The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1911-02-09
Well Known Farmer and En-
pert Produced Bushel Of
Yellow Corn that Was Ad-
judged the Best.
EARL STEVENS WON
WHITE CORN PRIZE
Corn King" Clore Spoke at
Coliseum Last Evening
and a Number of Farmers
Heard Address.

Joseph Helms, prominent agricult-
urist residing near Centerville. pro-
duced the bushel OF yellow corn that
won first prize in the corn exhibit held
in connection With the Farmers Short
Course and Corn School. The bushel
of white corn entered by Earl Stev-
ems. living near Centerville. was grad
ed first in it's class. Although the
prizes for the best single ear and
group of ten ears were withdrawn on
account of lack of entries. a scoring
of the few single ears entered result
ed in first place being given to the en-
try of Edward Deitmeyer
The first prizes awarded TO Helms
and Stevens consisted of two two
horse cultivators. The other prizes
awarded are as follows: Second prize
yellow corn, fve-tooth cultivator,
Frank kuhlman, east of the city: Sec
ond prize, white corn. one-horse culti-
vator. Daniel Medearis, Center town
ship; first prize. mixed corn. one
horse Hoosier drill, Gaar Eliason,
Centerville; third prize. yellow corn,
lawn mower. Oliver Myers, east Of
Richmond; third prize, white corn.
lawn mower. Edward Deitemeyer,
north of Richmond; prize for white
corn. $50 pounds of fertilizer, c. NJ.
Hill, near Richmond.
Committee Disappointed.
But for the fact that all prizes
awarded were donated by merchants
and manufacturing concerns of Rich
mond. the exhibit would have proved
a costly failure. Only ten entries
were made in the bushel class and SO
few in the single ear and group OF ten
class that the committeeman felt
compelled to withdraw the money
prizes, ranging from 81 to SIS which
had been offered 1t was hoped by the
officials of the school to secure more
than one hundred entries from farm
ers in this vicinity, and they feel
sorely disappointed over the outcome.
All of the entries were auctioned Off
at the Leeds building where the ex-
hibit was held at noon today A to-
tai of $29.05 was netted in this man
ner. 1t will be used to defray the
general expense of the course. The
largest price paid was $40 bid by Ru-
dolph G. Leeds for the prize winning
bushel of Joseph Helms. d. H. Kuth
paid Sc for the two bushels of yellow
corn winning second and third prizes.
The rest of the corn averaged about
$1.25 per bushel.
Address by ciore.
L. B. Clore of johnson county, In.
inv ahay ri ~ hA
world, delivered a lecture at the Col
iseum last evening in the Farmers
Short Course on the methods of corn
production practiced by him. AS Mr..
Clore. who is also representative
| from Johnson county to the state leg
islature, has raised SO many prize
winning ears that he has been barred
from competing in the national con-
| tests on the ground that no other pro-
ducer is given chance, the farmers
of this vicinity followed him closely
| in his outline of the methods which
enabled him to grow the standard
ears and the large amount of bushels
per acre.
! Keen interest was manifested at all
times In the authoritative statements
of Mr.. clore and from the comments
at the close OF the lecture ii was
clearly evident that the farmers felt
repaid by this one event for their en-
| tire expense at the short course.
| Drainage according TO Mr.. Clore is
one OF the mos- important features in
corn production. He declared that
only the best results are obtained
when the field is properly and thor
oughly drained Mr.. C!ore said that
the system In use on his farm had
cost about $3.50 per acre, but that
results had fully justified the outlay.
The subject of fertilizers was given
particular attention by the speaker
Practically everything depends, he
| said upon securing the right kind OF
| fertilizer for the right soil. He adyo-
Gated a plan whereby various plots OF
| land should be treated with various
kinds of fertilizers for the purpose OF
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