Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1910-01-28
FINAL RESULTS OF THE
~ BOYS CORN CONTEST
Dorsey Hart, of Prescott, Wins Grand
Prize With 122 Bushels Per Acre.

Al ldSI the great BOY corn
growing contest has been fully set
tied and the prizes awarded. Pull
man leads Whitman county in
yield and best quality Of corn.
John Clark of this place was the
fortunate boy who had the great
est yield and the ten best ears and
ne won $40 in cash as a reward for
his efforts. Walla Walla takes the
sweepstakes prize as announced last
week. After much correspondence
and the securing Of affidavits,
Prof. X. W. Thatcher has at last
decided who are the rightful win
nerS OF the prizes and they have
been awarded. The following state
ment issued by Prof. Thatcher
gives the full facts in regard to
| the contest:
Final Results of Boys Corn Grow
ing Contest.
Early in December, the results
Of the reports of the Boys Corn
Growing Contest organized IN
connection with the O. r. & n.
Co. S Demonstration Train, which
lad been received up to that time.
were published through the news.
papers of the state. Immediately
following the publication of the
first awards Of prizes for this con
test, letters were received from scv-
craI OF the committees who had
measured and weighed the contest
ants corn. showing that their re
ports had been incorrectly under
stood. The misunderstanding arose
from the following facts: When
| the seed was distributed to the
boys they were instructed to plant
one-fourth of an acre Of ground
but some of the boys planted their
corn thicker than was intended
and did not have quite enough
seed to plant a full quarter Of an
acre. On this account. the boys
were all instructed that if they
so desired they might have their
committee measure off exactly
one-eighth Of an acre, Of such di-
mansions (61 by 80 feet so as to
leave margin on each side Of two
outer rows. and harvest and weigh
the corn from this acre tract The
committee reports were examined
at the Experiment Station. and the
yield per acre calculated on the
basis of one-fourth acre Of ground
unless the report showed that the
option Of measuring and weighing
the corn from one-eighth acre had
been followed and the prizes
awarded accordingly.
Immediately after the publica-
ton of these awards several com
mlttees wrote or telephoned to
Prof. Thatcher, the director of the
Experiment Station, that the
weight Of corn which they had re,
ported was taken from the one
eighth acre Of ground and that the
yield was. therefore, twice as large
as computed by the Experiment
Station men. Some Of the yields
thus claimed seemed almost in
credible and the committees were
asked to send in an affidavit to
substantiate the claims. Such aft
davits have now been received in
all cases where the yields obtained
amount to more than 100 bushels
per acre, computed on the basis
of 70 pounds of dry corn as
buShel.
The following is a copy of the
affidavit of the committee for the
winner of the sweepstake prize:
State Of Washington.
County of Walla Walla. SIS.
Before me personally appeared
d. Callahan and II. n. Kingsley
and depose and say that on the
18th day of November, 1909, they
measured and weighed corn grown
by Dorsey Hart in the Boys Corn
Growing Contest and that they
measured the land on which the
corn was grown and that from a
tract of land 61x90 feet the corn
weighed 1913 pounds.
(Signed) ID. CALLAHAN,
II. n. KINGSLEY.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me- this 18th dav of January 1910