American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-10-07
Barber Writes From
Denver About Our Exhibit

Idaho wheat has received marked recognition,
both by the judges and from the public. When the
judges made their preliminary inspection they tag
ged the best sacks had them assembled at point,
and the Turkey Red of Lindauer, Mcknight and
Betke were all included in seventeen bushels which
underwent crucial inspection. The spring bluestem
of Mcknight and Meningitis oats had not more than
half dozen of the pick of their class against them
After seeing all the entries / concluded that we
had chance, but feared Canada and Colorado the
former account of the color and great care taken
in selecting their exhibit, and Colorado on account
of the large number of entries from the many cOun-
ties of the state Our wheat was entered in class l
No. l, and class l, No. A. for hard winter and soft
spring respectfully. On these entries the Turkey
Red of Dan Lindauer was awarded second and the
spring Bluestem of William Mcknight second l
thought two ribbons four sacks Of wheat was
pretty good and was much elated.
Then came a complaint from someone belated
entryman who had brought some fine exhibits and
was shut out from the contest, who asked for
judging on dry farm wheat alone. In this test the
Lindauer wheat took second again. and the Nc
Knight blueStem given third making us four ribbons
on four sacks of wheat.
The man who did the judging passed our booth
the day following the awards dipped his hands into
each sack, tossed the grain in his palms, turned it
over bit 1t for hardness lingering minutes and
walked away shaking his head but saying not a word
A short time afterward two men came to the booth
and asked to see the good wheat the Judge had told
them about One was from Longmont, Colorado the
other from Nebraska. Both were given pint samples
for seed. Requests have been made by number for
samples and the probabilities are thaTa the wheat
bring home will come in jars holding about gal
lon each.
Wheat this year is very much off color Among
the exhibits are numbers that appear to be from
quarter to third yellow. If can get samples of
them will bring home little display that will be
interesting to our wheat growers This display will
include the winners as well as the inferior exhibits
The exhibits are simply fine, and the taste in ar
rangement better than thought possible. The ag-
ricultura colleges of Colorado, Nebraska South
Dakota, North Dakota, Oregon, Washington and
California here and with such exceptionally good
exhibits and such mass of information concerning
all things in their states in which farmers stockmen
and fruit growers interested, as to make Idaho
suffer by comparison Idaho is practically the only
state west Of the Mississippi that is not represented
by state exhibit and it is nothing short Of shame
that this is true All that Idaho can show is wheat
from American Falls, and it takes half my time ex-
planning that we raise a few pumpkins and potatoes
in addition to wheat We should now begin to plan
for exhibit at the next congress- not necessarily
large exhibit but which is representative of our
resources. We have as good chance of winning
first wheat anyone if we go after it in the right
way, and begin time and is the time to begin
1t has cost more to make small display than a
larger would have cost for the reason that
homely person requires more logging up than a
! handsome one.
! o. II. BARBER.