The Dickinson press., 1912-06-08
Five Thousand Dollars Value
Tor Five Bushels Of Grain.
SEVEN STATES TO COMPETE

Five thousand dollars for the best
i've bushels of wheat, any variety,
grown. in the AMERICAN Northwest is
the prize announced as the grand
champion sweepstakes to be awarded
at the Northwestern Products Exposi.
ton to. be held in Minneapolis Nov. IL
to 20.
This 10 the worlds greatest prize
for wheat-twice as large as any, prize
eyer offered In Canada, five, times 8
much las any prize v offered for
any class,of grain in the United States.
Announcement of this award has
Just, been made by: the Northwest De
'velopment League, under: the. auspicies
.of.which. organization: the seven states
give the products exposition. The
included in the AMERICAN
Northwest, as represented by the
League, are Minnesota. North Dakota,
South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Wash.
'ington and Oregon.
.AsPracticaI- Prize.
The prize consists of a Big tFon.
'".30" farm tractor manufactured by the
Gas Traction Company of Minneapolis
and Winnipeg and q set of plows
manufactured by the :Emerson-Brant-
ingham .Plow Company of Rockford,
III. These companies, desiring to en-
! courage farmers of the Northwest 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 g that wheat
awarded prizes at state fairs
and cores of county fairs will be Sc
lected by a process of elimination and
finally entered at the Northwestern
Products Exposition in the grand
champion sweepstakes cclass. There
will he nothing in the! rules, however,
ITO: prevent a grower exhibiting wheat
which. has not been, shown at any fair,
ibut which will. be enteredrfo the first
time ito win the 5000 prize.
Judging OF the wheat will be done
lby the accepted authorities on wheat
Judging. in the United. States.
Five ;bushel samples of .threshed
grain will he required and they must
he exhibited With ten bundles from
the field which must be from six
to, ten inches in diameter. The threshed
grain will be Judged, not only by its
external appearance but a certain
ipart will sbe .milled and baked into
bread, a given number of points be
ling allowed fol-; the results in the mill
ing and baking tests.
NH Norfhryoo& and. r ~
will undertake to deliver the farm
tractor and :plows to the winner free
OF cost.
,What Tractors Will Do.
The Big -Four $50" farm tractor and
p1ows were selected for a prize be-
cause of their ;;p~racticability. There
is nc agency which is playing a more
important part in the development of
the Northwest than the modern farm
tractor. All over these seven states
the giant horses ARE cutting the broad
prairies into fertile farms. The wheat
fields are already dotted with them.
Every tractor placed in the North
west will turn hundreds of acres of
prairie into productive farms, max
ing homes for settlers, creating traffic
and new wealth.
Of1cers OF the Northwest Develop
ment League have been considering
giving a champion sweepstakes prize
since the close OF the 'tlaRd show"
held in st. Paul in 1911. They decided
early to give q farm tractor and plows.
A. Good ~ Gold.
The Big -Four 3 was selected as
the best engine: the Emerson plows
as the most desirable tools to be OBJ
tained. BY the terms offered the
League could have secured most any
tractor, but the Gas Traction con
pany.s engine was selected and nego-
kAations opened for securing the great
engine. The manufacturers generous
" offered to donate the. tractor on
certain terms and their offer was ac-
eepted.
Thus aAhe worlds greatest prize for
wheat Il offered. The Big -Four "3O"
tractor has won the gold medal two
years coasecutively in the worlds ag-
r~icultural rector soompetition at Win
nipes and this had much to do with
its selection BY the Development
League. The eatdt 1s considered as
desirable q prize AZ an equivalent
amount Of gold. Al these automobile
work horses are revclutiopdzaag farm
ing all over the world.
Such a tractor enables a farmer to
ai4ost do away with horses. Break
ing and threshing are not the only