Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-03-17

white corn cobs, but the trustful nat.
ure and warm and noble hearts of
them that suffereth now in semi.silence
would rebel over the concealment of a
great RESPONSE bility for the sorrow Of
those who suffer. and justly 80. be.
cause the corn kings of Eden had the
winning fruit Of their ingenuity and
toll.
Possess thy souls in the patience Of
unwounded pride, thou men of Eden, .
name that bears responsibility for all
things good the broad would over, and
thou of our own Eden, contemplate the
beauty of the picture even unto the fig
trees thereof. for out Of it comes glory in
tho face Of them who sorroweth.
Now for the revelation.
Last week one of the most successful
corn contests ever held in the state
took place in Canton. The spirit of
honest rivalry was strong between the
corn growers of Canton and Eden
townships. and the champions had
brought their best corn and cobs along.
Everything was displayed in attractive
fashion before Prof. Cole. the Brookings
college corn expert, and he and his as.
sistant from the college began q scienti
fic investigation Of the corn to deter
mine the aggregate score fromsix Of the
best samples from any township. The
contest narrowed down between Can
ton and Eden. and Prof. Cole measured
and weighed and took note of kernel,
cob and color, butt and tip, eirt and
length, and figured for nearly ten
hours over the complex problem OF
superiority on every point.
The keen and observing unprofession'
al gave victory to Canton then to Eden
and back and forth the victory went
according to this or that newly discov.
cred evidence of superiority. The
unprofessional surrendered in utter
failure and went to the court house to
hear Prof. Chicott talk.
About 4 o'clock Prof. Cole drew q
long and restful respiration, smiled
gentle and then took his score sheets
under his arm and went over to the
court house to announce the final issue
of q mass of figures that would have
kept Mrs Chadwick out of the Ober.
lin bank, and in that final solution OF
the splendid contest we will be able al
last to show you the meaning of white
cobs under yellow dent. Had the cobe
been red there would have been nc
need of ell this beautiful language but
the cobs were white
To bring this mystery to the open
promptly. it is only necessary to say
that Eden township won the big silver
cup by less than half a point in the
total score and the corn kings of on,
Eden jubilated over their victory and
they had reason to expand.
Several of the best corn growers in
Canton township, some of them experts
in selecting their samples of ten cert
for the contest. found out, when ever
lastingly too late that six measly white
cobs had slipped into the Canton ex
hibits and five points we're lost in thu
total score Eden only lost one point
in the total score from two white cob
and thus Eden walked away in tri.
umph, and Eden was entitled to hel
glorious victory, and in this connec
ton it is proper to state that there were
no white cobs in the Joe or Albert
Millett corn. Gus Fowles lost half &
point on white cob, and il 10 safe tt
say Eden will never raise another white
cob if it can be helped,
| John Brenner said. when he heard