Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1910-12-16
THE CORN SHOW
HIGHLY PRAISED
Food Exhibits Here Tuesday
The Premiums In Yellow
and White Varieties

Inn. beginning at 10 o'clock. and was
creditable all the way through. There
were go exhibits of corn-big corn,
little corn, white corn, yellow corn,
ring streaked and striped, good, bad
and Indifferent. However, most of it
was good. The Judges and speakers
declared that, take it all the way
through, it was as fine an exhibit, as
far as it went, that they had seen.
The weather was not favorable,
but, on the other hand, disagreeable
and unpleasant. So much so as to
keep a number of exhibitors and Wis
itors away.
The exhibits were conveniently ar
ranged, in ten-ear piles, and present
ed fine appearance. Profs. Ewing
Lawson and T. B. Hutcheson, the
Judges awarded the prizes as follows: !:
Best ten ears white corn-E. K.
Crockett; second best, Joseph Barns.
Best ten ears yellow variety
Henry B. Copenhaver; second best,
Frank M. Moss.
Best single ear, white-Joseph
Barns second best, NIL. Peery.
Best single ear, yellow-John
Thompson; second best, Henry b.
Copenhaver.
The varieties winning prizes were
Boone County white and Yellow Dent.
These seem to be the favorite winners
in nearly all the shows. The corn
shown by Mr.. Crockett was Boone
County, grown from seed ordered
from T. w. Wood and Son last
spring, and hence not supposed to be
entirely accilmated. A good deal of
the crop did not mature perfectly.
The yellow winners grew from native
county seed.
Burke's Garden and Clear Fork
showed very fine quality of small
cared, smooth corn, except one or
two exhibits which were rough cap
ped-all of it very fine quality. AS
for big corn, Henry Kelly, John Nc.
Graw, Pruett, from Oscar Georges
farm, 10. Bowen, Jo. Barnes, Jno. T.
Barnes, Thos. Bundy and some iother,
took the cake. For large sound corn,
these exhibits could not be excelled.
However, most of this big corn show
ed mixed grains, large cobs, and the
grain not deep. Geo. r. Surface and
Geo. w. Doak showed very large
ears of yellow corn, badly mixed.
There was quite a lot Of small yellow
corn. c. H. Peery, Jr., and Jno. P.
Gose and Frank Moss showed nice va
rieties, as did also Copenhaver.
J. A. Leslie showed two lots of
Cookies Prolific, the first ever grown,
of this variety, in this section, per-
haps, and said to be the largest ears
of this variety to be found. This is
not show corn, however, and was
entered only to show what that va
riety will do in this section.
A corn shown attracted considera-
BILE attention, both of the Judges
and the people generally, and would
have been among the prize winners
perhaps, but was not classed. 1t was
neither white nor yellow. This corr
is we'll known here as the Jas. -EC
Peery corn, and is very fine variety
medium sized ears, deep grained
small cob, and filled out well, but
and tip, and is said to "have 'em al
skinned" when it comes to Smelling
out. In the next show this corn will
be classed so as to come in competi
ton, as it is becoming more widel,
grown in the county every year.
Upon the whole, the corn shov
was success all the way through
with this exception: A number o
, farmers who should have been presen
y were conspicuous by their absence
, THE ADDRESSES.
The addresses of Profs. Hutcheso
, and Lawson were delivered in tn
!, Court House after the judging an
= inspection of the corn was concluded
There was a goodly number of peopl
present. The meeting was called
order by j. A. Leslie, who read oil
the awards, and called Mr.. Frank N
> Moss to the Chair, who, in a we
. chosen, sensible, short speech, intr,
duced Prof. Ewing Lawson. M
Lawson made short, but interestir
: address, which cannot be given
. full. He gave several valuable SUI
. gestions as to increasing the value
= land production. At the present vail
= of the grazing lands in Southwe
Virginia the farmers are not makil
!! the percentage they should. Gait
= are kept too long on hand. The
= should be more frequent sales. Wint
b feeding and fattening might be trie
= Where cattle are winter fed and fl
lowed by hogs, the hogs pay for kee
ing the cattle. The land should
g made produce more grass-by ferti