The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-11-17
THE TRAIL COUNTY CORN,
COOKING AND SEWING CONTEST

The annual corn, cooking and sew
ling contest of Trail county was held
at Hillsboro on Saturday. The exhibits
of corn were not many, but were good
! in quality-considering the year they
were exceptionally good. The exhibits
Of potatoes were so uniform that 1T
was really difficult to decide which was
entitled to first prize. When it came
to the exhibits of bread IL took con-
siderable study to decide which was the
best--all being uniformly good. The
same was true of the cookies and
ldoughputs. The cookies we're perhaps
the most even of the exhibits. The
sewing exhibit included aprons, pillow
covers, sheets and darning.
Miss Hoover, who did the judging,
was very much pleased with the exhibit
and commented on the good showing
that was made.
The prize winners were as follows:
Minnesota No. Is corn--First prize,
Noel Thorpe; second prize, Mans Thor
son.
Minnesota No. 13 corn raised by boy
under 13--First prize, Harry James;
second prize, Martin Kamrud
One-half bushel any variety Of corn
First prize, Noel Thorpe; second
prize, Conrad Leraas.
One-half bushel potatoes-First prize
Fay Heffel; second, Noel Thorpe.
Bread-First prize, Minnie Crush;
second, Mary Lerass; third, Alice Aune
Bread-First prize, Minnie Gruah;
Alma Remstad; second, Emma john
ston.
Cookies-First prize, Evelyn James;
second, Hazel irwin.
Doughnuts-First prize, Helen Aune;
second, Evelyn James.
Plain Sewing-First prize, Mary Lee
rass; second Alice Thorson.
Sofa Pillow First prize, Frances
Scott: second, Evelyn James; third,
Erva Butcher.
Darning-First prize, Lena Lerass;
second, Esperance Boyd.
Prof. PaIrner's Address.
After the judging had been done the
high school gave a musical selection,
after which Prof. w. C. Palmer gave
an address on corn growing. He spoke
of the Importance of the corn plant
important not only because 1t furnishes
good crop, but perhaps as much so
the IcCb lAArL The GulNIRdAAOA ELRGAA
1t leaves the ground I'm almost an ideal
condition for the following crop and
thus increases 1t considerably. He
stated he was glad to see so many boys
and girls taking an interest in corn
growing, as it augured well for the fu@
ture, in that the boys and girls of today
will be the farmers OF tomorrow, and
having had experience in growing corn
they will know how to go at it and
make splendid success from the first.
He referred to the paper prepared
for the dry farming congress by Widt-
soc of Utah, in which he related the
results OF experiments which brought
out the fact that a crop can make
practically twice as much growth on a
rich soil as on poor one, with the
same amount OF water--in fat 1t seems
to be good deal like eating thin soup
or thick soup. He also advocated plow-
ing for the corn early in the fall or in
the summer, so as to kill the weeds
which would otherwise pump out the
moisture and leave the ground too dry
for good results. Then, again, on the
fall blowing the weeds start early in
the spring and can be killed before the
corn lis planted. while on spring pIow-
Ing che weeds get later start and get
up about the same time the corn does
and then have to be killed In the fall.
In closing he complimented the con-
|testants on the fine quality OF corn and
potatoes they had produced and hoped
that next year there would be many
more who would take part Ia this line
OF work.
Miss Hoover Spoke.