as can be arranged between this date and the close of the season. 
The prizes this year are effective as soon as projects are completed and awards made. In the future they shall be used within a year of award, except where a boy is regularly attending school, when he may use it the year following, or next session after he finishes his school.
Rank in club work counts 75 per cent, and activity in community affairs 25 per cent. The winner is to be chosen from the 10 highest in the club projects outlined by the extension division of the college. The county superintendent will be one of the three judges, the director of extension to appoint a second, and the third to be named by the first two. 
Prizes for the current year will be awarded in the following counties where boys' and girls' club projects are already in operation: Adams, Benton, Clallam, Clarks, Cowlitz, Douglas, Franklin, Grant, Grays Harbor, Island, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Kittitas, Lewis, Lincoln, Mason, Pacific, Pend Oreille, Pierce, San Juan, Skagit,  Skamania, Snohomish, Spokane, Stevens, Thurston, Wahkiakum, Walla Walla, Whitcom, Whitman and Yakima.