Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-08-19

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valued at $3.50, presented by Governo
Hay of Washington. Grains, forage
,, fruit and root varieties will score z
per cent; arrangement, IS per cent
and quality of exhibit, As per cent.
The chamber of commerce of Co
orado Springs, COL, gives $50 sil
yer cup for the best individual dis
play from Kansas, Nebraska, New
Mexico, Wyoming, Utah and Colorad do
To interest graduates of last yea
from the agricultural and state col
leges, life memberships in the DR..
Farming congress will be given to ex
hibitors of the best displays. from
California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas
Montana, Nebraska. Nevada, New
Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma
Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah
Washington, Wyoming. and the prov
inces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Mani
toba and British Columbia.
Another competition of interest Is
on Mcintosh Red apples, the board OF
trade of Lethbridge, Alta, giving a
$1OO cup for the best box exhibited,
There will also be cups valued at $50
! and spray materials and orchard a1-
paratus for the best packed Grimes
Golden, Spitzenburg, Jonathan, Win
| ter Banana, Wagner and the best
boxes of fourier Gravenstein, also
the best boxes of Rome Beauty and
Yellow Newtown Pippin and the best
display of not less than five boxes Of
commercial pack apples.
The Spokane chamber of commerce
will present cup, valued at 500, to
the largest delegation from any COM
mercial club or from any state or
province registering collectively be-
fore midnight on October 4, and sill
yer trophy will be awarded for the
best general display of agricultural
products exhibited by any CONNER
cial club or association, embracing
less territory than a county or prov
ince. The exposition committee, OF
which Gordon C. Corbaley is chair
man, will present a silver trophy for
the best county display, Spokane
county barred. The scoring will be
the same as that used in the state
contest.
The prize for the best individual
exhibit of grains, forage and roots,
all entries to have been grown upon
exhibitors ranch, open to the world.
is a steel gang pillow with four horse
hitch. For the best individual dis
play of threshed grains and seeds a
grain cleaning machine. Silver cups
and cash prizes will also be given for
the best displays of forage crops,
threshed wheat, varieties Of wheat,
oats, corn, barley, alfalfa, forage and
seed, fax, potatoes, vegetables, TOM
atoes, sugar beets, broom corn, non
sacaharrine sorghums and durum
wheat.
Cash prizes will also be awarded
for the best displays made by wo
man homesteader and the son of a
homesteader, also for the largest and
best display of farm products grown
in 1910, and cups for the best
county displays in Washington, Spor
kane county barred, and Spokane
county. In another contest three
prizes will be awarded for the photo
graphs of the best improved and most
desirable homesteads taken up within
three years.
Other contests are for best displays
from demonstration and United States
experiment farms, first years farmed
crops from sod by bona-fide home
steaders, complete and practical dis
play of monthly reports of farm op-
erations by individual farmers, pota.
toes by a woman homesteader, sheaf
wheat, grasses, blue stem wheat
wheat grown in Lincoln and Grant
counties, Wash, alfalfa, corn grown
on summer fallowed land and tallest
sheaf of wheat. The best collective
exhibit by an Oregon farmer will re-
ceive a $50 loving cup, presented by
the Portland commercial club.
For the most artistically arranged
display by county or province, SpO'
kane county being barred, Mrs. M. ):
Vessels contributes beautiful cereal
picture, and for the most artistically
arranged display by an individual
there will be a $50 silver trophy cup
In the class for threshed grains an
annual membership in the Dry Farm
ing congress and ribbons will be CIV:
en- for best single and ten ears OF
corn of Flint, Yellow Dent, White
Dent, Pop and Sweet varieties, and
best peck wheat, oats, rye, flax, en-
mer, buckwheat, field peas, beans, al
falfa seed, native and other grass
seeds, maize, millet, prose- broom corn
seed, timothy and sugar beet seed.
Similar prizes will be awarded Tor
sheaf grains and grasses.
The best individual display OF gar
den products will win SIS watch OF
jewelry of that value, the prize for the
best three cabbages, caulifower, Gu
cumbers, table ,beets, parsnips, tur'
nips, table carrots, peppers and cttrons
being a hand cultivator. Blue and
red and white ribbons will also be
awarded for best or largest vegetables
shown, also for crates Of canteloupes
and potatoes. /
The largest apple exhibited, size
and weight considered. viii win
camera, and the best general plate