The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-08-10
$4,000 IN PRIZES - -1spt
FOR DRY LAND WHEAT

NOIJLeIH AdllWdys NC1tiiSLn dcluC
Railway and the Milwaukee Railway
Of $1,000 cash to be offered as prizes
to the winners in the statewide sum
mer tillage contest, the Montana De-
velopment Association announces the
completion of a twelve thousand dol
lar premium list, to be distributed
among the four thousand competi-
tors and to go to the producers of the
largest yields of standard winter
or spring wheat on a measured 20
acres of land.
A wire from J.. G. Woodwork,
Vice President of the Northern Pa
cifc that the Northern
Pacific will give $500 in cash prizes
to the winners in the Southern Dis
trict. which includes towns along the
Northern Pacific from Wibaux to
Dillon. A telegram from w. P. Ken
ney, Vice President of the Great
Northern Railway, announces a
similar amount to be given the win
ners in the Northern District, which
includes localities along the Great
Northern Railway from Plentywood
to Cut Bank. R. M. Calkins, Vice
President of the Milwaukee Rail
way, announces the offering of $500
cash, to be divided among the win
ners in the Central Montana District
in localities along the Milwaukee
Railway.
The Milwaukee Development As
ISOLATION $1,000 offered will be di-
vided into three parts, 1888 for each
District in the state.
Thirteen implement and machinery
houses have offered prizes. The Mo-
line Plow Co., of Moline, Ills, offers
8 Best Ever Sulky Plows, valued at
$50 each. The Sharpless Separator
Co., West Chester, Pa, offers 8 No. 4
Sharpless S%eparators, valued at $50
each. Fairbanks-Morse Co., of Chi
cago, offer 3 IL HIP. z Type Kero-
sene Engines, valued at $50 each.
The John Deere Plow Works, Mime
apolis, Mimi, offers 3 X. c. Corn
Cultivators, valued, at $40 each.
Oliver Chilled Plow Works, South
Bend, Ind, offers 3 loft. Double
Action Tandem Tractor Discs, val
ued at 1925 each. The Champion
Corporation, Hammond, Ind, offers
3 ooh Tillers, valued at 500 each.
The La Crosse Plow Works, La
Crosse, Wis, offers 3 Assertion Har-
rows, valued at $55 each. Bateman
& Companies, Inc, Greenloch, N. j.,
offers 3 17h-f 1T. Acme Harrows,
valued at $50 each and 8 Iron Age
2-Row Riding Corn Cultivators, val
ued at $85 each. The Rock Island
Pillow Works, Rock Island, Ills, offers
8 SIT. Horse Drawn Tandem Non
ANA Discs, valued at $50 each. The
H. Earl Clack Co., of Havre, Mont,
offers 3 Clack Culti-Weeders valued
at $50 each. Observation-Disclosures
Implement Co., Minneapolis, Mimi,
offers 3 Gang Disc Flows, valued at
S11O each. The international Har-
vester Co., of Chicago, Ill, offers 3
international Field Cultivators, 7h
foot wide, valued at $11O each.
Besides the prizes above enumerat-
ed, $4,000 in prizes have been offered
by business men members of summer
clubs in various localities in
the state, to be competed for locally
only. This makes a total of approx
mately $4,000 to be given away to
the winners of the contest.
This huge contest, covering all the
dry land sections of the state, COM
prises II summer tillage clubs, 44O0
members c~ultivating 100000 acres of
land in the state according to the
approved methods Of summer
For competition purposes the state
has been divided into three parts, the
Northern district, the Central district
and the Southern district and mem
bers of the clubs will compete only
members of the clubs in the
district. The basis of competi-
ton will be the highest yield of
standard winter or spring wheat pro
duced on a measured 20 acres Of
Only members of the summer
tillage clubs are eligible to compete
and only those who handle their land
in accordance with the rules laid
down by summer tillage authorities
and distributed by the Montana De-
velopment Association a win.
will be determined by affida-
Wits of the threshermen, witnesses
and the certifcation of the officers
of the summer tillage clubs.
Careful records are being kept by
the Montana Development Associa-
ton of the operations in all sections
the state and with the propitious
season now under way for storing
moisture for next years crop, some
sensational results are expected.
The Montana Development Assoc
is making plans to advertise
to the whole country the results of
his huoe Agricultural contest the