The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-06-02
TWENTY-FIVE N
Prize CONTEST
Grand Forks County Farm
ers Will Seek Prizes For
Best Managed Farms.
COMMITTEE IS
WELL PLEASED
Expected That Much Good
Will Result From This
Unique Competition.

twenty-five Grand Forks county
farmers have registered their farms
In the Nash prize farm contest. The
men who have entered their farms in
contest are as follows:
Theodore o. Oakken, REYNOLDS. 175
George Schmidt. Emerald, 100
acres.
w. F. KTuegger. Niagara, $50 acres.
Leslie s. Austin, Thompson, so acres.
A. G. Nygaard. .Northwood, 100
acres.
Lewis Block, Thompson. 100 acres.
A. o. Trageton. Northwood, 480
acres.
Christ Engh, Niagara, 400 acres.
Hagen Bros. Northwood, $50 acres.
Jorgen P. Henningsen, Shawnee, l.
$50 acres.
Ole. T. Sollum, Reynolds. 480 acres.
L. D. Wyman. Northwood. $40 acres.
William Leake, Emerado. 48O acres.
Hans G~eorgenson, Niagara. 500
acres.
Eastgate Bros, Larimore, 365 acres.
-. p. Veitch. Emerald, 528 acres
Nels Fosness. Emerado, $50 acres.
Fred Howard, Thompson, 480 acres.
John H. Benson, Northwood, $50
acres.
H.. T.. Bjerke, Northwood, 40 acres.
q. K. Tobiason, Kempton. $50 acres.
B. p. johnson. Northwood. 600
acres.
Eddy Bros, Northwood. LAO acres.
H.. H. Havland. Northwood. 480
Committee at Work.
The Commercial club committee.
which has the contest in charge will
soon make their first inspection trip.
n n Con$nr Tho H{pootoN ~ Tho Dat
ter Farming association, is chairman.
The other members Of the committee
are as follows: A. Veitch, M. A. Bran
nom, E.. ]. Lander. F. L. Goodman, A.
I. Hunter and d. v. Moore. The sub
committee that will do the judging is
composed of O.. d. Center, NJ. A. Bran
non and Andrew Veitch.
~Inauguratcd by Nash Bros.
The contest was inaugurated by
Fred P. Nash and Willis K. Nash, for
merly Of Grand Forks but now OF
Minneapolis. They donated $3.50
which is to be awarded in prizes for
the best arranged, equipped. and OPP
Grated farms in Grand Forks county.
cash and an attractive sign bearing
the name Of the farm and the position
in the contest; second, $50; third, $40:
fourth, $25.
The final inspection and judging i.
to be done on or before October Is
this year.
my DstziIed Judging: j 4: :.s,
The points to be considered in the
Judging are as follows
The farmstead. Is points; Ia
points for each item: 1. The house;
2, the barn; 8. the outbuildings: 4
the mems quarters; s, the water sup.
l NIvs q thu C4r,o~> @tunNea1sr y TN
yards and yard fences: 8. the garden;
9. the machinery sheds: 10, the gran.
aries: II. the conveniences, telephone
r. F. D.. school and church; IL. the
neighbors.
The farm-15 points. 2 10 points
for each item: I, horses-work ami
mails and colts, kind and marketable
ity; 2. cattle. cows. young stock. feed
ers; 8, swine. breeding and feeding;
9, sheep, breeding. feeding and lambs;
5. care and conditions of all sorts Of
live stock: 6. feed. kind. amount. how
fed: z. machinery, kind, care, excess
or lack: 8. fences. kind. amount. con.
dition; g., supplies. repairs, mean fol
making use when needed: 10. labor
personal, transient OF yearly: IL. work.
ing capital, adequate or deficient.
Kind of work done and crops pro.
duced-28 points, 4 points for each
item: l. diversity of crops grown and
farm interests; 2. sort. of work done
seasonable. thorough. careful; 8. prep
aration Of seed bed. adequate or In
sufficient: a. seed, a~daptability, clean
illness. treatment, amount sown,
amount wasted; s, amount and clean.
illness of crop produced; 6. manner OF
care in harvesting, threshing. mar
keting; Z, fertility, added Or destroy
ed.
Improvement made-2o points.
points for each item: I, buildings
erected or c~onveniences added; 2
stock bought or raised; 8, weeds pre-.
vented. killed or eradicated; 4, work
ing capital or equipment increased; s
yearly labor required or engaged.