The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-12-28

the best 100 ears of corn at the State
Corn Show The Glasgow Courier of
Glasgow, Montana, offers $500
fountain pen for the sweepstakes All
corn exhibit There will be a banner
for the largest and best corn display
from any county in Montana. There
will also be banner for the northern
Montana county that has the best col
lective corn exhibit at the District
Corn Show. The Bintliff Manufacture
ing Company of Minneapolis, Mime
sofa, is giving 12'x16" framed pic
ture for the best exhibit of corn in
the District Show.
The Corn Show is only one of four
big attractions booked for Malta on
January 8, 10, IL, IL, 1929 The 18th
Annual State Utility Seed Show, 7th
Northern Montana Corn, Potato and
Pure Seed Show, and Northern Mon
tana Poultry Show will also be held
on the same dates. Over $1,000 in
prizes have been provided. The
grain and potato exhibits will be dis
played at the County Courthouse and
the poultry will be housed in the Call
building down town. January 9th is
entry day, and the three day program
following will be replete with interest
and value.
Northern Montana Poultry Show
Chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese
will be featured at the Northern Mon
tana Poultry Show which will be held
at Malta on January 9-10-11 and H.
1929. Poultry breeders from Hill
Valley, Blaine, Phillips, Roosevelt
Sheridan and Daniels counties have
been invited to enter exhibits. The
premium list provides for five hun
dred dollars in cash prizes besides q
large number of special prizes which
have been donated by various CONNER
cial firms, poultry breeders and others
interested in the poultry industry OF
northern Montana. j. d. Osmundson
licensed American Poultry Associa.
ton, judge of Richey, Montana, vii
make the awards.
Prizes ar eoffered for each stan
dard breed of chickens represented a
the show. One male and four females
will constitute pen. Cash prizes are
offered for both old and young pens
The male and one female from any
pen ma yalso be entered in the indi
vidual classes. This makes it possible
for an exhibitor to win first on younf
! pen, first on cockerel and first on pull
J let by entering one cockerel and fou
pullets. If an exhibitor wins frs
on the pen, first on male and first OF
5 female, he wins total of $500 casl
: and also has a chance at winning TIL
sweepstakes.
! Since turkeys have become yer!
important and profitable sideline OF
many Montana farms, some very at
: tractive cash and special prizes hav
: been provided for the turkey depart
ment. Cash prizes of SIS, $4, SO, S.
5 and 81 are offered for each of tn
1 following lots: Old tom, young tom
old hen, and young. hen. Brink
5 Sons, Inc, commission merchants o
S Chicago, offer $40 cash for the larges
a and best turkey display at the show
e The Northern Creamery Co., of Grea
t Falls offers one 8-gallon cream ca
: for the best young turkey hen. Pete
h Fox Sons Company, commission mel
n chants of Chicago, offers a specis
: prize of S. cash for the best youn
: turkey tom.
n The same cash prizes are offere
d for the best capons as are offered fo
e turkeys since capons are rapidly con
d ing to the front as holiday bir'
This year the prices for dressed C;
pons have been running from CSC /
; 44c at Chicago which certainly make
e capon production look very attractiv
e as a side line.
n J %. Ballard and Co., of Malon
N. Y. offers one pair of all wool, lace
h bottom breeches for the best pair
l. Baking Powder Co., of Chicago offers
2 young geese exhibited. The Calum,
is six 1-pound cans of Calumet Balin
r Powder for the best pair of youn
ducks and six 1-pound cans for Il
is best pair of old ducks. The Pacif
h Poultryman, Seattle, Wash, offer
l. one year subscription to the Pacif
at Poultryman for the best pen of chic
a. ems, and one year subscription for Il
It. best old pen. Skoolum Chik Hate
D; cries, Helena, Monta., offers: Fiji
) Utility Beauty White Leghorn oh
for the best pen of single comb viii
E. leghorns. F. A. Banderob, breeder
d, Silver Laced Wyandottes and Bla
Rhinelanders, of Huntley, Mont, W
ee give a SIS setting of Silver Laced w
u andotte Matching eggs and SO 81
t. ting of Rose Comb Black Rhinelan
n er Matching eggs for the best cocker
n and pullet of each breed.
a The Montana Cereal Co., of Billin
X offers: SO cash for the sweepstak
n cockerel; six packages of Cream
the West for each of the followin