The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-11-26
STATE CORN SHOW TO BE OPEN
TO WORLD COMPETITION


The Pennsylvania State Corn Show
held in connection with the Annual
Farm Products Show, will this veal
be open to the competition of the en-
tire world. For the first time the bars
will be let down to corn growers out
side of Pennsylvania and the Sweep.
stake winners in the Pennsylvania
competition will be matched against
ten ear exhibits from any state in the
Union that cares to exhibit.
A prize of $25 will be awarded the
winner of this world class and it is
believed that more than dozen states
will endeavor to wrest the honors
away from Pennsylvania.
The Fifth Annual Farm Products
Show will be held at Harrisburg, Janu-
airy 24-2S and will easily be the great
est exhibition of agricultural products
ever shown in Pennsylvania. Already
farmers and farm bureaus from every
section of the state have announced
their intentions of entering their
choicest products of field and orchard
at the show. Many of these exhibits
have already won honors at the coun-
try fairs and agricultural expositions,
so that the show will really bring to-
gether the prize winning products
from each community.
The Corn Show alone will be fea-
ture of no small magnitude. In order
to secure more even classification and
judging Of the corn, the state has been
divided into five districts. The win
ners in these districts, together with
the honorary classes, will compete for
the sweepstake prizes, which in turn
will compete with the entries from
other states in the world class.
In each of the districts, the prizes
will be the same Five cash prizes, S.,
$3.50, $3.50, 50 and 81 will be offered
the winners in each of the four var1-
eties-Yellow Dent, White Dent, White
Capped Yellow Dent and Flint, except
that there will be no prizes offered for
the Flint variety in the Fifth district.
The counties are arranged in dis
tricts as follows:
District No. Bucks, Chester, Della
ware, Lancaster, Montgomery, Phila-
delphia and York counties.
District No. adams, Berks, Cum
'berland, Dauphin. Franklin, Lebanon,
Lehigh, Northampton and Perry coun-
ties.
4, District No. 3-Armstrong, Beaver,
Bedford, Blair, Butler, Cambria, Cen
ter, Clinton, Columbia, Fulton, Hun
tingdon, Indiana, Juniata, Lawrence,
Lycoming, Mercer, Mifflin, Montour,
Northumberland, Schuylkill, Snyder,
Somerset and Union Counties.
District No. 4-Bradford, Cameron,
Carbon, Clarion, Clearfeld, Crawford,
Elk, Erie, Forest, Jefferson, Lacka-
wanna, Luzerne, Mexican, Monroe,
Pike, Potter, Sullivan, Susquehanna,
Tioga, Venango, Warren, Wayne and
Wyoming counties.
District No. 5-Allegheny, Fayette,
Greene, Washington and Westmore,
land counties.
The honorary state class consists of
exhibitors who won a first premium
in a district in 1918, 1919 and 1920.
These exhibitors are barred from COM
peting in the same classes in which
they won either last year of the year
before, but their exhibits may be en-
tered in competition with this years
district winners for the sweepstake
prizes. Four prizes of 81, SO, So, and
81 will be offered for the winners in
each of the four varieties of corn.
The grand champion prize of $40
will be awarded to the best exhibit of
ten ears, regardless of variety.
A special prize of $40 will be
awarded the ten ears Smelling the
greatest amount of corn.
Three prizes of $40, So and S. will
be awarded for the best exhibit of
thirty ears of White Dent, Yellow
Dent, White Capped Yellow Dent and
Flint. The prizes will be offered for
each of the four varieties.
A special prize Of IS will be awarded
to the champion ear Of the show,