The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-07
RECORD IS SET
AT CORN SHOW
FOR EXHIBITS
Entries in State Exposition
Total 875, Shattering
Previous Marks
COUNTY TOTALS REVISED
Burleigh Standing in Cup Race
Boosted Program Ends
Event Saturday
COUNTY TOTALS REVISED

Marked by q greater number Of
exhibits than ever before, the fifth
annual North Dakota State Corn
Show came to an end here Saturday
night.
Exhibits entered in the show this
year totalled 875, as compared with
nearly 600 n 1926, and the general
quality of corn samples was much
higher, according to judges. Thirty
counties were represented by ex-
hibits.
County Standing Revised
Revised figures on the standing of
counties in the competition for the
state corn show county cup gave
Emmons county 1871; Burleigh,
1864: Sargent, IS; Morton, 63h;
Ransom, 62; Mclean, 43; Stark, II;
Richland, 15 and Sioux 151s, among
the top ranking counties.
In general, exhibits from the
southern part of the state, especially
the south Slope, were Of . better
quality than those from other Sec
tions Of the state. The samples from
the northern section of the state
were less uniform and not as large.
A program by group Of artistA
from New Salem-Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Mann and Mrs. Schmidt; an address
by H. d. Hughes, Ames, Ia, of the
Iowa state agricultural college, and
presentation Of 'The Ghosts Of Hilo, =
a Hawaiian operetta, with SO Indian
girls taking part, marked Saturday
evenings program.
Speaking on the future of sweet
clover in the corn belt, which, he
said, includes North Dakota, H. D..
Hughes, professor at Iowa state col
lege, Ames, Ia, said at the state
corn show Saturday night that the
agricultural value of clover in this
section is now = definitely estsh-
ished fact.
Sweet clover is everywhere looked
upon as Of particular value for pas
ture and soil Improvement, Profes.
sor Hughes said. In the western
half Of the corn belt, including Illi-
nois and westward, it is not gener-
ally regarded to have value for hay
production owing to the difficulty
in curing, he said, while in states
east Of Illifiois its value and use
as hay plant is mentioned in almost
every instance.
Valuable As Pasture
The paramount value Of sweet
clover is for pasture and for i'm
proving the fertility and physical
condition Of the soil, the speaker
averred.
In those sections Of the corn belt
where the soils are naturally sweet,
clover will be the leading pasture
crop, in the opinion of Professor
ats vigorous and rapid growth.
early starting in the spring and late
growing in the fall, it's hardness,
high nutritive value, ability to with
stand drought and only slight danger
from bloat, places it at the very head
OF the list Of pasture plants" he
said.
with the possible exception Of
alfalfa on fertile sails, no other
legume crop will furnish so much
nutritious pasture from early spring
until late fall ~ sweet clover when
it is properly handled. The fact
that it may Be pastured earlier in
the spring than many forage plants
and that it thrives throughout the
hot summer months when bluegrass
pasture is brown and dry, and con-
tinues green and succulent into the
late fall. even after heavy 3rosts,
makes it Z valuable addition to the
pastures on many farms.
Will Grow Almost Anywhere j
"Sweet clover has . very wide soil
adaptation in all respects, except as
regards the line content Of the soil.
It has been found TO grow on very
low, poorly drained soil. On the
other hand, sweet clover is fully
equal in drouth resistance to any
other legume. It will grow splen-
didly on heavy mulch and peat soils
loaded with organic matter, but on
the other hand it will grow on the
purest clay soil with no organic
matter in It whatever. It will grow
on practically pure sand or efavel,
but again It will grow on tight COM
pact Sumbo." !"