The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-02-12
WESTERN CANADA CORN
Wins First Honors at Kansas
City.

While visiting the Canadian Govern
ment Information Bureau at Kansas
City, where there is on exhibition a
very creditable display of Canadian
products, my attention, says a writer
in the agricultural press, was directed
TO a few ears of Dent corn, bearing
the modest inscription,
''This Northwestern Dent corn took
the first prize at the Soil Products
Exposition recently held in. Kansas
City, Mo-, and was grown by John
Hamilton Of Redwood, Manitoba"
Redwood, Manitoba, lies about twelve
hundred miles north of Kansas City,
and 1t was quite pardOnable that these
Canadians should so proudly parade
the fact that they had been able TO
carry off for their corn display the
blue ribbon that for years the old
"corn-growing' states had looked up
on as being practically their own. and
Tor which, they were strong contest
ants in the recent show.
I asked Mr.. Hewitt, agent in charge
of the Canadian Government Office at
20f2 Main Street, Kansas City, what
the winning of the prize means for
Canada. His reply was that it means
the "corn belt" is moving nOrthward,
and In q few years to the fame that
Canada has already achieved as a
wheat. barley and oats producing cOun-
try. will have to be added that OF
growing the best corn In America.
why" he said, twenty years ago
q friend of mine was attracted at the
Minnesota STATE Fair by the number
- int
corn growth north Of CroOkstOn, Min
nesota. It was not the large ear pro-
duced farther south, but it was an even
ear and perfect kernel. The interest
conferred In it was the fact that it had
been grown so far north. That was
twenty years ago. Today, the trav-
eler on any of the railways in that
section of the country may see field
after field of corn. In many portions
Gf Manitoba" he continued. "out into
Saskatchewan and Alberta, the grow
ing of corn is receiving much atten-
ton, at presently mainly for fodder,
but within q short time, with acclima-
ted seed maturing corn of good quail
fly may reasonably be expected. Al
ready the number of silos in use in
Western Canada indicates that the pro-
gressive farmers there look forward
TO the day when corn will be one OF
their most important crops.
"Corn lands in South Dakota are
said to be selling as high as $3.50 per
acre. and if corn has been the means
of placing these lands at this price
what may be expected of Western Can
ada lands, when the day comes that
corn will be grown as successfully
there?"
1t was not in corn alone that West
ern Canada carried eff the hOnOrs at
the Soil Products Exposition. The
awards won by Western Canada were
40 first, % second. and &c third
prizes. These included list. End and
3rd prizes for hard spring wheat; the
sweepstakes for wheat and the cup Of
fered by Canadian Pacific Railway for
the best half-buShel of hard spring
wheat: LIST, End and Bird prizes and
sweepstakes for oats; list, End and
3rd prizes for barley; and 2nd and
3rd prizes for oats.
It is interesting to note that the
sweepstakes for wheat and first prize
for hard red spring wheat have been
won by Saskatchewan exhibitors
seven times in the last eight years,
Manitoba winning one year.
Potato classes have some interesting
successes for Western Canadian ex-
hibitOrs, who won four f1rsts, three
seconds and three thirds. Exhibitors
from these provinces also made fine
showing in the vegetable classes, win
mig among other prizes the premium
prizes for cabbages, caulifOwers,
pumpkins squash and watermelons.
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