The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-10-03
This County Looks
Like The East
This State Must "Get in tho
Game" to Keep Up the
Good Name

North Dakota has bumper
crop Of corn this fall.
Ten years ago, had a North Da-
kotan read these words in the
Forum he would have rubbed his
eyes and looked again. And see-
ing that the editor had said
corn, would have thought it was
a mistake. And ten years ago it
would have been a mistake.
Not so in this year Of grace
1913 however. Things are diff
ferent now. North Dakota has
raised crop Of corn, and furth-
ermore it's an immense crop,
which will add no small item to
the total wealth that will roll
into the state from the crop of
1913.
Any man who doubts this
statement, can have it proved in
a way that will open his eyes, by
visiting the Casselton corn show,
that will be held Oct. 9, 10, IL.
During the late summer the coun-
try around Casselton did not look
like a North Dakota landscape
at all. It looked more like Iowa
or Illinois. Great rustling fields
Of corn stretched away on every
hand.
They raised and matured a
really wonderful corn crop around
Casselton, as they have in many
other sections Of the state, and
the business men of Casselton con-
ceived the idea Of the corn show.
There have been corn shows in
the state before. For some years
now corn shows have been a
! feature of the graet Tri-State
Grain Growers convention, held
annually-Fargo. But the show
that will be held at Casselton
promises to surpass everything
that has ever been held in North
Dakota in this line.
Already many exhibits have
been received, scores of exhibits,
and it's all fine corn, thoroughly
matured, of excellent quality,
both dent and flint, corn that is
evenly rowed, and filled out to
the very tip with plump kernels.
Every farmer in this section of
the state should take the time
and the opportunity to take in
this corn show. 1t will be worth
a fortune to the farmer who is
just learning the fact that North
Dakota is a corn state and has
not yet "got into the game"
There will be another corn show
in October, that promises to be
equally as important as the Cas-
selton show. This will be held at
Lisbon, this week, Oct. 2, 3 and
4. 1t will be known as the Ran
son county corn show, that cou1l-
ty having also produced a great
yield of corn that will equal any
thing grown in the so-called
corn states" for quality. Foster
was another county where there
was a splendid yield, and Profes-
sor Palmer of the A. G.. who judg-
ed a contest held under the aus
pices of the Darlington CONNER
cial club, says that much of the
corn in Foster county was except
ionally fine in quality.
These are only a few of the
shows, and contests that have
been or will be held in the state.
Practically every county fair in
North Dakota this fall, has feat
ured or will feature corn.
They're doing mighty big
thing for North Dakota at Cas-
selton and Lisbon and wherever
they have planned these corn
shows. The shows will do .
vast amount Of good, by spread
ing the doctrine Of corn in
No. Dakota, by advertising to the.
world that North Dakota i q
corn state, and by spreading
North Dakota grown seed-the
seed that has proved BY actual
test time and again to be the
best to mature q crop in this
state.-Forum.
Crops on the reservation were
pretty good this year. One man
put in 750 acres Of flax. that
averaged 10 bushels per acre. He
hauled 500 bushels q miles: to
Plaza with his engine, IN ono
trap, having six large grain tanks
and one other wagon III tie