Smyrna times., 1920-12-22
CORN GROWING TO RECEIVE
IMPETUS At COMMING SHOW
HARRY B. CLARK, OF KENTON,
REPRESENTS KENT COUNTY
Meeting of the Corn Association
State Corn and Tractor School Show
To Be Held at Delaware College

The Delaware Corn Growers Asso-
citation will hold their fourteenth an
nual State Corn Show at Newark in
the armory, December 1880, in con-
nection with the Farmers Short
Course and Tractor School of Della
ware College. The State appropriates
$500 to the association annually viii /
is all used in cash prizes for best eE-
hibits of corn, small grain, seeds and
forage. In addition the association
has special prizes and sweepstak IS.
The Delaware State Grange award,
annually a fine silver cup to the
Grange in the State which exhibits
the best three ten-ear smaples of corn
grown by three members. Compel
ton for the cup and the $500 in cash
offered by the association promises to
be the keenest in years. Kent anil
Sussex counties thru number of To-
cal and county shows are preparing
to take some of the championship
laurels usually captured by the New
Castle county corn growers. The Off
GERS of the association have planned
an excellent program for December
20 and 80, Snd have secured some Of
the best speakers and authorities on
: corn growing which this country af-
fodrs.
Prof. Grantham Will Address Meeting
Prof. A. E. Grantham, director Of
;. the Agricultural Sericev of the Vir
ginia- Carolina Chemical Company anC
. former head of the Agromony Depart
6 ment of the col-ege, will judge th'
. exhibits and address the convention
: Wednesday afternoon, December 2e
on "Plant Food for the Corn Crop
{ On Wednesday morning, Stanle.
: Short, of Smyrna, will tell how he pro
!. duced 100 bushels of corn per acre ol
> his five acres in the Boys Five Ac
Corn Club. Thursday morning, Prot
: J. E. Metzger, of Maryland Agricult
a ural College, will discuss "Rotati
and Fertilization to Increase our Cor
!. Yields" DIR. 7. F. Manns; Plant Pa
n biologist of Delaware College. w
~ discuss the corn root rot which is caulS
% ing serious losses in Delaware. Hi
address will be illustrated with CO..
h taken from infected fields in stud
r WHICH he has recently made.
n Corn Growers Dinner at the COlleg
a, A big event of the meeting this yes
tx will be the Corn Growers Dime
d. which will be indulged in at the Co
" lege Commons at noon Thursday.
ID. this event and the program to folio
in the Corn Growers Association is C
'ls operating with the Delaware Holste
ell Friesian Association. The latter ha
secured D. D. Aitkin, president of Il
ay Holstein Fresian Association
III America to address the meeting.
II is an opportunity of a life time
,is any dairyman to hear President A
M kin. Walter C. Hullihen, president
no Delaware College, will address
,er meeting and the Corn Growers Ass
,a1 citation, cooperating with the Sta
ble Board of Agriculture, will ava
os- prizes for the prize yields of co
,er grown in Delaware in 1920, which "
ion consist of medals and scholarshi
of The Corn Growers Association {
,ell tends an invitation to every farmer
and Delaware to attend this show q
o,n progress. The officers of the assoc
She ton are w. V. Cosden, Dover, pre-
and dent; vice presidents: w. Nauds
in New Castle county; Harry B. Cla
I of Kent county; E. L. Kinder. SusI
one county. M. o. Pence, of Delaw
ell. College, is secretary-treasurer.
and