Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-18
SHORT COURSE A SUCCESS.
No Spectacular Prices Paid for Corn
This Year.

NO Spectacular Pr'ees Pa's TOR Corn
| This Year.
Ames, Jan. 1S.-The highest price
at the corn sale was $S5, which was
| the sum paid by II. f. Patterson, bust
ness manager of the Iowa Agriculture
ist, for A. l.. Plummer's championship
Ten ear sample. This is at the rate Of
| $3.50 an ear or nearly a cent ker-
nell The championship thirty ears
shown by c. r. Bishop, of Altoona,
were purchased by the exhibitor for
sos. Mr.. Proudfits championship
bushel also went back to the grower
at SIS. The price brought by the
championship single ear was something
of a disappointment to those who
looked for a repetition of some of the
sky rocket prices Of previous years.
This ear was bought back by it's grow
err, Mr. Frame, for s2S.
None of these prices are as spectacu-
lar as those made at the show two
years ago, when the record breaking
price of $3.50 for q single ear vas
reached. The general average, how
ever. was higher than it has ever been
before. The entire proceeds amounted
to over $1,40O, which is $500 more than
last years record. A large amount of
corn was bought back by the exhibit
tors, of course, but there was also con-
siderable good stuff that went into tho
hands of new men. These were mostly
young fellows who had become in
spired by the sight of the long rows Of
almost perfect corn and who We're de-
terlnined to do their best to make some
of the old exhibitors go some to carry
away the prizes next year. A feature
of the sale was the large number OF
samples bought by regular students ct
the college. A number OF these are
seniors who are going back to the farm
next year and who have high am
billions in the corn growing line. Some
of the others were younger fellows
who are going to send their corn nome
to their fathers or brothers.
The corn growers are unanimous IN
expressing their qualification in having
secured Mr.. B. w. Crossley for secre-
tarv another year. Mr.. Crossley stated
that he was not candidate for re-
election and even went so far as to
resign fter he was elected. The over
whelming sentiment of the corn grow
ers, however, at last induced him to
reconsider his resignation. Mr.. Cross
ley has, perhaps, done more than any
one man to make this years show
success financially and in every 9TH
err way and the corn growers felt that
it would be exceedingly difficult to mud
another man who could fill the place as
we'll
Short Course a Success.
The machinery and corn is being !
shipped away and those of the short
course men have gone home. 1t is the
unanimous opinion among them that |
the time spent in the short course has
been the most profitable two weeks of |
their lives.
."This is my first winter at the short
course" said one grey -haired man. but
if I had known what it was like 1 |
would have started coming long ago"
81 have learnedsa lot" another said.
"but I am glad it is over with, SO !
can have little time to sit down and
think over all the new ideas that l
have gotten hold of here"
Another fellow stated that his In
terest in short course work started
when a friend induced him to attend
the local short course at Avoca last
year. AS a result of what he learned
there. he tested his seed corn and threw
off II per cent that would not grow
The resulting increase in stand gave
him a yield so much greater than us
ual that he felt that he could we'll aft
ford to take in the two weeks short
course at Ames this winter.
Local Short Courses Next. /
Now that the short course here is
finished the extension department is
ready to start full blast at the local
short courses this week. There will
be two of these, one at Avoca and one
at Mason City. The Mason City short
course is a new feature for that part
of the country and was made possible
only because of the fact that small
pox at Red Oak prevented the extern
sion department from holding their
usual short courses there. Mason City
has one of the most enterprising COM
clubs in the. state and that,
together with the farmers, is pushing
the short course work for all there is III
it. Liberal premiums have been Of
fered and an extra large attendance
is looked for. One of the features of
the short course is the addition of
a spelling contest which was put in
to interest the school children of the
county, This is one of Professor Hold
ems numerous ideas. He believes in
the revival of the oldtfne spelirg
schools that were once so popular in
districts.