The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-11-19
PROF. MOORE A SPEAKER
Great Corn Expert of University of
Wisconsin Tells of Work Done in Pro-
ducing Pure Bred Corn in the State
Many Boys and Girls Win Prizes.
(From Tuesdays Daily

King Corn reigned in Kenosha today
and the day brought to the city many
of the people from the rural districts
OF the county interested in the growing
Of the great national crop. 1t was the
day set apart for the judging of the
corn in the contest under the direction
of the S. and J. Gottlieb Company and
Prof. R. A. Moore of the University
Of Wisconsin and one of the leading
experts in the growing of corn in the
world came to Kenosha to act as Judge
in the contest and to tell the people
of Kenosha county the wonderful story
OF what Wisconsin is doing to produce
better corn crops and to make Indian
corn a more paying investment for
the farmer.
The corn judging contest was held
at the opera house which was contri-
buted by Manager Rhode and on the
stage had been arranged on the long
tables score of bushels of wonderful
white and yellow corn raised in the
fields of Kenosha county during the
past season. The display was one
which would have attracted attention
anywhere and it showed that the farm
ers in the county are taking real in
terest in raising corn and raising the
best possible corn. The Gottlieb com
pany had offered cash prizes of $3.50
for the best display of Kenosha county
corn and there was keen competition
for the prizes Some of the displays
would have been worthy of blue rib
bons at state fair and all the corn
showed materially advance on that
grown in Kenosha county before the
state began to point the way to make
the crop better and more profit
able crop. Early in the morning Prof.
Moore showed the prize of Kenosha
county to the members Of the county
board of supervisors. Between ten and
eleven o'clock he spoke to crowd of
some two hundred farmers, several of
them coming from the extreme western
part of the county to attend the meet
ing. Prof. Moore spoke of the advance
Wisconsin had made in the past few
years as a corn growing state and
showed that this advance had been
largely due to the fact that the men
On the farms had begun to appreciate
the value Of pure bred seed for corn.
He showed that Wisconsin now was
leading the rs.t;a1 in the average of it's
corn yield. i gratulated the farm
ers of this copntz Gu the progress they
had made since they had taken up the
use of the pure, bred corn less
than a year ago.
There are few men in the world who
know more about corn than Prof.
Moore and the story which he told his
| hearers this morning was one of inter-
| est, not only to the men who raise corn,
but to all people interested in the de-
velopment of better farm crops.
Corn day is to be an annual event
IN Kenosha in the future and it is GER
tain that in the coming year more peo-
pie will be interested in the growth of
corn than ever before.
The prizes in the contest as an
nounced after the judging by Prof.
Moore, follow:
Golden Glow: from seed furnished by
the experimental station of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin
First Prize.
Myrtle Crow, Pleasant Prairie.
Second Prize.
Maude Cole, Kenosha, Route No. 49,
Third Prize.
Russell Bowman, Bassett Station.
Fourth Prize.
Gertrude Jensen, Somers.
Fifth Prize.
Roland Karnes, Kenosha, Route "a.
Sixth Prize.
Agnes Rafferty,, Salem.
Seventh Prize.
| Leona Schackmuth, Kenosha, Ri. "a.
The first three prizes were scholar
ships at the short course in agriculture
at the University of Wisconsin, includ-
ing free board and transportation.
Additional prizes were, first, SO; Sec
ond, SO; third, 50; fourth, So; fifth,
$4; sixth, So, and seventh So.
| Prizes of one dollar each were award
ed to the following contestants: Bur-
dette Holt, Fred Voss, Harold Karnes,
Roland Benedict, Elmer Benedict, John
Graham, Marjorie Shuart, Peter Pin
combe, Clarence Hermann, William
! Larsen, Leonard Benedict, Ethel Getsch-
man, Elmer Windish, Frank Gehring.
Ralph Karnes, Linden Bergman, Ches-
ter Falk, Della Schaekmuth, Henry
Dabbs, George lures, Willard Black
man, William Schlitz, Floyd Dabbs,
Ruby G. Fay, Myrtle Sorrensen, Mabel
/ Blackman, Ethel Blackman, Anna Falk.
Augusta Hansen, Fred Kramer, Arthur
Muhlenbeck, Clarence Benedict, Clar-
ence Muhlenbeck, Wesley Lindstroth,
Earl Karow, Lilah Edquist, Frank