The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-10-02
CORN CONTEST WILL ALSO
DISTRIBUTE CASH PRIZES
Traffic Manager Miller Says the
Doctrine of the Dairy Cow and
the Hog Must Be Spread in
This Valley

|
ley are to have visit, the approach
ing winter from the agricultural
demonstration trains of the O-W. r
& N. company This train will prob
ably visit this section in January and
two things will be particularly en-
forced upon the ranchers One will
be the value and the need of greater
attention to the dairy and hog inter-
ests and their developmnt to their
highest power. The second will he
the corn growing possibilities Of
Washington. The railway company is
to hold corn contest and a corn
show Announcement of this, and of
the coming of the demonstration
train was made in North Yakima
Thursday by II. r. Miller, traffic
managed of the company. He was
here in attendance on the fair and
was enthusiastic
our company" said Mr.. Miller, lis
giving a cup as a trophy in the dairy
contest and | came over to see the
fair, to see the cows in the contest
and to become acquainted with the
stockmen. / have seen the cows and
met their owners and am delighted
With both. There is splendid stock
here, but more of it is needed.
Need for Livestock
You may remember that at the
banquet here, when our company en-
tered this country, | spoke of me
need for more attention to the i've
stock At the fair today I was de-
lighted with the conditions as found
them. Progress has been made and
at that you are but started. Our
people, as YOU know, have faith in
this valley That is why we built our
line here Personally, | love 1t.
"Our Mr. c. l.. Smith, who is the
railway agriculturist, was on the
grounds today and in the general con-
versation Mr. VandeWater, our rep
resentative in this valley believing The
idea to be a neXcellent one, it was
decided to bring our demonstration
train here in the winter, We will
have cattle and hogs, and will show
the right and the wrong types, how
to feed and how not to feed and we
will endeavor to answer the questions
that the dairy ard hog men are ask
ing. We have our own corps of ex-
perts. but we work in Conjunction
with the State colleges. An invita-
ton will be extended to your State
college to cooperate with us and no.
| tees will be sent to the farmers t.
prepare to ask us questions.
LAS to the corn contests, we plan
on having two, one for eastern Wash
| inston and Idaho. and one for ore
gon. Our corn shows will be at Col
fax or some such place in Washing
ton and at or near Pendleton in Oro-
Remarkable as 1t may seem. 1t Is held
| by many that corn will not grow here.
whereas at your State fair we havo
| seen as good ears as the world can
produce. Announcement is made now
that the farmers may know of what
| we plan.
| 1--WE will distribute many hundreds
of dollars in prizes and next fall, NJ
| tn harvest, tho growers can save
their best for exhibition 1t is not our
object to produce less wheat by pro-
ducing more corn, but to save tho
million acres along our line now an
nually wasted ~ summer fallow.
Planted to corn that land will not
only produce an excellent crop, but
the succeeding year will give an in
creased wheat yield.
More Corn
Here in the Yakima valley vou
do not have. with your intensive
farming, any fallow land, but you
/ can produce more corn and more
corn means better stock, and better
stock is the direction in which we
are heading, Annually we bring in
carload after carload into the hun
dreds of pork products from the east
and of live hogs from Nebraska fer
| you people here and the cities You
ought to supply. We want you to do
the producing right here. and you
will. The future in that respect is
certain. why waste time in delaying
it?
This is called a wheat state and
Kansas Is a corn state. yet Kansas
grows more whe., than Washington
Oregon, Idaho and California COM
bined We are wasting land and OPP
portunities here. Our railway Is
supplied with a corps OF agricultural
ana stock enthusiasts and we propose
| to let the territory have the benefit
| of it. No other railway does, as we
do in that respect or pays as much
| for education for the people in It's
| territory. When our demonstration
train comes here it is yours for your
best interests.