The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-11-02
PAGE EIGHT

The Northwest's first opportunity
TO see the worlds fastest corn husk-
.ers m In Will come this fall on
Noyembcl ) when the Midwest Corn
LusAIAs -,D-as. is held in Minneso-
IA.
This contest will be held in Fart
bault County, on the farm of Walter
Springer, four miles west of Winnie
bago. 1he Faribault County Farm
Bureau VIII be the local host, COOP
Grating with THE FARMER, st. Paul
farm publication, and associated
Standard rarm Papers which spon-
sor this contest each year.
The Midwest Corn Husking Con-
test is in reality national contest
as it embraces now all the principal
corn growing states, and the contest
this year at Winnebago will bring to-
gether the champions and near cham
pions of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ne
braska, Missouri, Kansas, Minnesota
and South Dakota.
The decision of the Standard Farm
Papers to hold the Midwest contest
this year in Minnesota on invitation
OF THE FARMER definitely recog-
nizes Minnesota as an important corn
state. Minnesota last year ranked
fifth in corn production in the Unit
ed States, and its corn was worth al
most as much as the states wheat and
oats crops combined.
Preceding the Midwest contest at
Winnebago will come the Northwest
contest, sponsored by THE FARM
er, and several local and county con-
tests. This contest is open to any
husker living in Minnesota, North
Dakota or South Dakota.
The Northwest contest will be held
in Nicollet County on November i,
on the farm of A. j. Nourie, four
miles south of Nicollet and about
nine miles west of North Mankato
on Trunk Highway No. z.
The Nicollet County Farm Bureau,
r. A. Fischer, county agent, and the
farmers of Belgrade Township, will
be the hosts to the Northwest con-
test. The two winners in this contest
will be eligible to enter the Midwest
contest two days later at Winnebago.
Several local and county contests
are being arranged, and most of these
will be held during the next 10 days.
Huskers who want to make sure of
getting into the Northwest contest
should help in getting up local con-
tests, as local champions will be Civ
en- preference in choosing the IL men
who will be admitted to the North
west contest. Those who can not get
into local contest may furnish trial
records on blanks which will be mail
cd by THE FARMER upon request.
The holding OF these important
contests in Minnesota this year mean
that corn huslling enthusiasm will be
running very high by the time the
corn IS ready to husk. Our North
west huskers are more Interested
rhan before because of the fact that
chose who get into the Midwest con-
test this year will he husking in corn
of their own kind.
There is just one prize in the Mid
west contest, 500 in cash to the
champion. This prize as well as the
expenses of all state champions to
the Midwest contest are pooled and
paid by the Standard Farm Papers
sponsoring the contest which are THE
FARMER, WallsceS Farmer of Iowa,
Prairie Farmer Of Illinois and Indi-
ana, the Missouri Ruralist, the Kan
sas Farmer, and the Nebraska Farm
er. The same rules are used in all
local and state cootests that are US
ed in the Midwest contest, and each
paper mentioned sponsors the state
contests in its territory where the
prizes are the same as THE FARM
Err is offering in the Northwest con-