Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-08-25
ROCKY FORD, COLORADO FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1911.
$1,000 IN PRIZES
Offered at the Big Land Show to be
Held in New York.

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Held in New York.
Colorado is going to the New
York land show. prepared to win
prizes. This show, officially known
as the American Land and Irrigation
Exposition will be held in New York
City Nov. 3 to IL. Because of the
fact that products from all parts of
the North American continent will
be brought into competition here,
this show will be the most important
exDosition of the kind held during
the year.
For Colorado to win any of the
prizes offered in competition with
every other state in the Union and
with Canada will mean untold benefit
to the state. The county furnishing
the prize winning exhibit will also Sc
cure much publicity and advertising
of value to be secured in no other
way.
Prizes in gold coin and solid silver
cups to the amount of $1,000 are Of
fered for the best exhibits, of oats,
alfalfa, potatoes, sugar beets and the
like. This county should furnish
some prize winning exhibits. The
Denver Chamber of Commerce is
now arranging to secure prize win
ming exhibits from the state fair, the
various county fairs and from individ-
uals and have the same collected in
Denver. Expert judges will then be
secured, and the best of the best Sc
lected. This is the exhibit that it is
planned to take to New York.
An exhibit of this kind will it is
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than simply large display. This is
county to be represented at the New
York show. There is practically no
expense All that is asked is that
every farmer and fruit ROVER in the
state aid in securing the best pro-
ducts grown in Colorado.
The prizes offered are as follows:
$1,000 cup for wheat-donated by
James ]. Hill. chairman of the Great
Northern Railway, for the best 100
lbs. of wheat grown in the United
States in 1911.
$1,000 in gold for wheat-donated
by Sir Thomas Shaughnessy. presi-
dent of the Canadian Pacific Railway,
for the best 100 lbs. of hard red
wheat, spring or winter. grown on
either continent of America in 1911.
$1,000 cup for corn-donated by
The International Harvester Com
pany of America for the best thirty
ears of Indian corn. of any variety.
grown in the United States, in 1911.
$1,000 cup for oats-donated by A.
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, for
the best 100 lbs -ef oats~raised- in the
United States in 1911.
SIooO ctD for cottOu-dOnated by
Colonel Robert M. Thompson, New
Cork City, for the best short staple
cotton grown in the United States in
1911.
$1,000 cup for potatoes-donated by
A. +. Stilwell. president Kansas City,
Mexico and Orient Railway, for best
exhibit of marketable late potatoes
grown in noII.
$500 cup for barley-donated by
Colonel Gustav Pabst OF Milwaukee,
for the best bushel of barley grown
in the United States in 1911. Colonel
Pabst will also purchase all the crop
of the prize winner at a fancy price.
$1,000 cup for sugar beets-donated
by Horace Havemeyer. Jr., New
Cork City, for the best sugar beets
grown in the United States in 1911.
$500 in gold for apples-donated
ny iio"ai E.iiio't, p'e'uS"s Va ~
Northern Pacific Railway. for the
best IS boxes of apples OF any variety
or varieties, grown anywhere in the
world.
$1,000 cup for hops-donated by
Mr.. Adolphus Busch of St. Louis, for
the best variety of hops grown in the
United States in 1911.
$1,000 cup for alfalfa-donated by
Paul l.. Van Cleve, president Sweet
Grass Land and Livestock Company.
Melville, Montana, for best exhibit
of alfalfa.