Middletown transcript., 1920-11-27
THE COM. CORN SHOW
Many Prizes Awarded to Local
- Producers
FIFTY SAMPLES WERE SHOWN


The Community Corn Show held here
last Thursday and Friday resulted in the
awarding of the prizes below to the
competitors by E. P. Vogel, teacher Of
vocational agriculture of the Middle
town High School and County Farm
Agent K. 0. Bausnan, through whose
efforts the show was arranged. About
fifty samples of corn were shown, rep
reeenting all the leading popular varie-
ties that are raised in this section. The
show is one of a series being held
throughout the state for the purpose of
whettipg the interest of the corn grow
ers in the big state Corn Show at New
ark, on December, 22 and q.
In many the classes in the local show,
the boys Of the Middletown High School
who had promoted ''corn projects" dur
ing the year, entered in both the open
and the junior classes. and in some in
stances "copped'' the prizes over their
elders.
The results of the show speak high
praise of the vocational branch of agri-
culture being taught here by Mr.. Vogel.
Eight boys of the high school entered
the "Boys Five Acre Corn Club" of the
state and their work has just been fin
ished by the husking and weighing of
the corn. Victor H. Kohl, Jr., secured
the highest yield per acre, having re-
ceived an average of T.M bushels of
crib corn from the five acres. He was
closely pushed for the honors by Gordon
Armstrong, McDonough, who received
yield of rs. 43 of shelled corn per acre.
The lowest yield was at the high figure
of 63 bushels an acre, which is very
cleditable yield for any year or in any
state. The average yield of corn for
the six boys was So bushels per acre.
which is more than q times the average
yield for the state.
The winner of the contest in each
county will be given free scholarship
to the Junior Short Course at Delaware
College during the last week of Decem-
Der under the direction Of the Delaware
College Extension Service. These
scholarships are offered through the
Delaware Corn Growers Association,
which supervised the contests through
the county farm bureaus, the Delaware
College Extension Service and the Vo-
cational Agricultural schools. The
prize winner in each county is selected
through the point system of yield, 70
per cent quality of corn. Is per cent.
'How Grew My Five Acres" includ-
ing a record of labor and all costs, Is
per cent.
Prize winners in the community show
were:
Open class-Best twenty ears yellow
corn, John Bingnear, Sr. Best twenty
ears white-James T. Shallcross. Jr.,
first; Alonzo S. Whittock, second;
George v. Peverley. third. Best ten
ears yellow-Eugene H. Sha;lcross,
Walter Kohl, William Wright. Best
ten ears white-James T. Shallcross,
Alonzo Whittock, John D. Reynolds.
Best ear white-James T. Shallcross,
Alonzo T. Whittock, Victor Kohl, Jr.
Best single ear yellow-Ernest Rat
ledge, Jr.. Walter Kohl, Daniel Bing-
near.
Junior class-Best ten ears yellow
Ernest Ratledge, Jr., Gordon Arm
strong, Daniel Bingnear. Best ten ears
white-Victor Kohl, Jr., Frederick
Brady, Rogers Fouracre. Best single
ear yellow-Ernest Ratledge, Jr., WAL
ter Kohl. Best single ear white-Vic-
tor Kohl, Jr., Irving Armstrong.
Rest peck Irish potatoes-victor
Kohl, Jr., Rogers Fouracre, Daniel
Bingnear.