The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-03-09
LINING UP PREMIUMS
FOR NEXT STATE FAIR
Secretary Skinner Now Busy
With Preliminary Work of
Getting Prizes.


for special prizes at the 1917 Mon
tana state fair show over $4,000 in
various awards by the state fair or
firms who are cooperating with the
in an effort to encourage
the farmer and stockbreeder of Mon
tana to produce higher quality of
farm products and better livestock.
Secretary r. S. Skinner has just
announced as preliminary to the
compilation of the 1917 catalogue and
premium list $1,425 for wheat, $3.50
for oats, $50 for flax, $500 for corn,
$100 for spuds, s1,O65 for pigs, $733
for beef cattle, $75 for dairy cattle
and $102 for sheep.
The Montana state fair will give
one big premium of 5000 value, the
nature of the prize to be announced
later This is for the best 10 sheaves
of turkey red wheat taken from a
field of not less than 10 acres, and
gathered just as it comes from the
binder, to be threshed on the fair
grounds during the week of the fair,
The second prize will be 500; third,
$50; and fourth, S25. For the best
10 sheaves Of marquis wheat, taken
from field of not less than 10
acres, gathered as it comes from the
binder and to be threshed on the fair
grounds, the Anaconda Copper Min
ing company of Butte offers S27:5 in
six prizes. The McCaull-Dinsmore
company, grain dealers, through
Manager Frank A. Bailey of their
Helena office have offered $75 in cash
for Turkey Red, Marquis and Durum
wheat.
The state fair oats special will con-
sist of $3.50 offered in four cash
prizes for the best one bushel and
five sheaves of wheat of any variety.
The fair flax special will be for the
best peck and three sheaves of flax;
$50 offered in three cash prizes.
This year the state fair will pay
more than special attention to corn
and has hung up a total of $500 in
premiums for this product. For the
best 20 ears Of White Dent and Yel-
low Dent $500 will be offered in three
prizes. For the best 20 ears North
western Dent, three prizes aggre-
eating 500 will be offered and for
the best 10 ears each of White Flint
and Yellow Flint S1OO will be offered
in three prizes.
Maurice Weiss, manager of The
Placer hotel Of Helena offers 500
in four prizes for the best six va
rieties of potatoes to be from 10 to
IL ounces in individual weight.
In the swine division the National
Duroc-Jersey Record association Of
'ers $50 in cash to be awarded boys
and girls and s4OO in cash to futurity
exhibitors.
The American Short Horn Breeders
association offers 1888 for shorthorn
cattel and the American Hereford Cat
tie Breedrs' association $3.50 in spe-
cial prizes for Herefords. The Hol-
-Friesian association offers S75
for Holstein dairy cattle and the
American Jersey Cattle club will of
fer cash prizes to Jersey showers, to
be announced later.
On special prizes for sheep to be
given for the breed represented by
the association the following are Of
fered: American Cotswold Registry
association, $15; the American Hamp-
shire Sheep association, SAP; the
American Oxford-Down Record asso.
citation, S45; the American Shropshire
Registry association will announce
prizes later.
The American Percheron society
will offer prize ribbons and casf
prizes for Percherons to be shown al
the fair horse show.