The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1912-11-16
THE CHILDREN ARE
SHOWING The WAY

"The school children of North Da-
kota have grown mature corn in
practically all the counties Of the
state" said Prof. w. C. Palmer of the
A. C. today.
I'm the corn contest held at James
town for Stutsman county there were
sixty exhibits of corn. Fifty of these
were mature and a splendid quality
of corn. In this same connection it
will be interesting to note that those
who are in a position to know did not
know of any farmer in the county who
had grown as ripe corn as were fifty
Of these sixty exhibits
This seems like a rather curious
situation, yet the explanation is this
that the school children were furnts1-
ed seed by the agricultural college
which had been grown far enough
north so thatsit could ripen in the time
that it had In the state this year. The
farmers had sent away for their corn
which had likely come from too far
south. At any rate it could not ripen,
so had it been left to the farmers they
could very naturally say that corn
could not be grown in Stutsnan
county; but when the school children
take hand in it, this statement can
be turned clear around. This certain
ly brings out the big work that is
being done in these corn contests
which are conducted by the different
county superintendents and the agri-
cultural college. e
"This is not all however. Some of the
farmers had gathered from i've to ten
bushels of seed from the boys and
girls corn patch so that they have
enough seed to put in a splendid acre
age next year. In other words the
boys and girls have demonstrated that
corn can be grown, and they are also
supplying their parents with the seed.
grown right at home for starting them
out in this important branch of farm
ing.
"In Oliver county the school child
rem brought in twenty-three exhibits.
This contest was held at Center Most
of these exhibits were ripe. In fact
the first fifteen were of better quality
than the judge had seen at any point
except in Richland county Fifteen
prizes were awarded on this corn.
"The corn grown in Stutsman and
| Oliver counties was Minnesota No. %,
which certainly has wonderful pos
| sibilities for this section of the state,
and now good many farmers in both
Stutsman and Oliver counties have the
seed which will enable them to put in
good field next year.
I'm the corn contest held in Cavalier
county there We're some forty exhibits
of corn and of these about two thirds
were perfectly ripe and of splendid
quality. The variety grown here was
Mercer Flint, which is q splendid corn
| in that it produces well, ripens in q
short time and can be handled with
machinery.
.The corn contest in these three
counties were held this week. These
counties will. all send some of their
prize winners to the Boys and Girls
| Institute at the agricultural college
Stutsman county will send Herbert
| Hoenhaus, Jamestown; Leo VerIinden
Pingree; Orville Albrect Fried: George
Bitz, Medina. oliver county will send
| William Miller of Center. Cavalier
county will send Robert Mclean, Ham
nah; Charles Coyle, Elkwood: Kari
| Wild, Milton; Myrtle Dunnigan, Beau
| lieu; Mary Hoesl. Walhalla; Thorvald
| Haug, Mona; Katie Toews, Munich;
Clarence Baker. Osnabrock,
"The county superintendents of these
three counties have certainly been very
active in pushing corn growing, doing
everything in their power to encour
age the boys and the girls in the great
work of developing their counties and
their state.