Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1912-11-14
JUDGED COUNTY
CORN CONTEST
INTERESTING EXERCISES AT THE
ANNUAL sTUTsMAN COUN-
TT CORN SHOW.
List OF Winners Of the Corn and PO-
tato Prizes. Next Years Z
Z Program. @2

tato Prizes. Next Years q
sS Program.
Prof. Palmer Of the state agricul-
tf,ral college, was present at the city
fsil in jamestown Monday, and
judged the corn contest for Stuts-
man boys and girls, and made the
awards for the potato exhibits.
Prof. Palmer saiI that the display
Of Stutsman county corn and pota-
toes was the best he had yet scored,
and he had passed upon, the exhib-
it's In several Of the older counties
Of the state, such as Richland and
Sargent counties. IA. q
3here were $50 entries, ninety of
T,.-tatoes and sixty Of corn. They.
were raised in all parts Of the coun-5
IT,. The hall was we'll filed with
children from the various schools In
the county except in the extreme
northern and southern parts. The
schools of Medina, Cleveland, Spir-
itwood. Buchanan and Bloom were
well represented both by pupils and
teachers. Many of the pupils had
e4tries in both contests. The Bu-
chanan school came down in body.
B Great interest was taken in the
proceedings and the afternoon was
enlivened by entertainment on the
part Of some Of the pupils. Miss
McEwen's school in the Dunlap dis
strict rendered an original recitation
liz q very happy manner. Mrs.
Wadeson's school in Bloom district
rendered several songs. Jessie Cusa-
tor recited a poem. Pupils from
both the Bloom schools were pres
ent. President Kroeze of jamestown
College spnke Of the necessity Of the
sEoune- fsrmer Of .todayss.l learning
modern agricultural training. 9th
er speakers were A. F. Borchert, bet
ter farming expert; Rev. Phillips,
John Knauf. Mayor Blewett, J. B..
RArgster and Prof. Palmer. The
last named gave an interesting dem
onstration on what constituted good
corn, and the points involved in its
successful growth.
Miss McGinnis, county superin-
tendent. introduced the speakers, ex-
plained the awarding of the prizes,
and outlined the program for next
year. She said the contest will be
broadened out, and instead of one
general county contest and exhibit,
there will be in addition several lo-
cH contests and exhibits. to allow
other parts of the county to more
conveniently participate. The coun-
ty is large, and the extreme north-
ern, southern and western parts Of
the county cannot be easily repre-
.santed, as the distance is too great
f1S the pupils and teachers to attend
the contest at jamestown. Prizes
for sewing, bread and jelly making
will be added for the girls.
The seed corn is known as Min
snesota No. 23. an early variety. The
seed was furnished by the state ag--
ricultural college, and distributed
by Superintendent McGinnis about
the goth of May. The corn was
planted the last week in May. The
seed potatoes were secured in
jamestown and are the Early Ohio
variety. The winning potatoes were
not the largest, but Of medium size.
smooth, sound. the best to sell, to;
keep and to eat. and were uniform
ia size. Among the other exhibits
was q fine display of celery, and also
q few onions, both from the state
hospital grounds. Herbert Hohen-s
house captured two prizes. the first
for corn and the second for otatoes.
! g Prize scholarship.
John Knauf added an Increased
interest TO the object Of the corn and
potato contest, by offering . scholar
ship In Jamestown College to the pu-
Spil Of the country school gradual
ing from the eighth grade. outside
OF the city, who prepared the best
.essay on farm life and agricultural
topics. The essay will be judged
next August. sch holarship II the
jamestown College is an object
worth working for. and Judge
KnAuf,s ofter was eceived with ii
igIr,eat dsal of' satiafa action by every
pupil Or Will be eligible TO-
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express u al1 every such exhibit re-
oelyed Was placsd on Sew
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