1925 GARDEN CONTEST

Guam, like most of the Marianas before World War II, was self-sustaining in food in most things. Once in a blue moon, pests or storms might damage the island's crops and emergency food supplies would have to come from Manila, as did happen during Spanish times.

The Naval Government's policy before the war was to encourage the people to farm and produce more. The government schools could help promote this idea and one way to do it was to have the students from the different schools compete with their agricultural produce.

In 1925, a Garden Competition was held among the schools and these were the results :

BEST....	WINNER	SCHOOL
SQUASH	Jesus M. Chargualaf	Inalåhan
THREE EGG PLANTS	Martin Barcinas	Malesso'
EGG PLANT	Gregorio Taitague	Inalåhan
CORN	Jose S. Rivera	Hågat
WATERMELON	Jose H. Lujan	Inalåhan
CUCUMBER	Gloria C. Borja	Yoña
KONDOT	Jose Meno	Inalåhan
KW BEANS	Pedro Leon Guerrero	Intermediate (Hagåtña)
CANTALOUPE	Martin Barcinas	Malesso'
LETTUCE	Joaquin San Nicolas	Dorn Hall (Hagåtña)
CHAYOTE	Jose L. Babauta	Talofofo
PUMPKIN	Vicente Baleto	Sumay
RADISHES	Juan Cruz Perez	Bilibic (Hagåtña)
TURNIPS	Jesus Guerrero	Bilibic (Hagåtña)
TOMATOES	Jose Gutierrez	Intermediate (Hagåtña)
PEPPER	Martin Barcinas	Malesso'
MUSTARD	Jesus L. Tenorio	Bilibic (Hagåtña)
COPRA	1st : Joaquin S. Inoue 2nd : Vicente P. Leon Guerrero	Piti Inalåhan
ATMAGOSO	Juan M. Salas	Hågat

SOME NOTES....

Three Egg Plants. I can only guess that competitors could enter three egg plants to see whose trio was the best.

Kondot. There was no English name for this listed in the original but it can be called the wax gourd in English.

KW Beans. Stood for "Kentucky Wonder." I remember my grandmother (born 1899) using this term for those beans.

Chayote. Better spelled chaiote or chaioti in Chamorro. This was a variety of squash said to have been brought to Guam by James Underwood and given a Chamorro name using his last name!

Atmagoso. Bitter melon.

Villages. Among these 19 categories, Hagåtña schools took six prizes and Inalåhan took five.

Persons. The individual student who took the most prizes was from Malesso', one Martin C. Barcinas.