The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-10-08
Baraga Children
Garry Off Honors.
Corn Contest Prizes Literally Distrfb-
uted to Children o. Barasa
County.

One of the big and most successful
features of the recent Copper Country
Fair was the corn contest for school
children. When the contest was an
nounced Prof. Leo M. Geismar, super
intendent Of the agricultural expert
ment station at Chatham, Marquette
county, announced that he would give
three prizes for essays to be written by
the children on their experiences in
growing corn for the contest. A COM
mittee of judges announced the win.
ners of the prizes as follows:
First Ingeborg Lundin of Baraga.
Secodd-Leo Chosa Of KeUeenaw
Bay.
Third Bert Obenhoff of Atlantic.
Honorable mention Theron DeLude
of Baraga, John Hanson of Baraga,
Gladys Strobel of Houghton and Lillian
Hartvigh of Skanee.
MISS LUNDN's ESSAY.
The following is the text of the es-
say winning the first prize:
II carefully watched for the time to
plant my corn till noticed the wealth
er looking as though it were nearly
ready to settle after the heavy rains
we had in the months of April and
May. The tenth of the last month !
plowed, dragged and carefully spread
barnyard manure on the piece of
ground had decided for my corn. On
the eighteenth planted it.
"The kernels were planted one inch
deep and approximately three and one
half feet apart, the ground giving me
80 hills. May 26 cultivated the soil,
but not disturbing the kernels, to
loosen the hard crust which had
formed after the heavy rains. June
fifth / saw the corn start to peep
above the ground and in few days
following they gradually came. except
few grains. June % / cultivated the
corn after long drought of severa
weeks, so as to preserve moisture.
July seventh the same was growing
fast in the warm and suitable growing
weather as the latter had helped the
former in stimulating itself for there
had been no rains yet, self for there
came heavy rainstorm in the morn
ing but settled up toward the after
noon, so gave it careful cultivation
in order to conserve the much needed
moisture. July IL with careful notice
| beheld 25 stalks in tassel and sever
had not reached that stage yet. July
25 noticed nine stalks had silk and al
of them were in tassel. July 20 cul
tivated it so as not to get weeds in il
at all. July 80 for curiosity's sake
pulled all the suckers to see what diff.
ference it would make in the yield,
which will be able to tell later on.
September l noticed the bluejays
start to come in my corn and they
seemed to always manage to get at the
largest ears. So pulled the 80 stalks
and hung them in shed. A few days
before the fair j husked all the corr
and pulled out my six ears.
"The number of hills being 80 and
yield 46 pounds of ear corn, which
would make an acre yield approximate.
ly 593 bushels of corn, with the suppo-
sition of the same averaging II pounds
per bushel. My idea of pulling the
suckers off stalks of the 16 hills was 9
failure for it seems as though the corr
was not filled out as well in them as in
the other sixteen hills"
WORTHY OF MENTION.
For the best corn raised in Barags
county: Ingebord Lundin, Bert Kent,
Theron DeLude, Valeria Scrantihi, Ad.
ria Anderson, all of Baraga, Mabe
Loosemore of Skanee and Phoebe Jack.
son of L'Anse, were announced as be.
ing worthy exhibitors.