The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-11-12
COUNTY CORN
BECOMING FAMOUS
Excellent Quality Raised Here is
Sought for Seed

valley county is last making It's
way to the front as the leading corn
producing district of the state of
Montana, as the result of the awards
won at the State Fair the past two
years. This is brought forcibly to at
tention by the large numbers of or
ders received from various localities
the last few weeks by C. A. Collins
for seed corn, as result of the fine
showing made by him at the State
Fair and the premiums won by his
exhibit.
Mr.. Collins has sold ten bushels of
his Northwestern Dent corn to c. D.
Rice, vice-president of the Milk River
Bank, who spent quite little time in
Glasgow recently looking over his in
terests in this section. Mr.. Rice is
president of the First National Bank
of Northfield, Minn., and is also ex-
tensively interested in farming in that
state, where a great amount of corn
is annually raised as rule. This
year was an unfavorable one for corn
in his home district as well as in
other parts of the country, and as
result seed corn is scarce there. When
he was shown corn raised by Mr.. Col
Inns, he pronounced it the best he had
seen this year and at once spoke for
some of it for seed, resulting in his
buying ten bushels, to be used upon
his farm in Minnesota next year. This
speaks most highly for Montana corn,
when it can be sold for seeding pur-
poses to be used in a state like Min
nesota, where it is considered no trick
at all to grow the very best with but
little effort.
Mr.. Collins also received letter
from the gers-Templeton Company,
of Helena. asking him to reserve a
large quantity of this seasons crop
for them. They wish to purchase it to
fill orders they now have on hand for
high-grade seed corn and they realized
that the corn raised in Valley County
will give the very best of results with
satisfactory yields.
Last year Albert Nelson, of Glas-
gov, grew large acreage of corn,
and he was able to dispose of the en-
tire crop at a very fancy price for
seed, sending a number of shipments
to Minnesota and the Dakotas. The
reputation of Valley County corn was
then just beginning to spread over the
country as a result of this county
winning the first prize for the best
exhibit of corn at the State Fair, and
the fact that the same prize was again
won this year at the State Fair has
permanently established Valley Coun-
ty as the best corn producing district
of the state, and resulted in people de-
string the best, looking here for their
seed. Mr.. Collins will be able to dis
/ pose of all the seed corn he wishes to
sell at a very fancy price, and has at
this time orders for more than he will
be able to fill.
The value of the reputation of Val
! ley County corn as result of WIN
ming this premium two consecutive
years at the State Fair shows very
conclusively the benefit reverting te
the county as a result of making the
exhibit at Helena and demonstrates
the wisdom of the necessary expendi.
ture by the county of the money ne
cessary to make showing. This yea,
the benefit was even more extensive
than ever before, as the large number
of first and second premiums won ir
wheat, oats, barley, speltz and flax
besides the corn prizes, has added ma
terially to the reputation of the coun
ty. Its products are recognized ev
erywhere as being of the very best
and the farmers of the county ar,
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