The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-05-05
COTTON CONTEST
Best Short Staple to Win Valuable
Trophy

New York.-The American Land
land Irrigation exposition-the first
|great land show to be held in New
York City-will award the handsom'
est and most valuable prizes in the
history of American agriculture next
November. 1t awards $1,000 prizes
for cotton, corn, wheat, oats, parsley
hops and white potatoes and $500
cash for the best apples.
Colonel Robert M. Thompson OF
New York city has donated a beautl.
full silver trophy to be awarded fol
cotton. The cotton cup stands two
feet in height and weighs over zoe
ounces in silver. Its lines are full
of grace, and it represents a cotton
plant with it's white bolls.
The cup is to be awarded for the
best yield per acre of excellent short
staple cotton grown anywhere in the
United States. The yield per acre
per acre from which the winning
sample is chosen must be sworn to
and duly attested by three witnesses
of repute in the community. The
sample should be sent prior to No
vember to the American Land and
Irrigation exposition, Singer building,
New York city, with all charges pre-
paid. The sample should be two
pounds of short staple cotton. proper
ly wrapped in compact form with
accompanying smaller quantity o.
loose cotton protected by clot'. wrap
per.
The judges to make this ava I'd
probably will be appointed by the
president of the New York Cotton
Exchange.
To win this valuable silver trophy
offered by Colonel Thompson will
mean honor and glory to the success
full grower. 1t will mean that both
the grower and the state in which
he lives will receive such advertising
as will be hard to secure in any other
way. The particular district where
the cotton was grown and the man
who produced it will become famous
and land values in his district will
increase as consequence.
The following trophies are offered
for other winning exhibits:
Potatoes
$1,000 silver cup for the best acre
of marketable potatoes of certain
specified varieties; award to be based
on record of sworn weight of crop,
quality, etc., certain portion or all
of the prize crop to be on exhibition
at the exposition. Cup donated by
A. E. Stillwell president Kansas City,
Mexico and Orient Railway.
Sugar Beets
$1,000 prize cup for the best ex-
hibit of sugar beets. Cup donated
by H. o. Havemeyer, chairman of
Executive Board of the American
Sugar company.
200 prize cup for best exhibit
of 100 lbs of white oats; cup donated
by A. j. Earling, president of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
Railway.
Barley
$1,000 prize cup for the best ex-
hibit of one bushel of barley. Cup
donated by Colonel Gustave Pabst
of Milwaukee.
Wheat
81 900 prize cup and $1,000 in
gold to- be awarded for the best crop
record and exhibit of wheat. Prize
cup donated by James J. Hill, chair
man of Executive Board of Great
Northern Railway; cash prize donated
by Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, presi-
dena Canadian Pacific Railway.
Corn
$1,000 prize cup covering best ex-
hibit of corn, including yellow dent,
and Indian corn of all varieties. Not
less than thirty cars of corn will be
required to be- exhibited.
Cotton
$1,000 prize cup for the best ex-
hibit of cotton. Prize donated by
Colonel Robert M. Thompson of New
York city.
Apples
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