Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-12-14
l,uhe,. d Shield Valley
GET Award With Turkey"
Red Variety
Yield Per Acre Va; Main
aea n Their ElvOf- asked
No Concessions

p. Nash and Charles B~ridgman, part
ners. ranchers and nov bonanza wheat
farmers in the Shields river valley OF
Montana. seventy miles north OF lel-
lowstone National Park, have won the
prize of 5000 for the best five bush
els Of wheat grown in the American
Northwest during 1912, and exh'ib'ed
at the Minneapolis Land Show.
1t was Turkey Red and welsheo
the full 60 pounds and a few ounces
more. The commercial score card gavc
a % ~ points. 1t millcd lW.7. tit-
ty-ninc and onc-third bushels per acre
was the average on ffty-two acres
samples Thoroughly Tested.
This announcement was made today
nv President Lewis Penwell OF the
Northwest Development league, alter
the many samples of wheat OF all va
rieties had passed under the eyes OF
four different judges, then been grouna
into flour and baked into bread. Al
fdayits were furnished by the grow
ers from the county surveyor OF Park
county, Montana, who measured the
field. and from the threshcrmen, who
measured 1905 bushels OF the wheat
thev threshcd from fifty-two acres.
Yield Gave Them Prize
The prize-wiming wheat was 0
the highest scoring wheat by the ON
mercial score card, but it was T.! points
better than No. 2 northern spring the
millers' standard on the milling test:
The wonderful yield which Nash and
Bridqeman realized from carefully Sc
.)ecting their seed and the natural Ter
1ility of the soil OF the Shields river
valley, placed the prize in the hands
of the Montanans.
viii Rip Up Park County.
As this prize consists of a Big our
"33O' gasoline farm tractor, ana a set
of Emerson-B Birmingham hit gang
blows, the ranchers will start IN WIN
the opening OF spring to rip up all
of Park county and plant it IN turkey
Red wheat" as MI. Nash expressed It
when asked what they would 40 II
they,won the outfit.
They Asked No Concessions.
Clyde Park-the Nash and Bridge
man ranch postoffce-is on a branch
az the Northern Pacific. railway Which
rms north from Livingston, Mont,
The two young men started ont 70 WI,
under the. rules. OF the game ana did
not even write the exposition manage
t6erts to explain a requirement or
change a rule in order to let them IN.
They played in true Montana style
The day before the entries closed they
filed a bunch of affdavits a. foot thick,
showing their yield per acre: Then
they submitted FIVE bushels OF plump.
clean, b%rightiooking Turkey Red
and ten of the finest sheaves' OF wheat
on which the sun ever shone. Nasl
attended the exposition in Minneapolis;
Bridgeman stayed on the ranch and
"o' How Percentage Was Based.
inspectors who grade and pass on
millions of bushels of wheat on the
Minneapolis market look over entry
mo, "a" along with fifty or sixty 9TH
ers, They cut mo 24' n point on
color. a half point on purity, three
noints because it had damaged kernels
and then three points because 1t mad
4 trace OF smut. That LETT the COM
mercial score % -, and there were
some others higher.
Bread Better Than Prospect.
Then the Howard wheat and flour
testing laboratory, which has been
making tests for the mills Of Mime
apolis for a quarter of a century, took
ali the samples submitted BY the judges
and ground them into flour. From this
-four they baked big loaves OF bread,
most of them "better than perfect"
Contained Little Moisture.
The sample Of Nash and Bridgemar'
scored l04.7. The laboratory found the
prize winning wheat contained but Il
Der cent moisture. 1t had a cleaning
loss of only Ia OF per cent, and a net
-four yield of 76.d per cent. The NO. :
northern spring to which it was com.
pared has an average of Is per cent
moisture and a flour yield of y per
cent.
Twelve ounces OF -four made from
the Nash and Bridgeman Turkey
Red" produced a loaf of bread con-
tanning 1853 cubic inches and weighed
1925 ounces swlten i came from the
4 oven. hAtt@J
Escslg,d ~ the Yield.
This gave the Park county ranchers
o. ~ points, ~ the commercial score