The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1909-12-31
BOYS CORN GROWING
CONTEST OF INTEREST
Warren Love, a Garfield Lad,
Wins First Prize.
Prizes Offered Jointly by Q. r. & ~.
and w. 6. c. ode of CuitiVa-
ton Adopted by Prize Winner
Whitman County Corn Producer.

The first reports of the contestants in
the Boys Corn Growing Contest inaug-
urated in connection with the farming
demonstration train over the lines OF the
Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. last
March have been received at the state
- xperiment station. The seed corn for
.shis contest was supplied by the expert
ment station, and was of two kinds, one
a yellow dent and the other white
dent, which has been grown for several
years OF the station farm. This seed
was distributed to the boys under Is
years of age at each stop of the demon
stration train in each of the four coun-
ties Of Whitman, Garfield, Columbia and
Walla Walla. Each boy was allowed to
choose his own variety, and was given
enough seed to plant a quarter Of an
acre. The entire group of boys at each
stop were given instructions as to the
best methods Of growing corn in East.
ern Washington by Professor George
Severance, the head of the department
of agriculture in the State College and
Experiment Station. Printed instruc-
tions or suggestions were also sent to
each of the boys from the experiment
station.
The prizes we're offered jointly by the
O. R. n. Co. and the Washington State
College. and we're as follows: Sweepstakes
prize, for the best yield OF corn on one
fourth acre tract, 800. County prizes,
to be awarded in each of the four cOun-
ties for the best yield Of corn on the
one-fourth acre tract, $40; for the sec
ond best yield, $50; for the third best,
$40; for the fourth best, SO.
A total OF 65 reports from competing
boys has been received at the experiment
q station. These doubtless represent the
best results obtained by the boys in
each community. The reports have been
examined, verified and compared by a
committee Of experiment station men
aud the prizes awarded as follows, the
yields obtained being expressed on the
basis OF bushels per acre.
The Prizes Won.
Sweepstake prize, 800, Warren Love,
Garfield, yield 50 bushels per acre. Whit
man county prizes, 35 contestants re-
porting: Fret prize, $40, Glenn Strick-
ler, Colfax, 73 bushels; second prize, $50,
Richard Maynard, Colfax, 63 bushels;
third and fourth prizes, Pennoyer Eng
lish and Ira Kruger, both of Farming
ton, tied with 81 bushels, each awarded
SIS.
Garfield, Columbia and Walla Walla
counties reported, but not to the num-
ber credited to Whitman county. 1t is
stated that the boys are nearly all plan,
ming to enter the best 10 ears OF corn
which they raised in the 10-ear contest,
to be held in connection with the annual
meeting of the Washington Grain
Growers, Shippers & Millers' Association
Convention, which is to be held in Pull
man early in January. For this contest
first, second and third prizes OF Sc, So
and 81 respectively are offered for ex-
hbits Of the best 10 ears OF corn grown
on the tracts competing in the contests
for yield Some of the boys who failed
TO report their yields, because of acci-
d,nts to part OF their crop, will enter
8 ..tieir best ears in this contest, which
promises 70 be a lively one.
The winner Of the sweepstake prize,
Warren Love of Garfield, planted his
corn on land which had formerly been an
old corral and chicken yard, but for the
past three years had been in blue grass
sod and used as a sheep pasture. He
plowed the land six inches deep March
10 and disced it March 90; he followed
this by working the land 10 times with
q elod masher and orchard cultivator
before planting the corn May 81. The
corn was cultivated six times after it
came up, using first a harrow, then q
hoe, and finally horse cultivator and
'lsid by" when it was IS inches high.