Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-31
STATE contest EXHIBIT
ATTRACTING ATTENTION
COMPETITIVE EXHIBITS NOW DISPLAY EXPOSITION
BUILDING AWAITING e JUDGES WHICH
TWILL BE MADE WITHIN A FEW

For some years past, at least seven,
the department of agriculture of the
state of North Dakota has given pre-.
miums to the farmers of the state who
demonstrated by samples shown and
judged by unprecedented experts that
they produced good grain and feed.
During the first years, according
to the attaches of the Office, the ex-
hibits consisted almost wholly of
wheat. barley and oats, and the var
ieties of these were not alrge. But
by the exhibits made it was shown
that the North Dakota farmers were
capable of producing the finest crops
grown in the United States.
AS time went on the practice of
paying fitting tribute to industry
and the products of the field en-
couraged a lively contest for suprem.
acy, and as result of this rivalry
and the natural experiments every
pioneer INDUCES, succeeding exhibits
showed a greater diversity both in
the products and their variety. AS
a result corn and fax came among
the exhibits, the samples testifyine
in unmistakable language that North
Dakota.is corn state as we'll as the
greatest producer of fax of any com.
monwealth In the world. No pre-
tention is made to show that the prize
contests are responsible for these
magnificent results, but the claim
may be justly made that there culti-
walton was greatly encouraged by the
prize offerings and the general knowl.
edge gained by an aggregation of pro.
ducts from all sections of the state
to be viewed and commented upon
by the agricultural class.
1t is in but recent years that alfalfa
made its appearance, AMI :his great
forage crop is bound to be ore of
the greatest profit with which the
farmer has to deal. Alfalfa is now
grown successfully and profitably in
all sections of the state and as irri-
CATION takes firmer hold it is going
to be a great wealth producer and a
crop that never fails.
The North Dakota Exposition build
ing is at this time full of samples of
grain and grasses sent on for the
1911 contest. There is wheat. cats,
corn, flax, and grasses in every var
iety known to the civilized world.
are thirty-two varieties of oats.
Who would have believed that there
There are that many: and there may
)e more, but the remarkable feature
s that one man has thirty-two var
eties on exhibition crown on his |
North Dakota farm.
1t will do anyone COOL to see the |
exhibits collected here for the annual
contest. 1t does not matter whether
armer, banker, lawyer, or just plain
'itizen, scarcely anyone would be-
[eve that such an array of exhibits
you'd have been assembled in year
Vhen the croaker tells us our crops
re a failure.
1t is pleasing to visit this show
rom another viewpoint. 1t is good
D learn what all may be grown in the
tate in the. way of money producing
roducts.
Looking across to that table one
ees something lying there (which is
reminder Of. his youth in the far
way eastern state. Hazelhuts! Yes,
If, the real old fashioned bazelnuts
,e gathered in our youth, or if not
he identical ones, samples just like
hem, Some thoughtful exhibitor sent
4 bundle of bushes showing the
reen pods and the undeveloped seeds
8 we used to gather them before the
'ost came to open the hull and turn
he nut a beautiful brown. So hazel
uts grow in North Dakota. They
lay have been cultivated and they
lay grow wild. There is no record
, show. In fact none of the exhibits
how whence they came nor to whom
ley belong. There is just number
ssigned to each and when the judges
ass around, inspect them and award
Re premiums, it is necessary to con-
lit the catalog up in the commits.
oner of agriculture's office to tell
no are entitled to the prizes. J,
The writer viewed the three floors
these exhibits and marveled at
leir magnitude and variety, but one
the gentlemen in charge says that
lille the samples are Of greater var
ty they are not as large as in some
rmer years. He accounts for this
| the theory that many grain and