Evening journal., 1911-11-22
PIG PRIZES FOR
The BEST CORN
State Association Also Adds
Money as Incentive for
Cereal Exhibit
SHOW PROMISES
TO BE THE BEST EVER

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER, Del. Nov. 22.-Prizes of
valuable things from plows 10 blooded
pigs, and premiums of money, from
ffty-cent pieces to five-dollar bills
will be given out in Dover a fortnight
hence at the annual corn show to
be opened here under the auspices Of
the Delaware Corn Show Association
aud managed by Professor A. E.
Grantham. the agronomist at Della
ware College.
Court House Hall and the old thea
tire above are already being made
ready for the exhibition. A feature
of this years show entirely new is
that wheat VIII be brought in 10 play
an important part in the exposition.
The State aud liberal appropria-
tions support and encourage the eNhi-
bition which is intended 10 teach all
farmers and corn growers how to
make two ears of corn grow whore
only one grew before and thereby
make Delaware richer in agricultural
resources and her people more pros
porous and useful TO mankind.
The program and prize list as COM
plcted here last night contain many
interesting features. The large cash
prizes. the sweepstakes. the plows and
the pigs are offered for the best gem
eral exhibit There will be county
and grange competition.
Then the premiums grade down to
prizes for best ten-ear exhibits OF va
rictes.
Glass + offers to each farmer a
chance TO mako cash as follows. the
first prize being a dollar bill and the
second fifty cents.
Boone County White, first prize, Sf;
second. so cents. Reeds Yellow Dent,
same; Leaning. same; Golden Beauty,
same; l00-day Bristol. same; Sussex
same; Delaware, same; Hickory King
same.
Glass G brings in the wheat. For
the best peck sample wheat grown in
1911. prizes will be given as follows:
Wheat grown in New Castle county
Red wheat first prize, so; second,
ST. White wheat. same.
Kent county and Sussex county,
each the same.
Then comes a general cereal com
petition among the growers so that
every successful grain grower in
Delaware, no matter how small, has
a chance in this prize contest.
For the best peck samples of the
following grains and seeds from the
state at large. grown during the sea-
SON OF 1911, these are the prizes
White oats-First. 81; second, 81
ccpts Black oats, same. Rye, same
nafloy. same
Soy bcans-Black. first, 50; second
SIS green first. 50: second, 81; vel
low first, 50: second. ST.
Cow pcas-Whipporwill, first. 81
second. 81. New Era, same, Black
same.
Field beans (whito)-First, 81: sec
0nd, 50. Rcd clover. same. Crimson
clover. same. Timothy. same. Buck
wheat, same.
Special soy bean prizes are also
offered because of the exceeding great
value of this product as cover and
winter green crop. and now i'm
dispensable as fertilizer. Delaware
College Experiment Station will offer
the following premiums for the larg-
est yield Of soy beans grown from the
f0ur-pound lots of seed distributed by
the station TO farms in the spring 0l
1871; the entire yield from the -four
pounds to be placed on exhibition with
tho owners name and address.
For the largest yield. first prize, So,
second prize, 81. from each of New
Castle, Kent and Sussex counties.
The show will be held on December
IA and i5.
Thursday, December IA will be dc.
voted to judging and TO shelllng OK
hibits in the yield contests. In The
afternoon, before the convention, ten.
minute addresses will be made by the
three men who secured the highest
Yields per acre in i911-Arnold Nau.
dain, Of Marshallton; j.. IT, Shall
cross, OF McDonough. and Alonz'
Nhittock. Of Odessa. The exhibit, up
.--s'airs, will be open 20 the publ,
throughout the day.
I'm the evening. at o'clock. 4
stereOpticon lecture on Wheat Grow
ing will be given by Professor A. i
Grautham Of the Delaware College
Experiment Station.
On Friday. December rs. at 1l
o'clock. President Henry p. Cannon
Of the Delaware Corn Growers AS
sociation, will deliver the opening
address. G. n. Collins, Of the Bu
reau Of Plant Industry. Washington
Will speak on Breeding as Means
OF Increasing Our Yields Of Corn.
The report Of the secretary and an.
nual election Of officers will close tn.
morning session.
At 1.30 o'clock Professor n. Smitz
agronomist of the Maryland Expert
mcnt Station, College Park. Nd. vii
speak on Some Factors Affecting the
Yield OF Corn" Professor A. 2
Crantham Will address the convention
on "The Relation Of Legumes 10 Gair
Growing" Discussion will be invited
at the close Of each address. but
these must be limited
Al the corn. show an entrance fo'
OF 80 cents is required from each ex.
hibitor and this fee will entitle him
10 full membership in the society 70,