Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-13
Secretary Greene Wants State
to Establish horticulture
Experiment Station
MEETING is HELD
State Department Of Agriculture
Meets and Hears Addresses Of Men
Prominent in the Work-Prizes
Awarded for tho Best corn-The
Proceedings.


| Wesley Greene of the state department
| OF horticulture has proposed the es-
Establishment in Des Moines Of a per-
manent horticultural experiment sta
ton and has suggested that the sixty
acres of land owned by the state OF
Iowa, but not used by the department
of agriculture for state fair purposes,
| be secured for this station
MIR. Greene also reported a sad
failure of the apple crop in Iowa this
year. But the failure extended all
over the country, and was mot confined
to this state Failures do occur in the
fruit business, but not more than In
commercial and manufacturing busi-
ness. Orchards can be shown to pay
vesll during the first twenty-five years
of their life, hut they cannot be made
to pay when they are used as stock
pastures and for shelter for stock.
President l.. H. Pammel Of the State
Park and Forestry association is an
advocate of municipal forests.
In his annual address to the ASSOC
citation last evening at the capitol he
discussed the matter at length. lie be-
lieves, In the first, place. that the state
and nation only can be effective in
preserving the forests OF the country.
But he would have municipalities go
into the business Of growing forests
commercially.
Agriculture Department.
The principal addresses today before
the annual meeting of the State De-
partment of Agriculture, We're by Pro-
lessor G. r. Curtiss, of the State Col-
lege, and Hon. w. A. Harris, of Chi
cago. Curtiss spoke on Benefits De-
rived FROM the Show Ring: by Exhib-
itors, by Visitors" Harris spoke on
How Can Our Foreign Markets for
Beef and Pork be Increased?"
The institute is more largely attend
ed than it ever was before in the his
tory of the department The rooms
at the capitol were thronged with
farmers and delegates to the conven-
ton. Many of prominence were Oh the
program, including D. Ward King, Of
Maitland, Mo-, the man who invented
the King road drag, which has revolu-
tionized the road making business -
the state and has made it possible for
the country to have good roads the
year round. Frank O. Mills, of Chica-
go, was present to talk Of the five day
market at the stock yards and John
Cownie and others were there.
Capt E. Miller, the famous county
school superintendent. of Washington,
was in attendance and made short adj
dress on the value Of teaching agricu1-
ture in the schools. He Is committed
to the idea.
Corn Prizes Awarded.
Prof P. G. Holden, Supt Fred Heth-
ershaw, and large force of assistants
spent many hours Of hard work yes
terday arriving at the awards in the
state corn exhibit at the state house.
G.. H. Whiting of Whiting, at last was
awarded the>prize for the finest and best
single ear of corn. There are so many
fine single ears, however, that five
premiums were paid. The ears exhib-
tied become the property of the state.
The following were the winners:
Best ear of corn-First, g. H. Whit
ing, Of Whiting, $40; second, Todd
Moore, of villisca, s12; third, H. v.
Hethershaw, Of Des Moines, $40;
fourth, Jacob Let, of Cambridge, S.;
fifth, Fred Hethershaw, Of Des Moines,
Sc.
| The other competition was as fierce
as that over the single ear. A score
of long tables in the rotunda and COR
ridors of the capitol were loaded with
the exhibits The following were the
awards made:
Best ten ears Of Yellow Dent corn
First, Thomas Thompson, of Villisca
$40; second, Minis Bros, Of Emerson
So: third. D. j. Easton, of Whiting, Sc;
fourth, r. w. Cassidy; of Whiting
"a.
Best ten ears Small Yellow Dent =
First, T. Moore, of villisca, $40; Sec
ond, Grant Chapman, Of Bagley, IS;
third, S. Shakespeare, Of Farmorl. So
| fourth, Minis Bros. Of Emerson, 81.
Best ten ears Large White Dent =
First, w. W. White, of Oskaloosa, SO;
second, Fred Hethershaw, Of Des
Moines, So; third, Lewis Haggland, o.
Essex, Sc; fourth. G. G. Roe, Of os-
kaloosa, 81.
Best ten ears Small White Dent =
First, Fred Hethershaw, Of Des Moines
SO: second, W. W. White, of Oska.
loosa, So: third. Thomas Thompson. O
Villisca, Sc; fourth, H. v. Hethershaw
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