The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-11-30
CORNSHOW
IS HELD IN THE
COURT HOUSE
Many Fine Specimens OF
Corn Grown by Boys
and Girls Grown.
SPEECHES ARE MADE
And Awards Made by Judge
and Prizes Are Dis
tributed.

Girls Corn Show was held in the
court house Saturday, and the attend
ance was much larger than was ex-
pected by the people having the show
in charge. The fact that the day
was disagreeable and the people had
to come from great distance seemed
to have no effect on them and there
were fifty exhibits of corn to be
Judged and premiums to be awarded.
The program which was arranged
.o,start at 10 o'clock was an hour late
owing to the exhibits arriving late
and 1t took considerable time to place
and classify them. After this was
completed President Charles L. Lynch
opened the show with a short ad-
dress. in which he told the purpose
of the corn show.
Professor l. s. Cook. of the depart
ment OF agriculture, OF Morgantown,
was introduced and talked on PLANT
ing and Fertilizing the Corn Crop"
His talk was both interesting and
helpful to the farmers and was we'll
received.
= Prof Cook then started to Judge
the corn and several prominent
farmers were asked to make short
talks on their corn crops.
\ At 10 o'clock an intermisison
of an hour was taken while Profess
sor Cook judged much of the corn.
Immediately afternoon the an
nouncement was made that as there
were only seven exhibits of white
corn due to the fact that the expert
ment station did not send out any
white seed corn, the regular prizes
for the white corn would be set aside
and special prizes would be awarded,
A. P. Morrison, secretary of the
corn show, gave an interesting ad-
! dress on the aim and Purpose, of the
Corn Contest In his talk he set
forth the advantages the farmers
would receive by putting into prac-
tice the instructions they received
from men who had made lifetime
study of how to grow corn and how
1T would help their farms as the
scientific way of farming will keep
the soil in good codnition.
Professor Cook then gave short
talk on Utilizing the Corn Crop. /"
stating the many and useful needs OF
corn and he said the better the coru
the more useful 1t is.
4 A general discussion of all present
took place Immediately following
Z Prof. Cooks address, and many in
teresting points were discussed bv
Il the farmers.
Prof. A. w. Nolan, OF the college OF
agriculture, of Morgantown, was un-
able to be present, and the time set
for his address was filled by Prof
Frank Marsh, state superintendent OF
rural schools.
The last thing on the program
was an address, by Earl w. Sheets on
Methods of Improving the Corn
Crops. and 1t was very well received
and appreciated.
The prize winners were then an
nounced. in the first class. best ten
ears of white corn, the prizes were
set aside as no white seed corn was
sent out, but the prize money will be
used for prizes for next years corn
contest. In the second class, best
ten ears of yellow corn, the prizes
were awarded as follows:
l. Wilson swiger first, Lynn Pigott
second, Harry Goodwin third. Brooks
Randolph fourth. Ray swisher fifth
Harvey Bennett sixth, Claude vii,
liams seventh. Clarence Hammond
eighth, Ralph Perine ninth, and
Earl shahan tenth The suit oil
clothes awarded to the boy having
the best ten ears, by the United
Wooden Mills Company, was won by
l. Wilson swisher.
The prizes for, the seventh class,
boys and girls not in the contest and
the older contestants, were distributed
as follows:
First prize to unknown, Argyll Ritz
tenhouse second, and Willis Ritten-
house third.
The prizes in the eighth class or
white corn were awarded to Walter
Eib first and second, and Percy A.
White third.
Class five which was the essays on
My Corn Crop" had not been de.
cided at press time.
A meeting will be held Immediately
after the closing of the corn show to
arrange for another show next fall,
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