The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-09-04
Second Prize Last Year.

VIVIAN L AAZV 4/Ck0V L V1Xs
Beltrami county last year took the
second prize on scores in the entire
state and the second prize in this dis
trict
The. exhibit this year contains field
peas nine and one half feet in
height, wild peas nine feet high,
wild vetch nine feet high, six and
one half foot oats and straw, Alaska
wheat sixty bushels to the acre, sill
yer mine oats ninety bushels to the
acre, four foot second cut alfalfa
from the Bemidji high school farm
besides many other grain and vegeta-
BILE samples. The Summit Farmers
club will have samples of % varie-
ties of grasses in the exhibit.
Schroeder in Charge.
G. F. Schroeder will have charge
of the exhibit. He will be assisted
by John Gilstead of Gilstead Lake, Ed
Winter and B. M. Gile of Bemidii.
Girl Wins Free Trip.
Miss Jeanette Stechman, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Stechman of
Tenstrike, will attend the state fair.
Miss Stechman won a free trip to
the state fair in the Bemidji high
school bread making contest and she
will also enter the bread making con-
test at the fair.
Many to See Exhibit.
Many people of the county will at
tend the fair and will visit the ex-
hibit. Pamphlets describing Bel
trami county will be issued.
Children to Enter Pigs.
The county will be represented at
the pig contest in the fair by pigs
raised by Esther McGhee, daughter
of Assistant County Superintendent
of Schools McGhee and. Theodore,
Fenske, the son of Herman Fenske,
Rural Route No. 2. The McGhee
girl is Is years old and the Fenske
boy is ten years. Both entered the
contest which extends over the en-
tire state, May I. Prizes are offered
for the best record in the district and
the best in the state.
The pig raised by Miss McGhee is
the better of the two and an excellent
record was made in the cost of feed
ing the pig.
The following is a list of the en-
tries made in the exhibit:
A. P. Richie Big Four;
barley, Wis. Red; Browns Enurmus
wheat, blue stem; wheat, fife stem;
bats, ped. White Russian; rye, spring;
June grass.
B. M. Gile-Alfalfa, first cutting;
second cutting; alfalfa, third
cutting; Soy beans, cow peas, Oder
bucker barley, Austrian Hanna bar
ley, cheveliar barley, Kherosn oats,
white hulless barley. black beauty
oats, Big Four oats, early Roosevelt
oats, Lincoln yellow oats, spring rye,
fall Wis. Red No. 1 rye, black vic
tor oats, MINI. 1853 wheat, MINI. 169
wheat, fife wheat, blue stem wheat,
flax, silver hull buckwheat, japanese
buckwheat, Canada blue grass, jap
anese field peas, Green Mountain po-
tatoes, Say beans, sweet clover,
Michigan banner leafless beans, sorg-
hum, oyster vegetable, carrots, pars-
nips, sage, parsley.
A. Speck-Burbank potatoes, Early
Ohio potatoes, Carmine potatoes.
Herman Eickstadt-Silver Mine
oats, blue stem wheat, beared spring
wheat, med. red clover, Alsike clo-
YER, alfalfa, blue joint and red top
timothy, Silver Mine oats, bearded
spring wheat.
George H. Miller-Blue stem
wheat, Marquis wheat, Sensation oats,
Swedish select oats, MINI. No. los
barley, Mandscheuri barley, Marquis
wheat, blue stem wheat, Swedish Sc
lect oats.
August Jarchow-Russet potatoes,
Golden Russell potatoes, white ruta,
bagas, Yellow Flint corn, Japanese