Already announced as all-Can ada champion of the 1949 National Barley Contest, Joseph F. Brad ley, Portage la Prairie, as was ex pected produced last year’s best car of making barley. To the $1,000 prize for winning the national championship he ad ded $200. for the Manitoba Champ ionship and an additional $100 for placing first in his region. For purposes of the contest Manitoba was divided into two regions- In each region seven cash prizes were given, graduated from $100. to $30. From the 14 regional winners were picked three prov incial Runners-up for provincial hon ors were Edward W. Bradley, national champion in the 1948 contest, who placed second to his father in Manitoba and won $150. Third place was taken by Theo Pouteau, Swan Lake, who won $100. Edward Bradley did not place in the 1949 national awards. There were only two national prizes, second of which was taken by a Saskatchewan grower, R- H. Coates, Star City. A third member of the family Donald F. Bradley, also of Port age, was one of the Manitoba regional winners, who entered in the same region as his father. The national contest, started in 1946 by the brewing and malting industry and continued each year since, has been directed the last two years by the Barley Improve ment Institute whose head offices and laboratories are in Winnipeg Provincial winners in Manitoba, already named, and regional win ners were announced by the Inst itute March 28. The regional win ners are: “A” - Jr. F. Bradley, Portage $100; Edward Bradley, Portage $80; Theo Pouteau, Swan Lake $70; John Black, Douglas $60; S. L. Rodgers, Wawenesa $50; A. S. Enns, Altona $40; D. F. Bradley, Portage $30. Region “B” - Prizes same as in Region “A’’ - Steve Kodlesky. Brdtail $100: John A. Huska, Grandview $80; William Desiat nyk, Sandy Lake $70; Nick Motuz, Clanwilliam $60; Ernest Bryant, Inglis $50; Sam Mazuren, Benito $40; Arnold Marshall, Inglis $30.