The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-14

award grower o. BEST wheat u
AM ERicAN Northwest.
Five thousand dollars for IL bese
i've bushels Of wheat, any variety,
grown in the AMERICAN Northwest IL
the prize announced - the grand
champion sweepstakes to 10 awarded
at the Northwestern Products Exposi-
ton to be held In Minneapolis Nov. II
to 20.
This Is the worlds greatest prize
for wheat-twice as large - any prize
ever offered in Canada, i've times -
much as any prize ever 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 auspices
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
ington and Oregon.
A Practical Prize.
The prize consists of Q Bio -Four
$50" farm tractor manufactured By the
Gas Traction Company Of Minneapolis
and Winnipeg and . set q plows
manufactured by the Emerson-Brant-
ingham 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 prise.
Winning this prize means that wheat
awarded prizes at seven state fairs
and scores of county fairs win b -
lected by a process of elimination and
finally entered at the Northwestern
Products Exposition In the grand
champion sweepstakes class. There
will be nothing In the rules, however.
to prevent a grower exhibiting wheat
which has not been shown at any fair.
but which will be entered for the FIRST
time to win the $1,000 prize.
| Judging of the wheat will b done
by the accepted authorities on wheat
judging in the United States.
Five bushel samples Of threshed
grain will be required and they must
be exhibited with ten bundles from
the same field which must be from six
to ten inches In diameter. The threshsl
grain will be judged. not only by its
external appearance but a certain
part will be milled and baked into
bread. a given number Of points be-
Ing allowed for the results In the mill.
ing and baking tests.
The Northwest Development League
will undertake to deliver the farm
tractor and plows to the winner free
Of cost
What Tractors VIII %.
The Big Four go" farm tractor and
plows we're selected for . prise b.
cause Of their practicability. There
Ii NO agency which il playing . 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 tramc
and new wealth.
Omcers of the Northwest Develop
ment League have been Considering
lgiving . champion sweepstakes prize
since the close Of the land show
held In st. Paul in 1911. They decided
early to give farm tractor and plows.
~ Good a. Gold.
The Big Four 80" was selected q
the best engine: the Emerson plows
a the most desirable tools to BE- OBJ
tanned. BY the terms offered the
League could have secured most any
tractor, but the Gas Traction com.
Ipany's engine was selected and nego-
tiations opened for securing the great
|engine. The manufacturers generous
~ offered to donate the tractor on
certain terms and their offer was &C.
cepted.
Thus the worlds greatest prise for
wheat 10 offered. The Big Four 80"
l ueCtoI W. wOu TUG BOso mcoe1 Two
years consecutively In the worlds AZ
ricultural motor competition ut Win
nipeg and this had much to do with
Its selection by the Development
League. The outfit 10 considered as
desirable . prize ~ IN equivalent
Amount Of gold. a these automobile
work horses are notwithstanding farm
ing all over the world.
Such q tractor enables . farmer 10
Utmost do away with horses- Break
ing and threshing are net the only
Phings which the Big Four 80" tract
pr will do. l. viii work In soft ground
rilling, dragging, discins, narrowing
Ind harvesting. II has high. broad
wheels which win work where horses
cannot get g 'oothold. They distribute