The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-07-12
Five Thousand Dollars Value
fer Five Bushels Of Grain
SEVEN STATES TO COMPETE
Northwestern Products Exposition q
Minneapolis Secures Bic Fsur go
Farm Tractor and Equipment -
Award Grower Of Best WhsoA n
AN MEXICAN Northwest

grown in the AMERICAN Northwest 10
the prize announced A. The gSand
champion sweepstakes to - awarded
at the Northwestern Products Expesi-
ton to be held in Minneapolis Nov. II
to %.
This is the WORLDS greatest Prize
for wheat-twice ~ large - any prize
ever offered in Canada, Eve times AZ
much as any prize ever offered for
any class Of grain in the United States.
Announcement of this aware has
Just been made by the Northwest De-
velopment League. under the auspicies
Of which organization the seven states
give the products exposition The
states included in the AMERICAN
Northwest, as represented By the
League, are Mime sofa, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Montana, Idaho. Wash
ington and Oregon.
A Practical Prize.
The prize consists OF . Big Foae
$50" farm tractor manufactured by the
Gas Traction Company Of Minneapolis
and Winnipeg and . set Of plows
manufactured by the Emerson Brant-
ingham Pillow Company Of Rockford,
Ill. These companies, desiring 10 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 prizes at seven state fairs
and scores Of county fairs will b Sc
lected by 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 thresheA
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 threshed
grain will be judged, not only by its
external appearance but q cert'in
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 fyse
Of cost
What Tractors VIII %.
The Big Four 80" farm tractor and
J plows were selected for a prize be
cause Of their practicability. There
Is no agency which is playing q 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 whea,
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 frame
and new wealth.
Omcers Of the Northwest Develop
ment League have been considering
giving . champion sweepstakes prize
since the close OF the land show
held In st. Paul in 1911. They decided
early to give farm tractor and Dlsws
A. Good az Gold.
The Big Four go" WAS selected q
The best engine; the Emerson plows
a. the most desirable tools to BE- oh
tainsd. BY the terms offered the
League could have secured most any
tractor, but the Gas Traction com
pany's engine was selected and nsgo
ttations opened for securing the great
engine. The manufacturers generous
y offered to donate the tractor on
certain terms and their offer was &C
eepted.
Thus the worlds greatest Drfss fos
wheat In offered. The Big Four '3e'
tractor has won the gold medal tive
years consecutively In the worldI a.
Sicultural motor competition 1t Win
nipeg and this had much to do with
IT'S selection by the Develop ment
League. The eutAt 10 considered a
desirable q prize a. an equivalent
anount Of gold. as these automobile
work horses are revolutionisi1S fAs0
ing all over the world.
Such a tractor enables . fAs0se d
almost do away with horses. Break
ing and threshing are not The only
things which the Big Four -" tract
o. win do. II will work In soft ground
drilling, dragging. discins. harrowins
and harvesting. II has high. broad
Ohsels which win work where horsel
cannot get a foothold. They distribute
de weight of the tractor to such N
extent that the pressure under the
drivers u less per square inch thar
! 0nder Q horses hoof.
Y Full particulars viii be sent - -
| crest by Addressing VIII A. Campbell
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