The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-09-12
CARBON EXHIBIT
DRAWS 3RD PLACE
AT MIDLAND FAIR

Al MlDLAND FAlN
SALTWATER COUNTY IS THE
SWEEPSTAKE WINNER. EX-
CELLENT DISPLAYS OF RYE,
WHEAT, BEANS AND PEAS
PILE UP CARBON'S POINTS.
Carbon countys score of 54.8 in
the Midland Empire Fair exhibition
at Billings last week placed her third
among the four sweepstake winners.
Saltwater county won first sweep
stake honors with a score of 1854;
Rosebud second, score 63.4 and Gal
latin county, 1928 first sweepstake
winner, scored 44.4 for fourth place.
Carbon county took second awards
in horticulture, Big Horn county,
Wyoming receiving first. Carbon
county received first, second and
third in hard red spring wheat; first
in six-row barley; first and third in
rye; first and second in buckwheat;
second and third in flax; first in su-
preme registered wheat seed; first,
second and third in smooth peas !;
first in wrinkled peas; first and sec
ond and fifth in Great Northern
beans; first in best selection of beans
by one exhibitor.
Carbon county also won first, Sec
ond and third in Alsike clover; first
and third in yellow sweet clover and
first and second in white sweet clo-
yer.
Quality and arrangement of
sheaf and threshed grains in the Car
bon county section as we'll as grass
es, vegetables, orchard crops and
general attractiveness of the booth,
prepared and supervised by G. w.
Conger and assistants O. ]. Salo,
William Graham, Jack Benson and F.
G. Pickering, were the subject of
much favorable comment by fair
crowds and judges.
Carbon County's winnings at the
Midland Empire Fair follow:
Threshed Grains
Hard winter wheat; fourth, Tom
Maryott, Red Lodge.
Varieties of hard spring wheat; first
Tom Maryott; second, Floyd Sparr,
Roberts; third, Sonny Sparr, Rob-
erts.
Six-row barley; first, Floyd Sparr.
Hulless barley; third Floyd Sparr
Rye; first, Sonny Sparr, third, Floyd
Sparr.
Buckwheat; first, Floyd Spar; sec
ond, Sonny Sparr.
Flax, second, Tom Maryott; third,
Sonny Spar.
Supreme wheat, seed; first, Mrs.
Charles McGeorge, Silesia.
Field Peas
Smooth peas; first, Tom Maryott;
second; Floyd Sparr; third, Bill
Graham, Fromberg.
Wrinkled peas; first, Floyd Sparr.
Field peas; first, Samuel Spar; sec
ond, Floyd Sparr.
Best collection peas; one exhibitor;
second, Floyd Sparr
Beans, colored; third, F. L.. Purcell,
HI Fromberg
Best collection beans, one exhibitor;
first, George Toothhacker, Beffry
Great Northern beans; first, M. An
do, Silesia; second, F. L. Purcell;
fifth, Earl Nelson, Fronlberg.
A.. m 1853 Il, Grasses ~ e. wa a
Alsike clover; first, Ed johnson, Red
Lodge; second, Floyd Spar; third,
Cooper & Son, Joliet
Yellow Sweet clover; first, Lee Gard,
second, Floyd Spar. a
White sweet clover; first, Lee Gard,
Belfry; third Samuel Spar
-.a Honey
Case of white comb honey; first, Lee
M Elliot, Boyd
49,. s. esss~a,s-S ss...4 s......i.,. a...ea.
Fruits
Cherries, Leo Smith, Fromberg
Standard cherries, Leo Smith
Burbank splums;t tM. 81 Garrett, Joliet
Wolf pluns, F. S. Putnam, Joliet
Walnuts, r. F. Chilcott, Fronbergi
Florence crabs, F. G. Pickering - oliet
Transcedent. crabs, r.. F. Chilcott-s
Martha crabs, f. G. Pickering
Minnetonka apples, F. G. Pickering,
E. D. Cooper, Joliet .''e
General Grant crabs, F. G. Pickering
Ben Davis apples, NJ. E. Garrett
Hibernal apples, w. J. Crismas, Jol
let
Jonathan apples, w, j. Crismas
Pears, E. D. Cooper, Joliet
Duchess apples F. &. Pickering
Charmoff apples, W. J. Crismas