The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19
N. SELKE PICKS 1881
BUSHELS TO WIN
COUNTY CONTEST

1t will be Norman Selke with
Redwood county fans at the dis
trict corn-husking contest on the
Ted Balko farm Tuesday.
The 29-year-old Milroy farm
err, third place winner in Red
wood events in 1897 and 1888,
shucked his way to the county
championship through the tall
Hybrid De Kalb on Gust Penske's
farm a mile north of Vesta last
Thursday afternoon. His net load
was 1851 bushels, 1.31 more than
Ted Balko husked to take the
same title last year.
Henry Schmidt of Walnut
Grove climbed from fifth place
last year to second in 1889 ear
picking ratings, with load of
1884 bushels and Peter Hagert of
Lamberton, county champion in
1887 and fourth place winner in
1888, was third with only a frac-
ton less, 25.45.
ut was the ideal day for
it," said AdOlph BalkO. prob
ably the cOunty'S best author
ity on corn husking.
He is the father of Herman and
Erwin Balko, sixth and eleventh
place winners in the county event
and of Ted, twice national and
six-time state shocking champion.
Ted will be starter on his own
farm on new highway II south
of Redwood Falls at the district
meet which opens at 1870 a. n.
Tuesday.
The five high men at the dis
trict here go to Amboy Thursday
to compete with ten other champs,
five from the district meet at New
Ulm and five from Spring Valleys
contest in the battle for the state
championship and right to enter
the national.
Selke's county championship is
his entry ticket to the district
meet where he must compete with
winners from Lincoln, Lyon, Rem
vile, Yellow Medicine, Lac Qui
Parle, Chippewa Pennington,
Traverse, Grant, Stevens, Pope,
Kandiyohi and Meeker.
Participants already select
ed at county Examinations in
clude: Richard Huth of Gran
tie Falls, Yellow Medicine,
who won with 228 bushels
and Grant Peterson of Rem
vile county whose record was
2O.8 bushels.
Otto Kodrea of Montevideo Will
represent Chippewa, Rudolph
Hanson of Lac Qui Parle and
August Shriver of Lincoln are
back again while Hiram Norland
CT Starbuck comes from Pope.
There'll be more officials than
huskers in the district meet. N.
H. Bovee will be timekeeper; G.
E. Goodyear, field marshal;
George Patton, weighmaster; Will
liam Poulsen, gleanings weigher;
j. r. Price, sample weigher; Wes-
ley Mckay, sample weigher
judge; Rex Miller, husk Weigher;
E. H. Bollum, husk weigher judge;
Stanley Breckenridge, captain of
referees; B. P Kelly, captain OF
WdSOliS dIlu lNClS,
Park in charge CT equipment and
M. 0. Hanson and Jesse Olson,
statisticians. The general COM
mittee includes Mr.. Park, F. =.
Mcnamara and Mr.. Kelly.
William T. Foley, associate
editor of The Farmer, will repre-
sent the publication which spon-
sorS the state contest. The dis
trict affair is under the auspices
of county Farm Bureau members
and Redwood Falls business men,
assisted by the Rural Youth.
Husking shirtless, Selke ratified
the bangboard at the rate OF
about one ear a second and eVe'l
before results were computed,
spectators had marked him as a
favorite. Bets were on Hagert, q
fast and furious husker, too, but
his gross load of 1,840 was 20
pounds under Selke'S.
Tabulation CT results appears
on page two.