The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1912-07-25
0fFERS BIG Prize
FOR BEST WHEAT
Five Thousand DOLLARS Value
for Five Bushels Of Grain
SEVEN STATES 10 COMPETE
Northwestern Products Exposition At
Minneapolis seosses elg Pour Asso'
Farm Tractor end Equipment 10
Award Grower Of aase Wheat In
AMERICAN Northwest

Award Grower Of 6eok Wheat IN
AMERICAN Northwest
Five thousand dollars for the best
0ve 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. 12
to %.
This IL the worlds greatest prize
TOR wheat-twioB as large as any prize
ever offered IN Canada, five tines as
much as any prize ever offered for
any class OF grain tn the United States.
Announcement Of this award has
Just been made by the Northwest De-
velopment League, under the auspictes
Of which organization the seven states
give the products exposition. The
states included In the AMERICAN
Northwest, as represented by the
League. are Minnesota. North Dakota,
South Dakota. Montana, Idaho. Wash
tpgton and Oregon
A praeIrzf HfoA
Tho prime oonsists Of q Big -Four
80 farm tractor manufactured by the
Gas Traction Company Of Minneapolis
and Winnipeg and q set Of plows
manufactured BY the ,BYant-
tngham Plow Company of Rockford,
Ill. 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 means that wheat
awarded prises at seven state fafrs
and scores OF county fairs will be sc.
lected BY process Of eaifntnatton and
finally entered at the Northwestern
Products Exposition in the grgna
champion sweepstakes elaaa. Thsre
will b nothing in the rules however.
to prevent grower exhibiting wheat
which has not been shown at any fair
but which viii be entered for the nrz3
time 20 win the 5000 prize.
Judging Of the wheat will b Aune
By the accepted authorities On wheat
Judging in the United States.
Five bushel samples Of thnashed
grain will be required and they mum
be exhibited with ten bundles from
the same field which must be from six
10 ten inches in diameter. The th1eshsd
grain will be judged. not only by Its
external appearance but certain
part will be milled and baked into
bread, . given number Of points b.
ing allowed for the results in the mfll
ing and baking tests.
The Northwest Development League
will undertake to deliver the farm
tractor and plows to the wfnner free
Of cost.
What Tractess win Do
The Big Four go" fzrm tractor Gud
pfows were selected for a prtxe b.
cause Of their practicability. There
Is no agency which b playing more
important part IN thu development Of
the Northwest than the modern farm
tractor. All over thsse ssysn states
the giant horses are cutting the broad
prairtes into fertile farma The wheat
1elds are already dotted with them
Every tractor placed In the. NORTH
west will turn hundreds of acres of
prairie into productive farms. ma1e-
ing homes for ssttleys. Grating trantc
and new wealth.
Omcers of the Nbrthvast Dsvelop-
ment League have been considering
giving q champion sweepstakes prize
since the close of the "land show"
held In St Paul in 1911. They decided
early TO give q farm tractor and plows.
~ Good as oetd.
The Big -Four $50" was selected %
The best engine; the Emerson plows
es the most desfrabts tools TO be OBJ
tafned. By the terms offered the
League could have secured most any
tractor, but the Gas Traction COM
pany's engine was selected and nego-
opened for securing the great
engine. The manufacturers generous
ly offered to donate the tractor on
certain terms and their offer was &C.
cepted.
Thus the worlds greatest prize for
wheat 10 offered. The Big -Four "3O"
tractor has won the gold medal two
years consecutively in the worlds ag-
ricultural motor competition at Win.
nipeg and this had much to do with
its selection by the Development
League. The outfit is considered as
desirable Q prize as an equivalent
amount Of gold. 90 these automobile
work horses are revolutionizing farm
ing all over the world.
Such tractor enables q farmer to
almost do away with horses. Break.