The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-08-16
FARMERS AFTER
PRIZE OF $4,000
-Four Hundred Entries For No.
Venlber Wheat Contest.
TO Be Hello IN MINNEAPOLIS.

huics Drawn Up For Judging Best T i've
Bushels-tiand Picked Grain VIII
Not Be Barred-How the Points Arc
20 Be Allowed.
-Four hundred farmers living in the
American northwest already have sig
ni6ed their intention of entering the
contest for the 5000 prize offered by
the Northwest Development league for
the best ffve bushels of wheat grown
in Minnesota, the Dslkotas, Montana,
Idaho, Washington or Oregon. Lewis
Penwell, president of the league, is
working out the details for the con-
test for the worlds greatest wheat
prize. He has completed the rules for
the Judging of the samples to be ex-
hihited and entered In the contest at
the Northwestern Products exposition
in Minneapolis in November.
Judging by the number Of wheat
growers who have already announced
that they will enter the contest" Mr..
Penwell said, "it appears that the task
Of hand picking the wheat does not
dismay the farmers of the northwest,
and 1t rs evident that many people are
willing to inspect five bushels of
wheat IN order to get the kernels uni
form, remove weed pulp, have only
plump, bright, sweet seeds in the sam
pie and thus get the grain as near as
possible to perfection"
Judges and Judging.
Three Judges will be selected by the
presidents and the agronomists of the
agricultural colleges of the seven
states competing. The judges must
come from without the American
northwest 1t is not expected that
these Judges will all be agricultural
college people. Some Of them will
probably be from one Of the grain ex-
changes of the country-a judge of
commercial grains.
Judging will be in three ways: First,
according to the accepted score card;
second, by a milling and baking test
and, third, by the yield per acre. One
hundred points will be allowed for
each Of the three ways and the sum
Of the points gained divided by three,
thus arriving at the average score.
Mr.. Penwell said the judging by the
standard seed score Is probably the
most interesting, as the exhibitor can
gain points by carefully selecting his
grain. Before the milling test the ex-
hibitor cannot tell what kind of bread
hts wheat will make, but he can have
the wheat clean and free from i'm
purites. This score card shows the
test which all wheat is given in one
way or another at the great grain
markets to determine its commercial
grade. The judges in determining the
best wheat at the exposition will be
guided by the same requirements.
Number Of Points.
Thirty points win be allowed on
yield, twenty-five being on the weight
per bushel and FIVE on the uniformity
OF the sample.
variety characters, three of these
points being ON the color; ten on pur-
ity, which means the kernels must be
true to the type of breed represented
two points are allowed for the kernel
shape, which varies with the breed.
Thirty pounds are allowed for vital
ity, five of these being for luster, as a
dull, dead color Is Objectionable; If
teen points will be allowed for plump
ness, as all wheat kernels should be
plump, web filed and well rounded,
saving no sharp angles and with the
creases well closed; seven points are
for odor (the sample should be sweet
and free from all foul smell mustiness,
etc..
Twenty-Five points are allowed for
market condition, ten points being to
cover weed seed, three points fot dirt
and dust two points for injured. .ker-