Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-01-22
CORN SCHOOL ~ SUCCESS.
Canada, Mexico and Many States Rep
resented Among $50 Students.

Arnes, Jan. 17.-Fully as great a
success has been reached by the corn
judging school at the Iowa State col.
lege as by The school for the judging
OF stock. In fact 1t would seem i'm
possible to exaggerate the merits OF
the corn judging school as 1t is unani.
mously pronounced by the experts
here the greatest school for corn judg.
ing ever held in the United States.
This is true not only in respect to the
course of instruction offered, but also
as to attendance.
Nearly $50. students are registered
in the corn judging school. The ma,
jority, of course, are from Iowa, but
there are men here from Canada, Mex.
leo, the Shenandoah valley of Virginia,
South Dakota, Ohio, A-ichigan, Wis.
>consin, Minnesota, Illinois and Mis-.
souri,. A Virginia man, who has been
raising corn in the Shenandoah val.
ley Tor years, says he never dreamed
how much there was he didn't know
about corn until he came here, and
he declares his intention of going
back to his own country and revolu.
tlonizing the corn growing business
Among the many corn raisers from
outside Of Iowa, is r. S. Hooper, who
is foreman of the Vrooman farm near
Trenton, Mo. Mr.. Hooper is taking
the course IN corn Judging and is going
into the subject with enthusiasm,
Professor H. M. Cottrell, formerly pro-
fessor OF agriculture in the Kansas
State Agricultural college, is manager
of the farm of which Mr.. Hooper is
the foreman. Many of the students
are here to enable them to get a bet.
ter knowledge of how to select their
seed corn, and one striking case of this
kind is that of a Chicago lawyer, who
owns several farms in Kentucky. His
purpose in coming here is to enable
himself to select the proper varieties
and types of corn to send down to his
tenants on his property in the blue
grass state.
1t Is difficult to conceive of the i'm
portance the work done here is to the
state of Iowa. To begin with, corr
is the greatest cereal crop of the
state, as every Iowan knows, anC
there are nine and a quarter millions
of acres of corn in the state. Five
bushels more per acre added to the
yield of the Iowa corn field means ar
addition to the profits of the Iowa
farmers of over .$20,000,000 a year
With the interest in corn of 800 leading
farmers Of the state quickened anG
their knowledge of it extended so as tc
insure better breeding and cultivation
Of the great cereal. it is not difficult tc
see how the yield of the state can be
increased by a still greater amount
than an average of five bushels per
acre.
At the same time, there Is still a
broader purpose than the improve
ment of seed corn and the betterment
Of methods of corn cultivation involv.
ed in all this schooling Professor P.
q. Holden. who. as head of the depart
ment Of agronomy, is il charge of the
corn judging sCnool, said today that
looking at the matter from the broad.
est standpoint, the lettering of the citi.
Zenship of Iowa was the great object
to be obtained. IF we can succeed"
he said, "in getting the farmers of
Iowa interested in the study of corn
and improved methods of agriculture,
it is impossible 10 estimate the eff.
feet in the way Of improvement of the
citizenship of the state in thirty years
from now.