The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-12-05
SOUTH ATLANTIC
CORN EXHIBITION
The "Corn King" viii be there
in all His Power of Divini-
tion---Who He is and How
He Works---Bi Event Be.
gins December Twelfth

Columbia, S. c., Dec. 2.-To See
the Corn King of America walking
along in front of rows upon rows OF
splendid corn. comparing each sam
pie with the other till finally his train
ed eye has found the superb prize
winner of all the show, will! be the
privilege Of the hundreds of farmers
who visit the South Atlantic Corn
Exposition on Tuesday, December
18th.
L. B. CIore is the King, and he
comes from Franklin. Indiana, for
the urpos Of judging corn at the
South Atlantic Exposition. and it Will
be a rare treat to watch him at work,
and to talk with him and find out the
why and wherefores of the game. Mr..
ClOre is a busy man and it was with
dlf1lculty that the management OF the
Exposition persuaded him to leave
his farm hong enough to come down
here. For twenty years straight his
farmer worked quietly on his farm,
stuoy1ng the corn plant and its pro-
duct, n ear Of corr and when fin
ally he had perfected what seemed to
him a pretty fair type of corn he
went through his broad acres and
from the whole selected ten of the
best ears that grew there, put them in
a sack and boarded a train for Chi
cago to attend the First National
Corn Exposition. which was then in
progress. The rest of the tale reads
like a The ten ears of corr
won a farm in Texas for Mr.. Clore.
and some cold cash besides, and then
Tor good measure gave him world
wide publicity.
In 1919 no roDt 70 o~.L
tend the second National Exposition,
and his ten-ear sample won so many
prizes that he was forced to charter
a furniture car in which to bring
them back to Indiana. The total VAL
ue or the prizes won by the same ten
ears OF corn was $2,250. The inhabi-
ltants OF the corn world began to
stretch, rub their eyes, called a mass
meeting and then and there decided
that Mr.. C1cre would have to stay out
OF n race for 1909. so as to give
the rest Of the good corr people a
cnance to catch up. n he did. How
ever, he was given a bigger job. From
among the rs expert judges as
senbled from all parts Of the country
to decide on the relative merits OF
the $1,000 ears Of corn exhibited. his
man Clore was chosen to be the judge
III cnleI or all the judges. and he it
was who dispensed the $780, 900 in
prizes and was counted the "~fairest
judge in all t~he>land."
NOW comes the Gar OF Russia, who,
desiring that his farmers should grow
more corn and better corn than thew
nave ever grown before writes to Clore
a letter that ne should cross the wa
ter n spend a few years in Russia
them how. But Clore wa.
busy growing more corn on his own
farm n getting elected to his sec
ono term In h Indiana Legislature,
and SO he sat down to his
n with two fingers picked out the
letters which spelled "turn-down" to
the Gar. But although this Corn
hlnS man is now being urged to run
Tor governor Of his State Just to give
MS clio farmers a chance tn vote
Tor him, he has consented to snare
the time to come South and nudge
corn eat corn and talk corn to and
win the rme who visit the South
Corn Exposition on Tuesdav
December 18th.
Mr.. Chores 1~9-year-old son was an
at the Columbus National
corn ExDosition, and his ten-ear
sample won the Grand Championship.
me beautiful $1,000 trophy now be-
exhibited in Sylvan's window in
is h property Of Roy
Ciore and will remain his until the
next Exposition, which is to be held
in Columb ia in 1913, when il is agsin
offered for worldwide comnetit;o5
MI. Clore and Jerry Moore will
PROBABLY arrange to have a corn din
ner together while MIR. Clore is in the
Good seed Of any kind is half the
ca'tie, SO what the use in planting
that is not OF the very best
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