The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-03
KING KORN.
Collection of the Best Grown In
Kansas.
Compete For Topeka CONNER
ciaI Club Prize.
MAKE FINE SHOWING.
What the State Can Do When
1t Tries.
After Prizes Are Awarded Corn
Will Be Sent to Paris.
MAKE FINE SHOWING.

One OF the smaller rooms connected
with the department Of agriculture in
the west wing of the state house bears
a resemblance to a corn crib at pres
ent- Stored in it is 80 or 40 bushels Of
Kansas corn. To be sure it is not piled
indiscriminately on the floor as one
would expect to find it in an ordinary
corn Grip. but it is carefully packed in
baskets, boxes and sacks.
For this is no ordinary corn that is
given a place in the state capitol. 1t
might be termed the cream of the Kan
sas prairies. 1t is among the best Of
the greatest corn crop ever grown in
any state in the union. There are great
long golden ears, filed with rich-ap-
pearing yellow kernals; big, round
White ears, rounded out to the extreme
tip with white pearls; and red ears so
big that they would have entitled the
finder to half dozen forfeits at an old
time husking bee.
They are the samples which have been
sent to compete for the prizes offered
by the Commercial club some time ago.
From all over the state they come, and
the prize winners will have the honor
OF being sent to Paris to show the world
what Kansas can do in the line of rails
ing corn
The entries closed Saturday evening.
but all of the exhibits have not been
listed and arranged. Among the con-
testants are the following:
n. F. Bartholomew, Mound City. five
entries. Two of white, and one each of
yellow, red and calico.
W. S. Hay, Menoken one bushel
pride of the North white; one
bushel Bloody Butcher" red; one
bushel, white Pearl" white; one BUSH
el Golden Beauty yellow.
Luther Hay, Menoken, one bushel
W. R. Beck. Holten, one busheI pop
corn.
George P. Evans. Bonner Springs, one
bushel yellow.
Frank Hodges. Mission township,
Shawnee county. one bushel calico corn.
N. J. Campbell Meriden, two bushels
"CampbelPs Mammoth" calico
J. A. Baxter, Waveland. one busheI
'Sunflower Dent" yellow. There are
just so ears in this exhibit, and they
weigh 511a pounds.
J.. $. Hitchcock, Manhattan, one
bushel calico.
F. B. Bottorff, Tecumseh, one bushel
white.
Fl. E. Jackson, Tecumseh, two bushels
kansas Beauty" yellow; one bushel
white
V B. Howey. Topeka, one bushel
white Dent" white.
NJ. J. Crouch, Maple HILL one bushel
"GumbO King" yellow.
NJ. NJ Maxwell, Valley Falls, one
bushel white.
Bradford Miller, Mission township.
one bushel white Dent" white; one
bUshel StOwells sweet corn.
J. W. Babbitt, Hiawatha, one bushel
yellow.
William Ramsey, Solomon, one bushel
kansas Gourd,' yellow
6. w. Hathaway. Topeka, one bushel
yellow"
A f. Jones, Topeka, one busheI Gold
Basis" yellow.
Ralph DyaI, station B, Topeka, one
bushel yellow pop corn. The exhibitor
is only eight years old.
w ht1C al
yellow.
Grant E. Kelsey. North Topeka, one
bushel white.
D. w. Metsler Chanute, one bushel
king of Kansas Corn" white
John D. ZeIler, Hiawatha, two bushels
E. Grubbs. Neosho Falls, two bushels
white.
John Warner, Manhattan, one bushel
white Pearl" she1led; one busheI
Mammoth White" shelled.
Thomas D. Hubbard, Kimball, one
bushel white.
Hugh Griffith. Belle PLANE. one
bushel yellow.
The last sample was sent by Senator
F'orney, who believes that it will take
the first prize, but Senator Forney has
not seen some of the other corn entered.
In his letter to Major Anderson, secre-
tary of the Commercial club, he writes:
7 send to W. J. Black, general pas
senger agent A. T. & S. f. Ry.. a bushel
of corn in the ear for your club. This
viii be the best bushel of corn, in my
opinion, received by you, and want to
ask as an especial favor that it be
placed on exhibition in your club in
the name Of Hugh Griffith of this place
and it will no doubt win the prize. II
you have to pay any express charges,
let me know the amount and I will re-
init, as 1 want it to be sure and get
through and be entered in the compe-
tition and afterwards go to Paris"
One of the best appearing exhibits Is
that made by H. E. Jackson, of Tecum-
sch Mr. Jackson filed a bushel basket
with corn. and around the top he placed
a wire net. In this he placed more ears
on end, and in the end of each ear he
placed a small flag. The ears are not
so large around as those in some of the
exhibits but they are very long.
The Judges in the contest are f. D.