The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-13
NORTH DAKOTANS
Won MANY PRIZES
STATE JARED EXCEPTIONALLY
WELL IN THE sHEAF GRAIN
SECTION AT THE OMAHA CORN
EXPOSITION, CARRYING OFF
SEVERAL "FIRSTs."

Reports from the Omaha corn expo
sition, held la=t week, show that North
Dakota won many prizes. One of the
keenest contests was for the worlds
best peck of spring wheat which was
finally awarded to Wisconsin.
This is the decision which so aroused
]. j. Hill and caused him to send word
TO buy the sample at any cost and
make milling test of it and of the
sample from North Dakota. Speaking
Of this w. G. Gilbreath, commissioner
of agriculture for North Dakota, who
Is in charge of the states exhibits at
Omaha, writes:
The injustice of the decision was so
apparent to all wheat experts that it
was decided to buy the Wisconsin
wheat and then subject 1t to the mill
ing test along with the North Dakota
wheat, but we were indiscrete enough
to make this declaration public, and
when the Wisconsin people found ont
our proposed tactics, they determined
to prevent this procedure by buying
in their wheat and preventing a com
parison Of the test by the miIlers.
I'VE were willing to submit the
turn the same over to government ex-
perts, but in both instances the Wis
consin people rejected our proposition.
1t was ascertained after the sale that
they would have spent $500 rather
| than let the wheat fall into the hands
OF the Great Northern people. How
ever, we did get enough of their wheat
to make test before they put the
| log chain and lock on its receptacle
and the result of the test will be made
public"
Spirited Bidding.
Speaking of the bidding for this
sample OF wheat an Omaha paper saws:
The wheat which sold at the rate of
$500 a bushel, was grown by HI. e..
Kruger of Beaver Dam, Wis. The
peck sample, greatly depleted by the
loss of handfuls which had been car
| ried away by the curious, was bid in
and purchased by Mr.. Kruger him
self for s104. The exhibit was that
which carried away first prize in the
worlds wheat contest and which Gre
| ated a considerable sensation by win
ming out over North Dakota wheat
| entered in the contest against It.
| This winning stirred up Uncle Jim
| Hill to such a point that he wired an
| order here for his representatives to
jump into the auction contest and buy
up the wheat If 1t could be had. He
proposed subjecting 1t to milling test
along with the North Dakota wheats
to determine its relative merit as a
| -four maker.
| This rivalry was expected to have
stirred UP a considerable contest at
the auction, but the railroad represen-
tatives backed down when they found
what the wheat was going to cost
them. 1t is doubtful however, If Mr.
Kruger would have let them have 1T
at any price. He said that he is not
afraid of a fairly conducted milling
| test, but he did not propose to run the
risk of test conducted by his enc
mics and one which he could not
watch
Bidding on the wheat started at So.
1t was rapidly run up to $40, where it
stuck for long time. Then it took a
squirt and began jumping up by SIS in
creases until it reached 800. The
railroad representatives, Messrs. Leedy
! and Morrison, drew out of the game
early, but new bidder in the person
of H. w. Meekin, a seed man of Fond
du Lac, and 1t was from him that Mr..
Kruger took the sample with the high
bid of $104.
The wheat graded sixty -four pounds.
The sample which was exhibited had
been reduced down to somewhere be-
tween seven and eight pounds. making
the price paid average up close to $500
the bushel 1t was disappearing so
1 fa ef he acfa 81 H.
| it was exhibited that a log chain and
paddock were placed upon it to prevent
visitors from dipping in under the
| glass cover.
| 1t was stated by North Dakota en-
| thusiasts that the Great Northern did
not want the sample very bad. as
there was hardly enough of 1t left to
have permitted of god milling test.
North Dakota Prize Winners.
/ The prize winners announced by the
judges In the steaf grain competition
are:
Laist. Bismarck. ~. D.; 2, e. F. Jur-
censor, Bisbee, n. d.; 3, r. j. Hughes,
wahpeton, N. d.
Best Sheaf Durum Wheat. E. r.
Jurgenson. Bisbee, NJ. D.; 2, William
LkaASIs BlSInoFckf IN. H. 8, brOAdNl6W
Seed Co. Broadview, Mont.
Best Sheaf Wheat Other Than Above
yarieties--1. George B. Manning, Kali
ispell. Mont. 2. ]. w. Beskman, Co
kato. Mimi; 3. G. f. Nelson, Bisbee,
N. ID.
Best sheaf Rye. r. j. Hughes,
wahpeton. N. D.: 2, ]. p. Lowell, Bay
field. Colo; 8, Gus Nelson, Verona,
Neb.
Il Best Sheaf Flax for Seed, r. j.
Hughes. Wahpeton. NJ. d; 2, William
Laist, Bismarck. N. D.: 8, Drummer
Bros, Hurley, s. u.