The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-11-13
BIG YIELD OF
CORN TOLD
VISITORS HERE
Many Fields of Corn From
Which Exhibits Were Taken
Made 40 to so Bushels
DEVELOP NEW CORN
Many Farmers Over the State
Found to be Experiment.
ing For Selves
DEVELOP NEW CORN

particularly in the development Of
early maturing corn, was being man.
ifest today by farmers and others
who visited the Second Annual
North Dakota State Corn Show, in
the exhibit room in the Annex Hotel
building, on East Broadway.
Reports were made by several ex-
hibitors of yields of corn running
from 40 to SO bushels an acre,
through careful selection Of seed and
proper cultivation, while others re-
ported that experiments they had
carried on in developing new kinds
of early maturing corn had proved
successful.
The excellence of the exhibits
proved surprise to all visitors at
the show, since the year 1924 had
been described as poor corn year
and reports of damage by frost had
been received. The exhibits, coming
as they do from 30 counties of the
state and all sections, emphasize
that the finest kind of corn can
be matured in North Dakota even
in an unfavorable year.
The number of farmers coming in
today, many of them from long dis
tances, to view the corn show, was
an indication of the intense interest
being manifested in the exhibits. It
is probable that the prize winning
exhibits will be entered in the In
ternational Hay and Grain Show, to
be held in Chicago beginning Novem-
Der 20.
q, The program at the Auditorium
this afternoon included an address
by Robert Wilson, of the U. S. Great
Plains Station, Mandan. Friday at
1880 p. m. at the Auditorium there
will be feature movie film, and an
address by DR.. H. L. Walster, dean
of the State Agricultural College,
whose subject will be Northern
Corn for Northern Climates" There
will be an institute program Satur-
day also.
Exhibits from 80 counties had
been unpacked and displayed on the
first day of the show yesterday,
with more in the mails to be enter
ed. The total number of exhibits
reached 454 late yesterday, about
equal to the number of last year,
and last years total will be exceed
ed.
Counties represented yesterday
were: Adams, Grant, Stark, Barnes.
Burleigh, Morton, Kiddcr, McHenry,
Sargent, Ransom, Richland, Wells.
Sioux, Cass, Emmons. Mclean. Nc
Kenzie, Hettingcr, Foster, Mcintosh,
Ward, Dickey, LaMoure, Mercer,
Sheridan, Logan, Pierce, Mountrail,
Golden Valley and Stutsman.
An exceptionally fine display was
shown by E. M. Granlund Of RAN
som county, who won the sweep
stakes prize for the best individual
ear of corn exhibited last year.
A visitor to the show remarked
that Ransom county won't be rep
resented because the corn all froze
out"
He was led to the exhibit of Mr..
Granlund and others from Ransom.
Corn on the stalk was exhibited by
Mr.. Granlund. The stalks were 10
feet high, ears 10 to l1h inches
long, of finest, hard quality; and
Mr.. Granlund reported his Mime
sofa No. 13 corn made so bushels
to the acre and pointed to other
corn that made 35 bushels to the
acre. He planted $50 acres of corn
and none of it was frosted, he said.
Mr.. Granlund displayed Minnesota
No. 13, Wisconsin Golden Glow and
other corn.
Booster Here
G. R. Montaney, whose postoffice
address is Kuhn but who farms in
Dickey county, is back at the show
this year. Mr.. Montaney wrote a
poem regarding the corn show last
year, which he had printed as a
booster effort.
Mr.. Montaney is displaying sew
eral corn samples, chiefly of corn
he calls Combination" and which
he says he evolved in five years of
effort. The corn this year, he said.
will make 40 bushels to the acre.
He had sent some seed to Mike
Hilscher and E. Sasse, living near
Bismarck, who planted it. The corn
of the latter two men is far better
than his, and ought to make so BUSH
els to the acre, he says.
Mr.. Montaney is an enthusiastic
corn grower.