Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-03-25
BEETOWN BOY WINNER;
WRITES BEST LETTER
Concerning Boys Recent Short
Course in Agriculture
Awarded Head Prize in Contest Con-
Quoted by Hoards' Dairyman, the
Great Farm Paper

Hoard's Dairyman has been pub.
fishing letters from the boys who at
tended the recent short course in agri-
culture at the state agricultural col
lege in Madison, wherein Grant
county furnished over fifty or about
one-third of all the boys in attend
ance. Prizes were offered for the
best letter written by the boys on the
subject my Trip to Madison and
What l Learned and Adolph
Traupe, of the town of BeeIown,
this county has been awarded the
head prize, $5 in cash as the winner.
Here's his letter:
On January Goth, accompanied by
Supt. ]. G. Brockert, 1 departed to
take short course in the College of
Agriculture at Madison. When I
arrived at Lancaster met over fifty
boys who were also going to take the
course. In this way the trip was
very pleasant We rode through a
number of small villages and reached
Madison at 10 o'clock. We went i'm
mediatelg to the Sherlock Hotel,
registered and got our lodging in the
same hotel where Mr.. Brockert was
to stay during the week of the Super
intendents' Convention. After dinner
we went to the agrouomy building
and enrolled fer our work the next
day.
On Tuesday morning we went to
the College of Agriculture to take up
our work. At the opening of the
session Prof Il. A. Moore gave an
interesting talk on the advantages of
Wisconsin and che good of pedigreed
grains. On good grounds the
thorough bred corn will yield as high
as sixty bushels of shelled corn per
acre. The pedigreed corn is worth
from three to four dollars a bushel.
while scrub corn is worth so cents
bushel Therefore, it is essential to
raise pure bred, rather than scrub
corn, because of greater yield and
U0lGoI pEIC0I
It has been known at the expert
ment station that corn can be grown
to have the ear at the right place, to
have a certain number of leaves on
a stalk. and have certain number of
joints. In this way the yield is in
creased and Large profit is made:
After Professor Moore's talk on
corn we were told by Mr.. Stone all
the necessary characteristics and
qualifications of a good ear of corn.
Then we began work in Judging corn
First it was two ears, then 1T was s.
sample of ten eals
The next day we leyan work with
an interesting talk on alfalfa. He
spoke of the value of alfalfa in com
parison with other grasses the condi
tions of the soil when sowing, and the
yield per acre. Mr.. Harper, once
superintendent of schools of Grant
county, gave an interesting talk on
the disadvantages of farm life in his,
boyhood. He related many expert
ences of his own life, told bow the
advancement of farming was brought
about and of harmful things which
besought the boys on the farm today
On Thursday we began the study
of oats. The Swedish Select. Sixty
Day Oat, and Wisconsin Wonder are
the most popular varieties. Then we
took the study of barley. There are
many interesting characteristics about
barley, the best varieties are the two
rowed and six-rowed When our
work was finished, Professor Moore
called us together and took as through
the museum, capitol, and other i'm
portant parts of the city.
On Saturday morning we took the
train bound for Lancaster, feeling
satisfied with the week s instruction
received at the Agricultural College
in the Capital City.
Ad0lph Traupe.