The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-11-05
CORN WANTED FOR
EXHIBIT AT BIG SHOW
Valley County Farmers Urged 10 Send
Sample to ST. Paul.

Valley County Farmers Urged TO Send
Sample to ST. Paul.
December 1st will witness the OPEN
ing at St. Paul, Minn., of the first
National Corn Show, under the aus
pices of the First National Bank of
that city. Every man and boy on a
farm in Valley County who has grown
corn this year should enter the COM
petition and send ten ears of the best
they have on the place to this show.
The prizes are well worth an effort to
win, consisting of large loving cups
valued at fifty dollars, besides which
the winner will be designated as the
champion corn grower of his district,
which alone is worth taking the
trouble to gather and ship the corn.
No farmer in Valley County who
matured corn this year should hold
back or neglect to enter the competi-
ton, thinking that others will have
better corn than he has, for the rea-
son that we have had as favorable
weather conditions here as anywhere,
and corn from this county should
have an easy job in outclassing all
other districts Weather conditions
in all of the eastern corn states were
no better than they were here this
season, and it is possible for the corn
grown here to show up even better
than that grown in Minnesota, the
Dakotas, Kansas or Nebraska, and
fully as good as any from the state
of Iowa.
In the competition each state will
compete by itself for the best grown
crops, and each state is divided into
districts, the object being to make
the competition as near fair and i'm
partial as is possible. Valley County
is in District No. /, in which are in-
| cluded Sheridan, Dawson, and Blaine
| Counties. A winner will be declared
in this district, both for men and
boys. and these will compete with the
winners in the other districts of Mon
tana, Of which there are six, for the
state championship. Then the best
corn in all the states will be selected
and the winner will be the national
champicr corn grower. The contest
| promises to be most interesting Cor
the farmers, and win be one Of great
benefit to all who enter it.
There is NO expense attached to
making an exhibit and entering the
cortest, other thar that of selecting
the rem ears Of corn and sending then,
| by express to the t'irst National fank
at st. Paul. r.! r: ticulars an: H.
structions governing he First Ma -
! al Corn Snow can h: had at an 8:
| the banks iE Glasgow or at the ~"
lnercial l,:h. sGc corn must he y,
st. Paul by December 1st. 1t should
oe wrapped carefully, each ear by it.
self, in paper and then packed secure
| lv in a box and sent in as stated above.
H. l.. Dow, secretary of the Corn
| Show, who attended the Montana
State Fair, stated that he saw better
corn displayed there than was shown
at the state fairs of Minnesota, Da-
kota or Nebraska, and expressed the
belief that Montana could carry off
the banner premiums at the first Ma
tional Corn Show in December if the
farmers would send in their corn. He
was most emphatic in his praise of
the corn shown and was very much
surprised to see so much corn so we'll
matured.
| Every farmer in Valley County who
has corn should at once select the best
ten ears he can find and enter the
contest, for it will mean great deal
to this part of the state to be well
represented at the show in st. Paul
this winter.