Smyrna times., 1911-12-20
KENT CARRIES OFF MANY
HONORS At CORN SHOW
T. D. GARRISON AND E. A. EVANS,
CHESWOLD, AMONG THE LUCKY
Naudain and Son, of Middletown, Win
Several Prizes-State Corn Show
at Dover Largely Attended

at Dover Largely Attended
The Delaware State Corn Show
fell off in attendance Thursday from
that of previous years although the
exposition itself held its own in
point of exhibits and developed some
entirely new features. The decrease
in attendance was attributed to two
causes; first, because it was too
near Christmas, and people and
farmers in particular are in the
midst of poultry and other Christmas
preparations, could not go; second,
the Delaware State Grange was in
session at Lewes, losing it's annual
convention. Some of the attendants
advocated that the place of holding
the show be changed from Dover,
but this is not likely as this is the
headquarters of the State Board of
Agriculture, offering most Of the
prizes and there are numerous publci
buildings and halls there to reduce
the cost of holding the show. Pres
ident o. A. Newton and Vice Pres
ident Newton L. Grubb, of the State
Board of Agriculture, were early
arrivals as were also Arnold Nau-
dain, of Marshallton, and James T.
Shallcross, Jr., of Odessa, two of
the three winners in the acre con
tests. The third winner, Alonzo S.
Whittock. of New Castle county,
was sick and could not get there.
The prize program stated that Eu-
gene Shallcross had won the second
prize for the largest yield per acre,
but the name should have been
James 7. Shallcross, Jr., son of the
late vi e-president of the State
Board of Agriculture and himself an
enthusiastic and sturdy farmer.
Among the new features introduced
in the special effort to make domi.
nant the cover crops, are many vari-
eties of soy beans. These seem to
have suddenly sprung into great
popularity. One visitor, examining
the fine white soy heans, asked of
one of the professors "These beans
look good enough to eat. Are
they" elf cooked right, they
are the finest vegetable in the
world" "Well, why don't we all
eat them because a farmer
won't eat them because he has to
pay as much for a quart as two
quarts of oysters, and a consumer
won't for the same reason.
Delaware Farms to be Improved
Delaware farms and the country
in general will look fresh and greer
all winter instead of dead and dried
up, if the State argiculturl author
jtesi and experts have their way as
they demonstrated it in the annual
corn show which opened in Dover
Thursday. Soy beans, COW peas,
the vetches, alfalfa and wheat, some
of which make beautiful green
fields all winter and serve as ferti.
lizer cover crops and product fol
granary and silo are being urged
upon every farmer. The results are
wonderful. ]. C. Cowgirl exhibited
eight bushels of soy beans which h'
produced from four pounds of seed
Farmers all over the State wer,
given the four pounds for this con
test--to see which grower coulC
multiply the grains of the legumes
Professor A. E. Grantham, stat,
agronomist spoke on 1.-THE Relation
of Legumes to Grain Growing. ,
Kent county shows a slight falling
off in the number of exhibits thiG
year, and the exhibition will, there
fore, not be so large as that of 1909
the biggest year. Much of tn,
shortage in Kent is due from in
tense dry weather, but some of tn
shrinkage is made up in the othe
counties exhibits. Prominent whea
exhibitors, the new feature, are J
W. Killen, of FELTON,; Naudain an,
Son, of Marshallton, and Horce Dill
worth, of Montchanin. The cor
shows up we'll, denoting a continues
improvement. The entry fee nov
charged to automatically make al
exhibitors members of the Delawar
Corn Growers Association has ais
caused a slight decrease.
Prize Winners as Follows
New Castle county carried off tn
lions share of the honors at tn
Delware State Corn Show when tn
prize winners were announced, whic
speaks well for the upper end of tn
State and its agricultural interests
However, the two lower eountie
we're decidedly in the running an
the competition was very close a.
around. Each county CARED off som
= of the first prizes. The award
were as follows: Corn-Class A
section BEST 20 ears of whit
corn-First prize, Sc, James I