The evening times., 1911-07-24
$1,000 WHEAT CUP IS
ON DISPLAY
IN CITY
Great Exposition in New York
Will Show Resources of
the West

Inc magnlncent $1,000 silver cup
offered by James ]. Hill for the best
100 pounds of wheat raised in the
United States in 191- and exhibited
at the American Land and Irrigation
exposition, is now on exhibition in the
window of the Dacotah pharmacy.
This is doubtless the finest trophy
ever exhibited in this state A solid
silver cup is mounted on an ebony
base, the whole standing nearly five
ftet in heighte. The top is surmount-
ed by bundle of golden grain. On
one side of the cup is an engraved
threshing scene and around the base
are stalks Of wheat.
The prize is in charge of o. w. Sea-
ton, immigration agent for the Great
Northern railroad. He has brought
the cup into the state for the pur-
pose of interesting the farmers in
the big exposition and getting them
to make exhibits. This state should
make strong bid for the prize. The
winner would secure not only fame
for himself but for the state. The
"breadbssket of the world" should
maintain it's reputation.
The wheat prize is only one OF the
many that are offered at this great
exposition. Sir Thomas Shaughnes-
sey of the Canadian Pacific has do
mated $1,000 in gold for wheat. The
international Harvester company Of
fers $1,000 silver cup for corn. A. ].
Earling, president Of the Chicago, Mil
waukee est. Paul railway will give
q $1,000 cup for oats. Another 81 900
cup is offered by A. e. Stillwell,
president of the Kansas City, Mexico
and Orient railway for potatoes. A
beautiful 1,500 cup for barley is Of
fered by Col. Gustav Pabst of Mil
waukee. Horace Havemeyer, Jr, Of
fers $1,000 cup for sugar beets;
Adolphus Busch of st. Louis, similar
cup for hops and Paul L. Van Cleve,
president of the Sweet Grass Land &
Live Stock company, Melville. Mont,
another $1,000 cup for alfalfa. How
ard Elliott, president Of the Northern
Pacific railway, offers $500 in gold
for the best apples.
These prizes will be awarded by
experts to be appointed by James Will
son, secretary of agriculture from
that department.
Means National Honor
Cultivators of the soil winning any
of these prizes will secure for them
selves national honor. The territory
and the farmer who win the coveted
wheat prizes will become famous,
and land values and settlements will
increase in the Successful district.
Every progressive, intelligent and
ambitious farmer is in a position to
try for one or more of these prizes.
1t means only little extra care in
growing crop, a little more work
and a few simple conditions to be
complied with.
Objects Are Two.Fold
The exposition will be held in
Madison Square garden, November
to 49, Governor John Burke of this
state is member of the governing
board and advisory board.
The object Of the exposition will
be two-fold-to stimulate interest in
farming and Improvement of the land
and to show the great rewards which
can be gained from scientific agricul-
ture. One of the reasons for holding
the exposition in New York is to give
the 100000 people living in that vi
cinity an idea of the vast resources
of our country and of the tremen-
dous practical advances which have
been made in recent years.
The exposition will give thousands
of immigrants an opportunity to learn
something of the agricultural re-
sources and possibilities of America.
With panorama, relief maps, exhibits
Of soils and their products, illustrat-
ed lectures, literature and by word
of mouth of growers and agents, agri-
cultural America will be demonstrst-
ed to the incoming interested foreign
trs as we'll as to visiting farmers and
members of rural communities of
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
| and New England.