Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-11-14
PRIZES DISTRIBUTED
Trustees OF Anne Arundel Offer
Awards To Encourage Agri-
culture.
CORN WITH SAME" EARS.
DR.. Baldwin Announces Result OF
COntests-AnnapOlis Lad Wins $40.
Annapolis. Md, Nov. 1S, II.
, Al E1lsA r UL

Annapolis. Md, Nov. Is, II.
To the Editor Of The Capital:
On Saturday. November IL, the con-
test for the si40 worth Of prizes
offered by the trustees of Anne Arun-
del Academy was held at the Acad
emy. The trustees met in the morning
and appointed Col. A. w. Bond, Mr..
j. Fletcher Joy .e and Mr.. Edward
Hall of B. as judges to decide who had
select ed the best twelve ears of corn,
the best two ears on the stalk, and
the best ear of corn. They appointed
Mrs. H. B. CAN'T, Mrs. Fletcher
Joyce and Mrs. Rebecca Parsons to
decide as to who had baked the best
bread and canned the best fruit and
tomatoes.
In the afternoon the public gather
ing in the school room of the Academy
took place. DIR. Charles w. Bald yin
presided. The pupils of the Anne
Arundel Academy lead by the music
teacher, Miss Louise Matbcr, furnis
ed music, which was we'll received.
After stating the object of the
gathering, Mr.. Baldwin introduced
the speaker of the afternoon, Mr..
George T. Melvin, of Annapolis.
whose address was published in yes
terday's Capital.
DR.. Baldwin then introduced Prof.
Nicholas Schmitz, of the Maryland
Agricultural College, who was to ex-
plain how the contest for the best
acre of corn was conducted. He stated
that Professor Wilson, the assistant
agronomist of the M. A. c., had with
Prof. j. P. Burdette. of the A. A. A.,
gone around and hunted up all Of the
contestants and measured their acre
of ground. At that time the number
of ears of corn on the acre was noted
as we'll as their general size. He
then told how he and Professor Bur.
dette had gone around and weighed
the corn and again estimated the
number of ears and rotad n ejr size.
Then he explained M y g ia6 taken
samples of each acre of corn and
carried it to the college experimental
station and there, by proper ma
chinery, had tested each lot of corn
as to moisture so that each con-
testant would be judged upon the
same basis.
After making some excellent sug-
gstions as to growing corn, he was
followed by DR.. Samuel Garner.
DR.. Garner spoke of his interest in
the corn contest and told how he had
invited all the contestants to meet
him at Annapolis, and how they ha !
| seemingly ignored his invitation. But
he assured the contestants of his in
terest.
Prof. John p Burdette, principal
of the Academy, was then introduced,
and spoke for few minutes upon the
fact that of the thirteen contestants,
only six held out, and of those six two
were children of foreign born par
ents. He spoke of how in the Missis-
sippi Valley the land once owned by
the early settlers, was now owned by
their farm hands, and warned the
boys of Anne Arundel as to the same
fate if they were not willing to work
early and late and keep hold of the
| farms.
DR.. Baldwin then announced the re-
suits of the contest. Those having
| grown the best acres of corn were
First, J. Atlee Ridout, Annapolis, $40
second, Stephen Gomoljak, Camp Pa
role, $50; third, Herbert Hall, David
sonville, $40; fourth Edward Gertz,
Millersville, s5.
There was only one contestant for
tomatoes, Mary Gomoljak. of Camp
Parole, who received SIS. Two contest
ants for canned pears, Bernadine
Hoernivg, Odenton SIS, and Edgar
| Adams, Gambrils. $3.50.
There were also prizes offered fol
canned peaches and canned strawber-
ries, but no one competed.
While there was prize of $l2 fol
the best two loaves of light bread
there was only one contestant, Mis-:
Leah Fellows, Davidsonville. Her
bread was of such excellent quality
that it called forth the highest com
ments from the committee. There
ere no contestants for the prizes offer
ed for Maryland biscuits.
The greatest interest was shown by
the boys in selecting the best dozer
ears ofcorn. There were twelve whC
had selected corn. The prize, IS, go
ing to r. Atlee Ridout, who had wor
the first prize for the best acre OF
corn. For the two best ears on on,
stalk there were three contestant.
the prize going to Stephen Gomoljak
who had won second prize for bes
acre of corn. Berkley Courtney, o.
Millervsille, won the prize. 81, for the
best ear of corn.
The contest was voted a decided
success and the hope was expressed b,
those present that it was but the be
ginning of many of similar character
Deep regret was expressed that NOR,
of the girls had not competed for tn.
prizes for canned fruit and for tn.
bread.
GEORGE I. MELVIN.