Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-10-10

Easiest scythe. with short blade.
Best shotgun for potato bugs.
Best shotgun for agents.
Bet strawberries grown on straw
stack.
Finest dress, woven from corn silk.
The largest bushel of potatoes.
Best handmade socks with en-
bro:dered holes in the heels.
Best harrow that is not afraid to
show its teeth, and has none decayed.
Best corn and pumpkin shelter.
Best breakfast pitchfork.
Best grain and stone drill.
Shortest mule with longest cars, to
answer the purpose ofreins.
Horse that stops quickest at the
word, If il doesn't know what get up
means
Best job pruning, with peck of the
prunes.
Best har presser, hired boy who
maps in hay-mow, no. to compete.
Best new broom for sweepstakes.
Condensed wood, three-quarters to
the cord.
Ten dollars for best yield of one
acre of wheat; to be hauled to the
presidents barn.
Best buckwheat-fed bucks; sawbucks
not included.
Best yield OF fall apples that dom,
fall.
Best method of utilizing hard. boiled
picnic eggs, and doughnuts, and hard.
boiled cider.
Best mule without hind legs.
Best farmer In the county; his word
for it, or his wife's.
Best tanning mill for hot weather.
Best barberry that the bars can pro-
duce
The most patient man who can car
~ baby all day around the grounds,
and sweat and not growl
The best display OF bee hives, and
itching hives for summer wear.
Best herd of sheep, and best sheep
that are not heard.
Best display OF cats and other cattle
Best square country dinner; the
president 10 be the Judge.
Best COW to give buttermilk for but.
ter.
Best ram for rambles over the farm
Best specimen of smear-case; the
case not to be smeared.
Best display of poultry grown or
poles, by Poles or anybody else.
Finest four-horse team OF oxen.
Largest display of cobs for sherry
cobblers.
Best twine-binder with dining anc
smoking rooms attached.
Best elevator for raising hay on ella,
ground.
Best current wine; all wines consid
cred current.
Best churn for apple butter.
Best fertilizer for bald fields ant
heads.
Best machine for threshing the crol
OF hayseed out of your hair ane
clothes.
Best country.cured bacon.
Best country-cured town visitors.
Largest string of suckers caught il
a corn field.
Best paper of eyeless Spanish nee
dies.
Best beet, fullest of beetles.
Best display of moonlight hops.
Best rendition of The Last Row
of Summer by a happy farmers boy
accompanied by a corn-stalk fiddle.
Best jar OF jam; the jam to be in thu
hall on the grounds.
Horse that can get over the creates
time in a mile.
| Best bicyclist who comes out heat
first in race.
| Best walking match, and best matri
monial match taking place on tn,
grounds.
Running -plowrace, best,ime arount
| the track.
| Best essay on the superiority Of tn,
Canadian over the Acerican thlstle.
Fastest time made by farmer
clock.
/ Best clover and walnut huller.
Finest highly agricultural young
lady on the ground.
Best corn.cutter: no chiropodist!
need apply.
Best awning for fence corners In no
weather.
Best patch of melons on farm
Btst patch OF CASHMERE on pants.
Largest mortgage raised off a farm
this year.
Best clock that can keep the mos,
time in day.
Best account at store that can rur
the longest.
-IPrairic Farmer.
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