River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-02-04
Seed Corn Show
at New Richmond
(From The New Richmond News and Republic.

New Richmond is TO have a seed
corn contest, exhibit and lecture.
Prof. R. A. Moore, the seed corn ex-
pert is to. be here.
Saturday, March Is, is the date
set for the first annual Seed Corn
Contest, Exhibit and Lecture and
it will be held in this city under
the auspices of the New Richmond
Business Mems Association.
Prof. R. A. Moore, the seed corn
expert of the University of Wjscon-
sin experimental station, is to be
the judge. He will also deliver the
lecture, which will cover a wide
range of topics, all about corn, how
ever, and he will award the prizes.
Mr.. Moore is deeply interested in
the project, and he will help in many
ways.
The Seed Corn Contest, Exhibit
and Lecture is to be under the i'm
mediate direction of the following
general committee: L. A. Baker,
who originated the project, ]. ].
Padden and A. Deneen, together
with D. A. Glover and F. S. Bell,
president of the business mems
association. Mr.. Baker proposed it
at the November meeting of the
association, and ever since then he
has been earnestly engaged with
the preliminaries, all of which were
finally arranged and the association
took formal action approving the
plans and fixing the date at it's re-
cent meeting, at the same..time max
ing appropriation for all the expens-
es, for everything connected with
the Seed Corn Contest, Exhibit and
Lecture is to be absolutely free.
The general committee has form
ulated the following
RULES AND REGULATIONS
which will govern the Seed Corn
Contest, Exhibit and Lecture and
they explain the proposition in de-
tail:
PRIZES-$50.00 in Cash Prizes
will be awarded as follows:
First Prize-$10.
Second Prize-$8.
Third Prizes.
Fourth Prices.
Fifth Prize-$2.
and the next twenty-five in order
receiving 81 cash.
In addition to the foregoing,
each person making an entry will
receive one pint of PURE BRED
SEED CORN furnished by the Ex-
perimental Station of the Wisconsin
College of Agriculture, absolutely
free.
EXHIBITS-An exhibit must con-
tain five ears of corn substantially
fastened together. Any person is
eligible to make an exhibit who re-
sides in st. Croix, Polk, Pierce or
Dunn counties, and the corn COM
prising the exhibit must be of
standard variety and must have
been raised by the exhibitor in one
of the above named counties.
ENTRIES must be made to Fred
S. Bell, secretary of the New Rich
mond Business Mems association,
on forms furnished by him, and the
corn must be in his hands not later
than 9 a. m Thursday, March 18th.
Corn for exhibition can be shipped
to Secretary Bell by express,
charges prepaid, plainly marked
with name of exhibitor, and entries
by mail will receive just as careful
attention as though made in person.
Each entry will be given a number
so that only the exhibitor and the
secretary will know who owns the
exhibit.
JUDGING-The corn will be
judged and prizes awarded by Prof.
R. A. Moore, of the Wisconsin Agri-
cultural College, during the fore
noon of the day of the show and
the decisions will be announced at
2 p. m, just before the lecture.
Prize money will be paid at the
close of the meeting.
A list of awards will be published
in the local papers.
EVERYTHING FIR E En- o
charge for entering exhibits will be
made.
The corn comprising the exhibits
will become the property of the
association, to be disposed of as
they see fit.
PROF. MooRE's ENDORSEMENT
The project has the enthusiastic
endorsement of Prof. R. A. Moore.
In a recent letter he had this to say
among other things:
1T seems to me that this Seed
Corn Contest, Exhibit and Lecture