Newark post., 1921-12-28
Corn Growers
Annual Show
Program for the Meeting in
Seaford Three Days
Next Week
Local Men Obtain Honors

The fifteenth annual State Corn
Show, under the auspices of the Della
ware Corn Growers Association, will
be held at Seaford in the Junior
American Mechanics Hall beginning
Tuesday, January 8, and continuing
until the evening of January 5. "We
shall have not only the biggest show
this year, in the history of the asso-
citation, but the BEST" says John
Ponder, Milton, president of the asso-
citation. In addition to the $500 in
cash prizes offered for the best ex-
hibits of corn, small grain and for
age, there will be awarded as sweep
stake prizes on best exhibits of corn
four silver medals and a gold medal.
Competition of these prizes promises
to be the keenest in years as result
of the number of exhibitors who have
been sowing at the various local and
district shows in all three counties.
Entries for the show will close on
Tuesday, when all exhibits must be
in the hands of Secretary M. o.
Pence, at Seaford.
A special feature of the State Corn
Siw will be the annual business meet
and and corn growers program held
on Wednesday morning, January A,
in the Opera House. The program of
the meeting will be:
A JJracc hu iJapt
John Ponder; reports of vice-presi-
dents, secretary-treasurer, Judge A.
E. Grantham, Boys Five Acre Club
Contest.
Afternoon, 1.3O-Address, Ger
tiizing the Corn Crop" A. f. Gran
than, director agricultural service
for the Virginia Caroline Chemical
Co.; address, Selecting and Exhibit
ing Corn" A. D. Radenbaugh, county
agent, Cecil county, Md; address,
"How to Control Corn Root Rot Dis
cases." DR.. 7. F. Manns, plant path
ologist, University of Delaware; dis
cussion, led by Norval Pepper, Sea-
ford.
All meetings will be open to the
public without charge.
In addition to the cash prizes and
medals offered for the best exhibits
of corn and small grain the Corn
Growers Association offers three
scholarships to the Junior Short
Course at the University of Delaware
for the week ending December 81, to
the boy in each county who stands
highest in the Boys Five Acre Corn
Club. Each scholarship is valued at
ten dollars.
To the best corn judge among the
boys of the state will be awarded a
sterling silver challenge cup, now in
the hands of the first winner, Stanley
Short, Cheswold.
The officers of the association are
President, John Ponder, Milton; vice.
presdents-New Castle county, Ros-
we'll Schaefer, Granogue; Kent coun-
ty, R. w. Wiley, Dover; Sussex
county, Norval Pepper, Seaford; sec
retary-treasurer, M. o. Pence, New
ark.
Harry Armstrong, McDonough, and
Herman McCarns, Newark, have
produced the high yields in the Five
Acre and One-Acre Boys Club Corn
Growing Contest, and will be award
ed free scholarships to the Junior
Short Course now being held at the
University of Delaware.
On his five-acre plot Harry Arm
strong produced 95 bushels of corn
and on the one-acre plot Herman Nc
earns prouced SO bushels. These
yields were computed on a 20 per
centum moisture basis.
The plots were supervised by
Harry Mcdonald, agricultural in
structor of Newark High School; E.
P. Vogel, agricultural instructor of
Middletown High School; R. o.
Bausman, county agent, Newark. M.
o. Pence, county agent leader, and
A. D. Cobb, state club leader, are
sponsors for the authenticity of the
records.
Other members of the club who did
good work in this contest are: Clark
Burge, Lester Burge, Irwin Arm
strong, Victor Kohl, Albert Daniels,
Ernest Ratledge, all of Middletown;
Herman Conner, Newark; Gordon
Armstrong, McDonough.