East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-09-19
Show Starts at 7:3O With
Band Concert, Speakers to
Tell Of Shows Meaning.
UMATILLA COUNTY HAS
14o EXHIBITS IN PLACE
Awards win be Made Best
Exhibits Wednesday: G. r.
HysIop Serving as Judge.

The second greatest grain and hay
show in the United States will open
tonight in Pendleton with the presen4
tation OF the Northwest Grain and Hay
show, with 500 exhibits OF grain and
hay from oregon. Washington, Idaho
and Montana, and premium list Of
$500. the greatest ever offered In the
Northwest for such products. The
show is second only to the Interna-
tlonal Show held in Chicago.
thousand dollars worth Of balea
hay was used in the construction Of
the building which houses the show,
and which is located on Main and
railroad streets. The building is most
unique, the sides and ends being Of
hay. with roof Of canvas. orange
pennants. green bunting and electric
lights are used in decorating the buiId-
ing, where by tonight grain exhibits
equal in expanse to three city blocks
will be shown, together with baled hay
In Bushei lots
Each grain exhibit measures one
b'Ishel, and there are no hand pick
ed exhibits. There are many varie-
ties and each is being placed in sep
arate bin. classified with the name Of
the grower. the locality and the kind
of wheat. The exhibits are shown IN
three long rows, the bins being deco
rated with sheayes Of Umatilia county
wheat. Awards for the exhibits will
be made by Wednesday morning. O.
K. Hyslop, head Of the farm crops de-
partmeat at Oregon Agricultural Col
lege, will make the awards. He is en-
thusiastic regarding the grains and
hay and says that the exhibition is
splendid.
Umatilla county Is represented by
l40 entries. Other wheat entries ln-
clude 35 from Montana, 80 from
Washington, 25 from Idaho. 25 from
Morrow county, 20 from Sherman, IL
from Wasco, five from the WiIIamette
Valley, 10 from Union and 10 from
Wailowa. There will also be aoout Is
hay entries, mostly from Umatilla and
Morrow counties and from the Yaki-
ma valleys Dayton and Columbia
have sent entries by truck. California
sent one entry an exhibit of Rosen rye.
Many prominent wheat growers will
attend the exhibition. G. b. Ohison. Of
Boise. idaho, state seed Commissioners.
D. f. Stevens. of the Morrow expert.
rent station. Harold K Dean. OF the
Hermiston station, r. Withycombe 0t
ale Jlun station and Obil Shattuck
Of the Burns station will also attend
during the show
Ora ms From This County
One hundred beautiful sheaves OF
wheat. barley and oats, comprising the
Is varieties of wheat and several ot
barley and oats grown in Umattlls
county. from an attractive decoration
for the ends of the rows of bins. They
We're selected from Umatilla county
wheat fields. and were arranged By
Frank Groves, assistant to Fred Ben
nion. county agriculture agent. Among
the varieties in the sheaves are Red
Russian. Hard Federation. Forty Fold,
Jenkins Club. White Hybrid and Tur-
key Red wheat. White Winter and Bluc
barley, These sheaves are not entered
n the show but are used as decora-
tion.
Grain Grading Exhibit
Why hard wheats bring more money
than other varieties is shown in pic
torial exhibit by the Federal Grain
Supervision office. Of the Pacific
Coast. The display shows the baking
! tests and that bread made from Hard
Red Spring wheat Is superior to that
made from other wheats. The relative
value of Hard Red Spring. Hard Red
! Winter. Durun, Soft Red Winter and
/ Common White Club. as found In tests
made to discover the relation OF the
est weight to the flour yield, is shown.
There are also pictures Of the equip
ment used in testing grain, and a series
of pictures shows how a tester enters
a car. takes a sample. emptles the
grain probe. places the wheat In an
alright can. determines the moisture
content, determines the weight and
dockage, etc
Show Begins at 1880
Following a short band concert ~
Hotel Pendleton tonight. the Round
Up band will proceed 20 the Grain
Show building viii Peterson. Pen
dleton lawyer win give the principal
address during the evening. There
Will be talks by George A. Hartman,
mayor OF Pendloton: ]. II. HtnFs'e
nreafdanf of the psudlat0H Eanauffs