Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-05-18
TRY FOR THE PRIZES

Every farmer and every farmers
boy and girl in Marshall county
should make an effort to capture the
big prizes for farm products that are
offered this year at the Big Land
Shows to be held in st. Paul and New
York and at the Canadian Exposition.
A gentleman who is anxious that
Minnesota shows up we'll in this con-
test makes the following appeal:
$1,000 in Cash and $1,000 Cup.
Canada viii lhave an exhibit. The
Northwest farmers must not only win
James j. Hills $1,000 cup, but must
win the $1,000 cash prize offered for
the best wheat in the world. You OF
the Northwest should endeavor to
beat Canada---you should try hard to
win this $1,000 prize. We have got to
make good! Won't you help the
Northwest win these prizes? Start
now.
If the South or Canada should take
the prize which rightfully belongs to
your state, you will lose a big adver-
tlsing asset. You will be proud and
happy if your state wins one or all of
these prizes. To, win means a recog
milton for your state as a leader
among states, your county as the ban
ner county in the banner state and
will make talking point that will be
heard all around he world. Don't
you think that, as citizen-as
Northwest farmer-you ought to COM
pete and get your neighbor to try and
bring home these valuable prizes?
Think how much it would increase
the value of your land to win such a
prize. Think how much you could sell
the rest of your seed for Think of
the remarkable advertising value this
would be to your county, your state,
to the Northwest. 1t would cost hun
dreds of thousands of dollars to pro-
duce such favorable comment bv any
other method.
Every Farmer Should Try 1t.
2 Every progressive, intelligent, and
up-to-date farmer-every farmer who
has a spark of pride for his locality,
his state and his country, should try
for these prizes.
It only means a little extra care a
few simple conditions and little
work and the James J. Hill cup, and:
the $1,000 in gold, or one of the other
valuable prizes may be yours You are
not doing the right thing for your
state or yourself if you don't at least
try.
Start Now.
Remember that every step of /. your
farming this year counts. Your plow-
ing, narrowing, etc., the preparation
of your seed bed, the selection of
your seed, it's careful disinfection and
planting, the cultivation of your fields
after planting; every one of these op-
erations is step toward the prize.
Jas. J. Hill $1,000 Cup for Wheat
James J. Hill, chairman of the
Great Northern railway, offers a
$1,000 prize silver cup for the best
100 pounds Of wheat grown in the
United States in 1911 and exhibited at
the American Land and Irrigation ex-
sition, November 3 to IL, 1911. Any
grower in the United States can COM
pete for this valuable cup. Here are
the conditions:
The facts asked must be sworn to
and attested by two witnesses. Wheat
must be exhibited by actual grower.
Yield per acre, general appearance
and weight, trueness to variety and
type, method of preparation of land,
what crops grew on land for three
years previous, date of sowing and
method, amount of seed sown, date of
harvesting, are conditions that will
govern.
$1,000 Cup tor Corn.
The International Harvester Com
pany of America offers a $1,000 cup
for the best corn grown in the United
States. Thirty ears to- be exhibited
(any Indian CORN, productiveness,
breed type, chemical composition for
food values and general appearance
are the main points.
$1,000 Cup for Oats.
A. j. Earling, president of the Chi:
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railway,
offers a $1,000 prize cup for the best
100 pounds of white oats raised in the
United States. Quality, weight, yield
per acre, purity, freedom from smut,
weed seed and mixture will be consid-
cred.
$1,000 Cup for Alfalfa.
The American Land & Irrigation
Exposition's manager expects to an
nounce, in few days, that a $1,000