Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1909-08-27

various crops grown on nOn-irrigated
delegate to the Congress should, there
fore, take personal interest in see
ing that his district or section has
crop exhibits entered.
Rule l. All farmers diving where
rainfall is less than 20 inches per an
num) depending solely upon rainfall
to grow and mature crops, are eligible
to compete for premiums at this Dry
Farming Congress.
Rule 2. Exhibits shall represent
crops season of 1909 and shall not
have been grown upon irrigated, sub
irrigated OF seepage land.
Rule 3. All individual exhibits
shall have been grown by bona tide
ranchmen, stOckmen, and farmers.
play classes are open to any individu-
al, firm, club or community.
Rule 4. General display classes
shall be open to any individual, firm,
club OF community.
Rule 5. A class for special exhibits
will be made up later depending upon
the premiums offered therein.
Directions for Preparing Exhibits.
/. Preparing Sheaf Exhibits of
Grain.
Select desirable heads just as the
grain enters the yellow ripe stage.
Choose well filled heads that will
make a good representative showing
for the type of grain which you desire
to exhibit. Cut the straw close to
the ground so as to exhibit full length
of the straw, or if the grain, has been
cut, select best heads with stems long
as possible. Make sample not to ex-
coed POO heads. Tie with soft cloth
or narrow ribbon just under heads,
at butts and center of bundle and
place in a darkened room to cure or
ripen. When time permits, unite the
bundle, spread out, moisten straw by
sprinkling and strip all adhering
leaves, polish each straw with soft
cloth and re-bind the bundle with any
narrow ribbon OF appropriate color.
tying firmly in at least three or four
| places. See that all heads are cir
cular bush. This is very important.
DO not use strings in tying bundles of
| grain. See that each sample is neatly
and accurately tabled, wrap in thin.
soft cloth and suspend, with the heads
down, in free current of air in "A dry
place and out OF the bleaching effect
Of the sun.
2. Preparing Sheaf Exhibits of
Forage.
Select the most leafy types to be
found in the field, taking best and
most erect individual specimens OBJ
tainable. Cut close to the ground.
| put in a loose bundle not more than
four or five inches in diameter, loose
ly wrap in paper or thin, porous cloth
and hang in the drak to cure. TO re-
tain color, forage sample must be
dried or cured in the dark, but with
plenty OF dry air. When well cured
select the individual stems that have
retained the best leaves with their
leaf color and make up exhibit bun
dies inches in diameter. DO not
| strip a single leaf or branchlet from
the stem, since we are to show for
| forage value and want to retain all
the leaves possible. Timothy, bronze
grass, orchard grass millet and other
grass samples are spoiled for forage
samples by stripping. Tie neatly with
narrow ribbon in three or four places.
1t is desirable to take samples giving
full length of stems at each cutting of
clover, alfalfa or other forage cut
more than once in the season, giving
date of each cutting. A collection Of
native grasses should, in each in
stance, show seed or head, either in
blossom or full seed with full length
OF straw or stem.
3. Threshed Grain Samples.
Threshed grain samples should be
run through tanning mill to blow
out all chaff, dirty weed seed and
light weight kernels. Samples should
consist OF Is to ~ pounds.
4. Samples Of Ear Corn.
If possible, the ear corn samples
should be selected from the field and
not from the crib after husking. Make
up Il sample Of ~ ears as nearly uni
form in size, shape and color as pos
sible. See that exhibit ears are well
cured in dry air and thus avoid forma-
ton of mold and the premature
sprOuting of kernals, which occurs
when heat and moisture are bot Ii
present.
5. Vegetables.
All vegetables and root crops should
be selected with great care from fully
ripened specimens, washed and dried
out in shallow trays in cool, we'll ven
tilated cellers.
Mother Love.
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