The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-01-27
CORN SHOW.
Exhibit at Farmers Week a Cham
pionship Display.-COunty
Exhibits Striking.

The recent College Corn Show
carried displays of corn that had won
the big prizes in the local fairs of the
districts represented in many parts
of the state. In fact it was said by
the visitors inspecting 1t to have
been championship display in all
phases where good corn was featur-
ed. Since the show was educational
in nature much of the corn on exhi-
bition being designed to illustrate
some point, good or bad, in corn
growing, a good part of the collec-
tion was composed of corn of poor
quality.
One of the especially strong col
lections was that of Marion county,
brought over and presented by Lu-
ther Chaplin, formerly county agri-
culturist of Marion. 1t was composed
of eight 100-ear exhibits that had
taken highest honors at the Marion
County Corn and Potato Show. The
quality of this exhibit caused many
comments on the progress being
made in growing corn in Oregon.
Another collection from Marion
county was composed of a dozen va
rieties Of popcorn and sweetcorn, all
of which seemed we'll adapted to the
conditions prevalent in the William
cite Valley.
Coos county had an exhibit that
was designed to establish it's claim
of being one of the best corn and COW
counties in the state. The collection
was brought over by j. L. Smith,
county agriculturist, and was COM
posed of twelve 10-ear entries. The
uniform good quality excited great
deal Of favorable attention. Some of
the best exhibits were grown in the
Myrtle Point district but two other
regions were creditably represented.
The Tillamook collection, entered
by Roy c. Jones, county agriculturist
consisted of five 10-ear entries. The
corn from this great dairy district
was not large but it was we'll de-
veloped and showed that corn can be
successfully produced in connection
with dairying.
The Lane county collection was
grown by C. S. Calef and was
brought down for entry by the coun-
ty agriculturist, R. B. Coglon. The
10-ear exhibit showed some of the
largest and best developed corn of
the show and was the subject of fa-
vorable comment.
The College bred corn was exhib-
tied in both the Minnesota 23 and
13, the former a white, early matur-
ing sort, and the latter type of two
types, silage and grain. The silage
type was made up of large ears that
would supply rich grain content to
silage, and is associated with stalks
carrying a heavy growth of blade
The smaller grain type was much
the most noticeable feature
being the long narrow grains on a
cob so short as to be almost negligi-
BILE. 1t is this feature that gives the
corn its early maturing qualities and
it to run very high in grain.
Farmers will be interested to
know that for the first time seed of
the yielding College varieties is
available in ample quantities.
College corn was also used to dem
onstrate variety qualities in a test OF
a dozen varieties grown under pre-
cisely similar soil and climatic con-
ditions on the College farm. The va
rieties included corn yellow, white
and red, and showed marked differ
ences in productive capacity and
grain quality. The display was az
ranged by students of Agronomy,
who took pleasure in explaining the
meaning of the display to farmers
and others interested.
A maturity of moisture content at
time of harvest, consisted of seven
grown under like condi-
ions. The amount of moisture COLI
aimed in each pound of corn was
shown in glass jars, placed near each
While this moisture varied
greatly in the different varieties it
vas too high for storing corn in cribs
1t harvest time in nearly all of them.
A noticeable exception was that of
he College bred Minnesota % which
showed moisture low enough for put
ing in crib at harvest.
The College demonstration Of the
effects of corn-breeding consisted of
many collections showing greater
,r less degree of resemblance to the
parent stock. Corn grown from long
,ar corn was uniformly longer than
hat from short ear corn, the short
,st of the lot being longer than the
ongest of the short-ear lot. The
ame uniformity was seen in the
hick and slender ear parentage,
mooth and rough grain, open rows
nd close, pointed ends and cylindri-
al ends, shallow and deep grains,
nd especially high and low yielding.
his part of the demonstration was
n three groups, one from high yield
ng, one from low yielding and one
rom medium. Each was taken from
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