The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-12-13
MAN
is OATS KING
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He was given the crown by prox.
while another Smith, c. Edison, O
| Corvallis. Mont. was made re
serve wheat champion.
Ten huge and perfectly match
| ed ears of white corr brough
the mythical rule of the middle
vests great corn empire to L. NJ
= Vogler. Hope. Ind, who attribute;
his success to "carefulness."
Hope, who is 45 years old
started selecting his prize winning
corn when he went into the
fields this fall to do his husking.
Every time he came across an
extra good ear, he tossed it into
a box. He then selected the ten
best of the lot and brought them
here.
c. J.. Gustafson, Victor, Mont,
retained the oats king title he
won last year with his ~pluperfect
exhibit of breakfast food.
Wilson's miles City, entry,
certified grown Grimm seed, ar
rived late and just got under the
wire. L. E. Peterson of Victor
finished ninth, and Sam Jannshen
of Coalwood, Custer county, goth
in alfalfa seed.
Ravalli county retains the pur-
pie as the greatest barley and
rye producing section of the Unit
ed States and Canada. Exhibitors
from the Bitter Root valley took
the bulk of the awards in these
classes, including the sweepstakes
for all barley classes shown. The
awards follow:
Six-RoWed Barley
Six-rowed barley-L. E. Peter
son, Victor, first and grand
championship; C. Edison Smith,
Corvallis, second; C. l. Gustafson,
Victor, third; Peter Erickson;
sixth; Billings Polytechnic farm,
Billings, eighth.
Two-rowed barley-L. E. Peter
son, second; c. l.. Gustafson,
third; j. E. Pemberton, Victor,
fifth; Clarence Brown, Victor,
seventh; Mrs. Cory Lyons, Ballan-
tine. Yellowstone county, ninth;
c. Edison Smith, tenth; A. M. RE
woldt, Victor, twelfth.
Trebi barley-C. Edison Smith,
first; L. E. Peterson, second; G,
/. Gustafson, third; C. M. Treeca,
Victor, fourth; John Hoff, Jr.,
Woodside, Ravalli county, fifth;
M. S. Bailey, Victor, sixth; Floyd
Spar, Roberts, Carbon county,
ninth.
Any other variety barley E.
Peterson, first; c. Edison Smith,
second; John Hoff, Jr, third; Gus
Carlson, Belgrade, fourth; Oar
lington Brothers, Three Forks,
fifth; Clarence Brown, sixth.
Rye-Floyd Sparr, Roberts, Car
bon county, first and sweep
stakes; Sam Spar, Roberts, sec
ond; c. Edison Smith, fourth; L.
E. Peterson, fifth; Clarence
Brown, Victor, sixth; Tom Mari
got, Red Lodge, seventh; c. l.
Gustafson, eighth; T. H. Busted,
18th.
Cleo Wright of Laurel, Mont,
second in the All club win
dow treatment" congress. Mon
tana won 10th in the cotton dress
contest.
Iowa Winners
Iowa's farm youth walked off
with the lions share Of honors
at the International Livestock Sat
urday November 80. They won
five blue ribbons and the only
championship awarded in the jun
Tor livestock raising contests
overshadowed the other
events Of the days program.
Waldo Mommsen of Miles, Ia,
IN 1S.year-old All club worker
ed the Iowa parade by exhibiting
he champion baby beef Of the
show, an Aberdeen Angus year
ing, which previously had won
The blue ribbon for it's class.
Stockmen recalled that the grand
champion of the entire stock show
.ast year was a baby beef cham
pion which had been exhibited
BY an Iowa farm boy and were
wondering Saturday night if his I
DRY was to repeat itself.
Mommsen, one of 10 children
his champion Angus with
money he had earned in club
work. He paid Is cents per pound
or it when it weighed $50 pounds.
It now weighs 1900. He raised
t to championship calibre on a
mixed diet of corn, oats, clover I
md alfalfa. e
The SCI champion baby
'eef, runner-up to Mommsen's
vas exhibited by Marcel link of
Wis. g
The other Iowa farm youths =
Tho earned blue ribbons were
Iarold Hassler of Manning. Ia;
Eugene Alexander of Indianola, r
nd Emma Goecke of State Cent Il
r. Emma, sister of Clarence II
oecke who won the grand cham e.
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