The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-09-26
SEPTEMBER 25.27 IS DALE;
KANSAS CITY PLACE
Nearly Fifteen thousand Dollars
Will Be Awarded 10 the
Exhibitors. -
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Kansas City. Mo-. September 23.---
Undeterred by the experience Tlast
year when the "anr epidemic caus
ed the cancellation of,Nthe seasons
thirty minutes before the doors op-
cned. the international Farm con-
Gress and Soil Products Exposition
will hold the boards here thiso week.
The farm congress, world forum
for agriculturalists, will be in session
September 25, 26 and 27. while the
exposition, which is held under the
direction of the congress-, will open
September "a for period of eleven
days.
Representative of foreign nations
and provinces, states, farmer .asso-
Citations, agricultural colleges and
kindred institutions constitute the
delegates to the fourteenth annual
session Of the farm congress. George
Albert Smith of Sail Lake City,
Utah, is president Of the organiza
ton.
Before this bodye of representative
agriculturalists OF the world will be
debated subjects OF International. ma
tional sectional and local interest. Rep
resentatives of the packing industry,
q well known official OF the national
grain board. advocates of;YSeeretary
Franklin Lanes siand reclamation,
projects and others who haye met
with opposition from the men who
till the soil viii be present to take
part in discussions. ee
Contest, Gin States.
Leading all other contests in in
terest at the exposition arc the an
nual Contest iR the States" in
which nations, pf6vinces and states
compete for a $500 cup. aVd the
comretition to determine the best
half bushel of wheat in the world.
Although the sessions of the con
gress and Exposition have been held
all over the nation and once in Can
ada, two midv-estern states, Net
raska and Kansas. have taken tho
largest number of sweepstakes in
the Contest of the States" The
Sunfiower State was winner OF
first place ir 1915 at Denver and re-
peated, il 1916heatt Ell RNssh sNeb-
raska broke thHTKansas run by tax :
ing first place in 1917 at Peoria. H.,
hut the two stateS tied foradirst hon
crs last year at Kansas QitD where
all prizes were Observation-Disclosures
the exposition saattes never opened.
Each year the 6gmpetit lpIlw between q
the two states has been CLOSE. Bruce
Wilson of the Kansas STATE Agri-
critural college, asse mpted The ex-
hibit for his stale and ARNOLD Mar
tisn.s. of Dubpisss ls*sbyaalia. Isl IN
charge of the NebrasS aE display,
Canada Woh Sweepsta
Canada has won sweepstakes in
The wheat competition Eye, ,consecu- :
tive years, Wheeler a 4 ,Rosthern,
Saskatchewan Farmer, ,rbas taken
three first placeso for the sBTjtish pos
session. and wifi exhibit again this
year. Samuel mfafconbed qf Brittle,
Manitoba was champion wheat rails
er of the world Tn s1913d, Wheat
growers of the phitedg STATES, and
notably those 81 Kansas ! are. deter
mined that the trophies and prizes
will remain in this country this year,
and the competition for first honors
in the wheat sweepstakes promises
to be close. The best half -bushel OF
wheat may win $1,000 fol-. its owner,
end the least it can win is $685..
Nearly $4,000 in cash and trophy
rrizes will be awarded to exhibitors.
These premiums, the largest offered
any. fair or exposition, are open to
the world, except in few special
classes, which are OPEN eto farmers
of. sections or provinces. NcSome OF
the silver tronhgy cups ARD huge al
fairs. measuring anearly four feet in
height and costing $500 each, oth-
crg range in size. down tn the ones
offered in the ordinary sweepstakes
contests. Hosraa stgf2