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$40 In Prizes FOR
Maryland Grown Corn

: College Park Dec. 11-TWenty-tWo
prizcs with a money value of 1920
one of them the $45 first premium
for yellow corn, made up the total
awards on Maryland grown corn at
the International Grain and Hay
Show at Chicago last week and is
the most sweeping victory when
farmers of the state have ever won
in the keen competition, according TO
officials of the University OF Mary
land who attended the exhibition.
The achievement of the Maryland
growers is regarded as an unpre-
cedented victory for state the size
of MARYLAND, especially as Region 4
in which Maryland growers must
compete is composed of some OF the
more noted corn producing states OF
the famous corn belt such as Kansas;
Missouri and the southern sections OF
Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, In the
number Of prizes won, Maryland was
second, ranking next to Indiana
Last year growers in the state won
seventeen prizes. five below the hs-
ure for this year. The outstanding
achievement, however, was the cap
turing of first place in the yellow
corn class which included nearly 500
exhibits
Maryland growers were up
against real competition" said J. r.
Metzger. argonomist for the Univer-
sity of MARYLAND Experiment Station
who acted as one of the five judges
at the show this year, in commenting
on the showing made by the state,
mot only did Region supply near
IN half OF the 1900 corn exhibits at
the show, but it is & recognized fact
that the finest quality is invariably
produced in tn territory included III
this region. An unusual fine quality
of corn, the best displayed at the
show in recent years, intensified the
competition.
Out of a total of fifty possible
: prizes offered for ten-ear exhibits of
yellow corn, Maryland growers won
eight with a total value of $120.
First in this class was the ten-eaf
sample of G, D. Radebaugh' OF
Bynum. Hartford county, who was
awarded the first prize Of $40. Other
winners in this class were; 18th, Gar
met Radebaugh. Bynum, $40; 18TH,
Henry Ridgon, Forest Hill, $40;
J 34th.. Walter Tucker, Forest Hill
$40; 35th, A. D. Short, Elkton $40;
37th, Frank Radebaugh. Baynum IS;
18th, John Hobson, Newark, Del IS
4Sth. G. F. Radebaugh, Baynum So.
Fifty prizes also were offered for
ten-ear exhibits of white corn and
out of this number Maryland grow
ers were awarded nine, valued at S75
S. j. Galbreath of Street, Hartford
County, led the local exhibitors in
this class BY placing in 23rd for
prize of SIS. Other winners were:
27th-James Galbreath, Street, $40;
Goth A Hartenstine, Principle
Furnace, $40; 33rd, E. B. Milbourn,
Elkton, $40; 35th-Joseph Hornber-
ger Elkton, SO; 37th-W. R. Har-
vey. Corbett, SIS; 18th, Charles Glib
son, Principle Furnace, SIS; 49th-
John Lippincott, Clora. SIS; 50th-
Roy Thomas Darlington. SIS.
In the single-ear class which car
ried total of twenty-three awards,
Maryland growers won five amount
ing to SIS each. Leading the Mary
land growers was Wilson Heaps, of
Fylesville, in seventh place. The
other winners We're: 17th-Edwin
Caudill Forest Hill; 19th--G P.
Radebaugh, Bynum; 21st = James
Galbreath, Street; 22nd-Mrs. G. B.
Rigdon. Forest Hill.
All the Maryland samples which
won premiums at the International
are to be displayed as feature of
the State Corn Show to be held at
Frederick, January 10 to II, in con-
nection with the annual meeting of
the Maryland Agricultural Society,
il was announced today by Mr.. Metz
ger. They will not be in competi- |
ton with other exhibits produced in
the state, however.
. What could be better than a foun-