The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1914-02-26
Idaho Prizes
At Corn Show

That Idaho did not win the $500
cash prize for the best single ear of
corn exhibited at the National Corn
Show at Dallas or the $1,000 trophy on
the best 10 ears of corn, seems evil
dent from a letter that has been re-
ccived in Boise from Professor w.
H. DIN in charge of the Idaho exhibit
and accompanying which he sends a
complete list, with the exception of
oats, of all awards carried off by Idah
growers. These big premiums are not
listed there. Professor Olin is highly
pleased over Idaho's remarkable show
Ing, however. He says the northwest
is the coming foremost seed section of
the nation. The only national cham
pionship trophy Idaho won was on
alsike clover seed grown near briggs,
Speaking of the Idaho exhibit Profes.
sor DIN says:
In the Idaho booth we are empha-
sizing the growing Of legume crors.
In large display letters we say, Idaho
the Home of the Whole Legume Fa.
mily.' The show booth SEED and
forage samples Of these various le-
gumes give the crop rotation prac-
ticed by certain farmers growing peas,
alfalfa, beans, clover or other legumes.
thus we demonstrate where they fit
into the rotation in the Idaho farm.
In bottled form we have root samples
showing the tubercular gfowths in
the roots Of peas, clover. alfalfa and
vetch by means of which nitrates are
stirred in the soil to aid succeeding
crop growths.
People Are Attracted
I'VE have some Idaho potatoes and
apples to show the quality our far
mers obtain through desirable farm
management. Through the courtesy
Of our state immigration department
we have some interesting Idaho agri-
cultural scenes that catch the eye
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and l have been quite busy answering
the many inquiries of the visitors who
throng our booth daily. We are sur
prised to find the interest that so
many people in this southwest, 1000
miles away, have in our northwest
state. A banker of Dallas, when told
that it was through the courtesy and
assistance Of the agricultural commit
tee of the Idaho State Bankers asso-
citation that we were able to bring
this exhibit, came with friends to the
booth several times. Scores Of reo-
pie come along and, seeing our pur-
pie ribbons for sweepstakes on corn
in the western zone exclaim, I
didn't know you could grow corn way
up there This interests them to
see what else we grow and they go
away with far different impressions
than when they came.
Won One National Championship
Thanks to two or three schools
and two or three farmers Idaho has
some good looking samples of oats
weighing all the way from 40 to As
pounds. A careful termination test
is being made of all competing sam
pies for the $1,000 trophy cup and
award. We know Idaho cannot get
great interest centers in the final
award We know Idaho cannot get
it but we also know that we. should
have striven harder to obtain it. j
know Of nothing which would have
advertised us more as grain pro-
ducing state than to have won {;
worlds champion honor in either the
wheat or oat classes. We win in
neither. We must get into the game.
1--WE won one world championship
prize. 1t was on alsike seed. This was
grown by Farmer Hansen in the Te-
ton basin near briggs. 1t was cleaned
and prepared for exhibit by Superin-
tendcnt j. A. Hughes of the Teton
high school and his class in agricul-
when it won high honors and here
at the national corn show it has
won the highest honOrs.
Alfalfa Shows Good
IA fine sample of clover seed, with
just a little foxtail, was sent by Mr.
Hitson of Caldwell. 1t was the plump
est and best filled seed of the whole
show but because of this foxtail it
was awarded third place by the judges
a most excellent sample of alfalfa |
iced was sent by Arthur Snyder of |
Gpringfield. Max Hendricks, of Pull |
nan, Wash, won over this sample but |
Mr.. Snyder got the second place in
= fierce contest. Thus these men |
helped Idaho demonstrate to our
buying seeds in carloads |