The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-08-05
FARM BUREAU NEWS NOTES
BOOSTER EXHIBIT AT STATE FAIR FOR
MELLETTECOUNTY
By A. S. GRAY, County Agent.

Mellette county had a splendid ex-
| hibit at The State Fair last year. but
this year they plan TO have a better
| one. Plans for the collection Of the
exhibit are under way now, and it is
requested that every farmer, with
crops Of grain, hay or seeds, that show
above the average, should bring his
best samples to the Office Of the COun-
ty Agent, to be put into the county
exhibit. Vegetable and truck crops,
rs well as orchard fruits are also need
ed for the exhibit.
There is only a little over a month
until the State Fair will be upon us,
SO all persons, who have what they
think to be good samples of their farm
produce should bring them to town
with them when they come, in order
to facilitate matters, and get the big
display in shape. We will need sam
| pies of everything grown on the farm
to make UP this big exhibit.
Below is a list of the things neceS-
sary to have included in the display
in order to make it complete in every
class. You may be the only person in
The county who has a good stand of a
particular crop in one or the other OF
these classes. sol if you have a good
sample of anything be sure and send
it in. Samples Of all kinds Of corn
will be especially hard to get, owing
to the fact that the corn crop is late,
but we need many TO select the best
from, Help US all you can.
There are six prizes offered ranging
from $500 for first place to $50 for
sixth.
There are twelve classes of farm
products to be filled in making up a
complete entry, which makes a total
of 1900 points upon which the exhibit
is judged, they are:
/, Corn, 10 ear samples. Yellow
dent, white dent, mixed dent, flint,
early sweet; late sweet, pop corn,
2. Wheat, peck samples. Turkey
or Kharkov, Blue Stem. Marquis,
Preston, Kubanka.
3. Oats, peck samples, Sixty Day
Keerson, Swedish Select Silvermine.
4. Other Grains, peck samples.
Barley one variety, Manchura, Odessa
Hannchen, Gatami, Winter or spring
Rye, Flax, Emmer or Speltz.
5. Seed Grasses or Forage Plants.
Alfalfa, Alslke, Medium Red Glover,
White Sweet Glover, Yellow Sweet
Glover, Timothy, Blue Grass, Bromus
inernuS, Sorghum or Amber cane, Mil
let.
G.. Sheaf Grain. Number Of var
leties must be the same, in sheafs,
not less than three inches in diameter
as the threshed grain, and must be
correctly named.
Z. Grasses and forage plants takes
eight varieties each sheaf over two
, inches i'm diameter and correctly nam
ed.
8. Wild grasses in sheaf five variet-
les.
3. Potatoes. Early and late at
least n peck of each.
10. Vegetables. Beans one quart,
BeetS table six roots. Beets stock Man
gel three roots, Beets sugar three
roots, Cabbage early one head, Cab
bage late n head, Carrots table six
roots, Caulihower one head, Celery
three roots, Cucumber six fruits, Egg
Plant three fruits, Kohl Rabbi three
heads, Muskmelon melon, Water.
melon one melon, Onion six bulbs,
Parsnips six roots, Peas dry n pint,
Peppers three fruits, Pumpkin one
fruit, Radish winter six roots, Ruta.
baga three roots, Satisfy six roots,
Squash n fruit, Tomato six fruits,
Turnips six roots.
IL. Fruits. Apples three varieties,
Crabs, Plums, Grapes.
All persons who send i'm samples
Should have their names plainly writ,
ten on a card attached, with the va
= riety of the exhibit. If a grain there