The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-29
Offer BIC PRIZES
Farm Congress Seeks To En-
courage Food Production.
VIII Hold Show in Kansas City
October Is to 26.
CUP NEARLY As TALL AS 4 MAN
VIII Be Given to State Having
Best Display.
Extra Fine Awards To Be Made
on Wheat.
OCTOBER 16 to 70.
CUP NEARLY As TALL AS A MAN

Kansas City, Mo-, June 29.-Nearly
10000 is this year offered for agri-
cultural exhibits in the premium list,
now ready for distribution by the In
ternationaI Son Products exposition,
which will be held at Kansas City,
Mo-, October 1926
The management, in keeping with
the Win the War" policies to which
it is so strongly committed, will this
year pay SO per cent of its cash pre-
niuns in war savings ana tnrlLt
stamps This rule will not, however.
be enforced in the case of winners re-
siding without the United States.
Gigantic Cup for Winning State.
The state competition, always very
keen, is this year further encouraged
by an unusually fine array OF trophy
cups and cash offerings. Chief OF
these is the big silver cup for best
general display by a state, province
Or nation- This is a magnificent
trophy nearly as tall as a man, OF
handsome design and valued at $500:
II is offered by the Chicago board OF
trade. Other cups in this class rotal
more than $1,000
The counties are well taken care o.
eleven cups md nearly s1'9Oo IN cash
being set aside fer this class or eX-
hibits.
Fine Wheat Prizes.
Increased production of wheat is
encoura ged by an array OF prizes un-
equalIed by any other talr or e1posi-
+ion Two hundred and seventy dol
lars In cash is offered in six varieties.
In addition there is a special or1erlng,
for the best bushe1 of hard spring
wheat of a $500 trophy cup by the
Canadian Pacific Railway company.
The sweepstakes award is SlOo
trophy cup. and one Deering or Nc
Corn1ick grain binder complete OF
its equivalent in INC machinery, by
the International Harvester company
II IS thus possible for the winning
sample to net the grower $50 IN
cash. machinery and trophies II the
sveeptakes sample happens to be nara
snrinr and also dry-farrned the
amount is increased to 1856
Corn is next in point OF prizes OF
fered One hun 1red ana rlItg-eiSll
dollars in cash is offered in SIX var1e-
ties The sweepstakes is SIS IN cash,
a silver trophy cup. value s10o' ana
ore John Deere corn planter, vaiue
SIS, offered by Deere & Co.
Other crops are allotted their pro-
portiohate share Of cash and trop mes
and are recognized according to their
economic Importance.
Fine Horticulture Prizes.
filled and the premiums worthy or
considerable effort Several handsome
trophy cups are offered in this section,
the most notable being 500 cup for
best and most artistic display or ap-
pies crown by one exhibitor.
In addition to the general classes
there IL featured a section devoted ex-
cIusiveIy to dry-farmed products The
same samples entered in the general
Ella sscs may be entered in this also.
the exhibitor thereby having double
chance at the prize money Sweep
stakes for dry-farmed wheat is $50
trophy cup and SIS in cash, and for
best collective exhibit by an individ-
uaI farmer, $50 in cash. and $50
trophy cup offered by Governor Gun
ter of Colorado.
The International Soil-Products ex-
position is conducted by and under
the auspices of the International Farm
congress. with offices in the New York
Life building thru its board OF gov
errors The Keynote of both congress
and exposition is Conservation, Gull
tivation, Education"