Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-10-28

had samples OF their best at the meet
ing OF Norwich grange. No, 172. Pa
irons Of Husbandry. in Pythian hall on
Wednesday, evening, where the. third
annual corn show was held in CO.
operation with the New London Coun-
~ Agricultural society. The flint corn
was entered IN competition for the $50
in prize money offered BY the agricui-
trral society at the tine OF the county
fair, while the other ki..Is stood a
chance OF sharing in the So which had
vided up and awarded in the discretion
OF the judge, who was Professor Slate.
OF the Connecticut Agricultural college
at Storrs.
The big corn event drew out an at.
tendance Of over 100 and the meeting
was an open one, although a short
business meeting was held for the
! transaction of necessary. business by
the grange.
For the corn show the aim of County
Agent F. d. Warner and Worthy. Mas
ter E. c. Jewett had been to have 100
! entries. and they came near to doing
so. for the total Was 81
One incident that was regretted by
| those in charge of the competition was
that the corn exhibit from the Col
| chester Boys club arrived just a few
moments after the time for the closing
( of entries. as r. A. Storrs. the super
visor of agriculture. who was bringing
| the exhibit, had tire trouble with his
| automobile that made him late in
: leaving Colchester, and consequently
| late in arriving here. But the boys
| did not go unrewarded, for at the sug
| gestion of Worthy Master Jewett
| collection was taken up in the hall,
/ which amounted to $40 and this was
| apportioned out into prizes for the four
best exhibits in the Colchester show
ing.
\ In addition to this, the Colchester
| boy John Manning who received first
prize for flint corn. had the satisfac-
| ton Of Knowing that the judges YER
dict gave him a place over the winner
OF first prize in the regular competi-
! tor. for after Professor Slate had
awarded this prize of $40 to E. p.
Barnes OF Preston. he was asked to
declare between the Preston flint corn
and the Colchester flint corn. and he
gave the premium to the Colcheste:
l boys exhibit.
Each exhibit consisted of ten select
ed ears which were spread out on
long tables in the hall, and while the
crowd present were inspecting the
corr, tho grange orchestra, directed BY
John NJ Swain, rendered a number of
selections.
Prize Awards.
Edward Cook was the entry clerk
and also made the announcements OF
the prize awards after Professor Slate
had completed his inspection of the
many ears spread out before him.
The following were the awards: For
dint corn-First, E. p. Barnes. Preston.
$40; second, .Erva Barnes. Preston. IS;
third, A%H. Dexter, Norwich Town Sc I:
fourth. Rev. G. F. Goodenough. Led
yard. g.; fifth. A. A. Young. Jewett
City, 50.
Grange Prizes.
The IS offered by the grange was
/ awarded as follows. each 81: First. s.
s. Whipple, sweet corn: second, Ray
I l.. Harding. Ohio whitecap dent corn (:
third. Erva Barnes. white rice popcorn:
1 fourth, E. P. Barnes, sweet sugar
leaning corn.
i Colchester Boys.
In the Colchester boys exhibit the
prizes were the following: First, John
Manning. 81: second. Rowland Kenyon.
IS: third. Willard Madley. So: fourth.
Charles Caples. 81.
Exhibitors.
The list Of exhibitors who had corn
entered was as follows:
B. T.. Avery. long white flint. late
white flint: S. S. Whipple, selected
, sweet; Henry Bates, yellow flint: w
S. Thomas. white dent, high rock en-
silage, white flint, high rock flint: NJ
l. Trail, high rock special; y. Fl. Dex-
ter. yellow field corn; Herman Leon
ard, white dent: Z. A. Geer. Longfel-
low red; Hampstead. white cap; Bran
ford Farm, improved leaning; +. s
Armstrong, white dent: j. p Broad
hurst, high rock flint; w. P. Holmes
white rice pop: F. L. kanahan, mixed
. pop, r. /. cap, longfellow; James Pail
mer, yellow cap: Herman Leonard
. yellow cap; Hamilton Wallace, yellow
longfellow; Miss S. S. Lane, white
i reap; Leslie. Geer, longfellow: A. A
|; Young, r. I. white 70; ]. L. Raymond
, white flint; ]. ]. Tiffany, dent: George
! Lepan. longfellow: A. W. Lillioridge
, r. !. white cap, yellow flint, longfellow
, yellow flint, golden nugget; A G
! Miner. improved leaning dent, San.
! ford white: New London County I'm.
! provement league, dwarf sweet; P. II
. Bromley, improved Leaning dent
mammoth white flint golden bantam
popcorn: Erva Barnes, white r.
: flint; E. p. Barnes, sweet sugar: Ervf
: Barnes. white rice pop; z. P. Barnes
white r. I. flint; James Murphy. r. l
. red cap, early prize winner, yellow
iongfellow.
j. B. Chapman. evergreen sweet: j
b. Chapman, yellow flint: Ray L
Harding, Ohio white cap dent. i'm
. proved Leaning. red dent: Charles
Pearson. Ohio white cap dent. COLDER
nugget; r. ". Peck. yellow. flint: W
Isaac G. Geer, some among ears re,
corn Rev. G. #. Goodenough, freal
corn, yellow cap, golden nugget. E
4 Fitch Johnson. Corey corn, Crosby
} early northern. =
In the Colchester entries there wer
! twelve exhibits of which there wer
! eight by the following boys of the ag
ricultural club: Hills Parmlee o
Bull Hill, Andrew Larauda of Gosh
: en-, Ralph and Roland Kenyon o
: Goshen, John Manning of Lebanon
Charles Caples Of Exeter, Isadorl
karachskv OF Exeter, and Willard
Medley of Lebanon. The corn in
cluded yellow flint. 90 day flint. u row
yellow. white cap. r, L white cap
Ionzfellow. and mixed.
One exhibit that attracted NOR,
: nan usual attention was that OF Siiai
S. Whipple of Lehingwer. who haS
two boxes in which he had arranget
showing of the Whipple corn and il
hybrids.s He had each ear labeled
with explanation OF what he had ac
conptshed in se.ective breeding o
. corn. This showed that the Whip
. pie corn had stalk Z feet tall and tn,
ears grew from 2 IL to 8 feet from
the ground. After 10 years OF breed
, Ing he produced corn with Is rows o
! kernels. and he also showed an ear o.
sweet corn with 20 rows that is grown
. Eto a short length to fit the kettle.
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