The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-13
Worlds Greatest
Wheat Prize
Five thousand dollars for the hos,

Five thousand dollars for the hes,
five bushels of wheat, any variety.
grown in h American northwest is
the prize announced as the grand
champion sweepstakes to be awarded
at the northwestern Products expo
Sition 10 be held in MINNEAPOLIS Nov.
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Thls is the worlds greatest prize for
"hrat-twice as large AS any prize ev-
err offered i'm Canada, five times as
much as any prize ever offered for
n class of grain in the United States.
announcement of his aware has
JUST be"n made by tho Northwest De-
Nelopment league. under the auspices
OF Whlch organization the seven states
give the products exposition. The
states Included in the American north
West. as represented by the league,
are Minnesota. North Dakota. South
Dakota. Montana, Idaho, Washington
and Oregon.
\ Practical Prize.
n prize consists of a Big -Four
30 farm tractor manufactured by
the Gas Traction company of Mime
apolis II Winnipeg and a set of
pioWs manufactured by the Emerson
israntingham Plow company of Rock
ford. III. These desiring
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TO grow more and better wheat. have
given the league the outfit for certain
considerations and the seven states
Will compete for the sweepstakes
prize.
winning this prize means that
wheat awarded prizes at seven state
fairs and scores OF county, fairs win
be selected by a process of elimination
ana hnally entered at the Northwest
erh exposition in the grand
champion sweepstakes class. There
VIII ne nothing in the rules. however.
10 prevent a grower exhibiting wheat
Wh1ch has not been shown at any fair.
but which will be entered for the first
Tune to win the $4,000 prize.
Judging of the wheat will be done
by the accepted authorities on wheat
judging in the United States.
f1v" bushel samples of threshed
gram Will be required and they must
De exhibited with ten bundles from
the same field which must he from six
TO ten inches in diameter. The thresh-
ed grain will be Judged. not only by
us eSterna! appearance. but a certain
part will be milled and baked into
bread. a given number of points being
allowed Tor the results in the milling
and baking tests.
The Northwest Development 1es r,.
will undertake to deliver the farm
tractor and plows to the winner free
of cost. ~
What Tractors Will Do.
The Big -Four 30" farm tractor and
rloWs We're selected for a prize he
cause OF their practicability. There
is no agency which is playing q more
important part in the development of
the northwest Than the modern farm
tractor. All over these seven states
INC giant horses are cutting the broad
prairies into fertile farms. The wheat
FIELDS are already dotted with then,
Every tractor placed in tho northwest
viii turn hundreds of acres of prairie
INTO productive farms, making homes
Tor settlers. creating traffic and nov
wealth. "
ofhcers of the Northwest D~eveJon-
ment league nave been
s,vlne a champion sweepstakes prize
since the close Of the Land show"
held in st. Paul in 1911. They dec;d.
ed carly to give a farm tractor and
ploWs. anu
As Good as Gold.
Big Four 80" was selected as
the nest engine: the Emerson plows
as n most desirable tools to he oh
famed. ~ the terms offered the
.easue could have secured most any
panN's engine was selected and ne.
gotlatlons opened for securing the
great engine. The manufacturers ZEN
erously offered to donate the tractor
on certain terms and their offer u,s
accepted. 'H was
Thus the worlds greatest prize for
wheat is offered, The Big Four go"
tractor has won the gold medal two
years c~onsecutively in the worlds az
ricultural motor competition at Winni.
peg II this had much to 10 with its
selection by the Development Iearue
The outfit is considered as Desirable
a prize as an equivalent amount If
goid. as these automobile work horses
are revolutionizinG farming ali over
such q tractor cnabies q farmer IN
almost DO away with horses. Break,
ing and t%hreshing are not the on1v
tnlnes which the Big Four 3 o trac.
tor will do. 1t Will work in soft ground
drilling. dragging. discing. h%arrowins
and harvesting. 1t has high. broad
wheels which will work where horses
annot get a fnothold. They distri'
nute n weight of the tractor tn s,ch
an extent that the pressure under N"
or'vers IS less per square inch Than
under a horses hoof, ~