Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-03-25
CORN CONTEST FOR
BURLE|GH FARMERS
Suitable Prizes Offered by Com
mercial Club for Best
Ears.

Champion corn growers or Eur
leigh county are to be given an op'
pOrtunity to compete for substantial
prizes, which will be offered by the
Commercial club for the best ten
ears OF the several most popular va
rieties grown in Blrleigh county this
year. The agricultural committee OF
the Commercial club met yesterday
and formed tentative plans for the
contest, which was decided upon by
the directors Of the club last fall.
Five prizes will be offered for the
best exhibits in each class, and there
will be sweepstakes awards for the
winners Of the greatest number OF
class prizes. The varieties which will
be entered in the contest are: Vel
low Dent, White Dent, Northwestern
Dent, Yellow Flint, White Flint, Mix
ed Flint and Mixed Dent. The class
prizes will be in amounts of SO, S.,
SO, 50 and 81, and the three sweep
stakes awards will be $15. $40 and S..
Prizes at IMd-Winter Show.
All entries are to be exhibited at
the corn show which will be held in
connection with the Md-Winter Fair,
as feature of the conventions of the
North Dakota Livestock association
and the Missouri Slope Poultry asso-
citation next winter; the exhibits will
be judged at that time, and the prizes
awarded. Any farmer. young or old.
residing in Burleigh county, is eligi-
Bile TO compete, and large number
OF prize entries are anticipated.
Demonstration Plot.
Burleigh county is to have dem
onstration plot, located on the Red
Trail, where thousands Of tourists
will see it during the summer season
}. A. Field of the agricultural COM
mittee yesterday offered the Commer-
cial club a tract Of ten acres, or
more, Immediately adjoining the
road, with the understanding that it
is to be planted and cared for by an
expert. The committee went on rec.
ord as favoring the acceptance of
this offer, and will so recommend to
the Commercial club.
1t was suggested that for the first
year. at least, the demonstration plot
be divided into five equal parts Of
two acres each, and that each sec
ton be planted and cultivated in a
different way, as a means Of proving
the method which is most practical
in Bnrleigh county. 1t was also rec
commended that there be erected at
the roadside a large sign. advertis-
ing the "COmmercial Cmb Demonstra-
ton Plat and calling attention to
the fact tina, this soil has been crop
ped for 40 consecutive years.
Many Want Farm Agent.
II was reported that The petitions
calling upon the county commission
to appropriate for the employment
OF an expert county agricultural agent
were being freely signed, and that
representative farmers throughout
the county appear to be in favor or
the organization of a county farm b,l,
reau. which will encourage better
farming methods
lnasmuch as $1,000 per annum from
the federal funds will be available
to Burleigh county, under the provi.
sions of the Smith-Lever act, the cost
to the county would be Slight. 1t is
believed that a practical man can be
employed for a reasonable salary,
and that his services will more than
pay for themselves in increased pro-
duction and higher crop averages.
To Ask N. p. Aid.
the secretary was instructed to
cores with tho Nnrthorr D,,;f,
officials at st. Paul. with view to
inducing the railway company to en-.
gage in demonstration work in Bur.
leigh county. The committee felt that
such cooperation, if it could be pro.
cured, would prove very valuable in
connection with the work of a coun-
ty farm agent.
A farm contest, in which the farms
entered will be judged according to