Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1911-10-12
SILVER CUPS AS
CORN PRIZES
TRIAL sHOW-sOME OF
THE COUNTY BOOTHS
tions-Large Display of Vegeta-
bles and Root Crops

bles and Root Crops
Bismarck, N. D., Oct. 7.-Prizes
for the best county exhibits at the
North Dakota Industrial Exposition
were awarded last evening as fol-
lows: Eddy county, first, $500;
Wells county, second, $500; Emmons
county, third, 5000; Mercer county,
fourth, 500; Morton county, fifth,
$50; Burleigh county scored the
highest but was not entered in COM
petition for the prize money.
The awarding was done by Prof.
Holden, dean of the extension depart
ment of the Iowa State Agricultural
College at Ames.
Among the interesting and beauti-
full exhibits shown at the Industrial
Show at Bismarck are the first and
second prizes offered by the Carlos
N. Boynton Land Co., of St. Paul,
for the best ears of corn. These
prizes are large, elegant, silver vases
and any one who secures one of
these beautiful trophies will prize it
throughout life. The counties for
which these prizes are intended for
the best 1911 corn specimens are:
Stutsman, Emmons, Kidder, Logan
ably engraved. The cup for the first
prize is large urn-like receptacle,
with handles on either side and the
second prize is a smaller silver cup
of the same design, also suitably en-
graved.
In every booth which the visitor
enters there is something new and
different from the last one, altho
of course most of the exhibits Of
crops and vegetables, grains and
grasses are necessarily similar. But
the immense variety of resources of
the state is shown by even a slight
examination of the exhibits from var
ious counties.
Eddy County
The exhibit of Eddy county prepar-
ed by w. G. Dresser and J. H. john
son, is one of the best in the build
ing, showing great care in prepara-
ton. The exhibit looks handsome
from a little distance and bears close
inspection as to what is shown.
Some splendid specimens of durum
wheat are shown also of Scotch fife
velvet chaff and oats, with two, four,
and six-rowed barley. The wheat
average for the county this year will
20 about II bushels and durum 1S.
The corn exhibit is also good and the
winter rye, buck wheat and other
crops shows what Eddy county farm
ers have been able to raise. Most of
the specimens were secured by the
holding of a market day. Vegeta-
bles, alfalfa, broom grass, clover and
timothy were also shown in abund-
ance. A foreign vegetable called
Hungarian chard, which can be pre-
pared something like a cabbage and
cauliflower, was shown, having big
growth. The tops are said to be fine
for greens. The crab apple showing
of w. G. Miller proves that no finer
crabs are raised anywhere In any
country. There are tame plums,
first cutting of alfalfa from seeds
sown in June, broom grass feet
high, field peas feet high, immense
broom millet or hog millet as 1t Is
called; timothy and cucumbers, one
of which is 20 inches long. There
are also black winter radishes that
are white inside and good keepers.
The rutabegas, beets, squash and
eight kinds of potatoes shown, dem
onstrate what can be done In root
crons IN the James River Valley.
Potters Clay
One of the chief exhibits in the
stark county booth is the potters
clay, for the manufacture of all kinds
of earthern ware. Good specimens
Of oats and fax are also shown. A
little history of the county shows
that from 1882 to 1896 its principal
Industry was the raising of horses,
which were ranged free on the prai-
RES. From 1896 to 1911 the change
shows that everything in the way OF
crops and livestock, and particularly
dairying, has taken the place of the
horse industry.
In Emmons county the chief exhi-
bit is a splendid display Of corn, pre-
served Wild fruits and vegetables.
Mercer county. west Of the Ms