Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1912 — CORN SHOW SHOULD BE SEEN BY ALL [ARTICLE]

CORN SHOW SHOULD BE SEEN BY ALL

Exhibit at Armory Is a Fla* Oae and Shews Deep Interest by Farmers —Cera Bela* Scored. The corn show and bazaar which are being conducted at the armory by the members of St. Augustine’s Catholic church, is proving a fine success. Exhibits of com kept coming in all day Wednesday’and by evening there were 33 entries and several etill expected. The com is sleeted with greater care this year than it was a year ago, which shows that farmers are paying greater attention than they formerly did to a study of What constitutes a good ear of corn. Steve Kohley is In charge of the entries sad has carefully marked and displayed each exhibit.

Henry Paulus, who came from over near Morocco to Jasper county a year ago, locating on his farm a mile and a half west of town on the Tiver road, is one of the most intelligent farmers in the county and believes in applying the most up-to-date methods in every department of the farm. This year he has raised and sold a thousand dollar’s worth of hogs, fattening them largely from com raised on 26 acres and having considerable corn and a number of hogs left over. He has an exhibit of corn that will doubtless rank high in the scoring. Mr. Paulus believes in taking every precaution with seed corn and be has , used a rack system for some years and has found after some experimenting that for about 45 cents a rack that will hold six bushels of corn can be made and that It will earn its cost over and over again every year. He made one of these racks purposely to show at this corn show and it win be a good thing if every farmer in the country will see it and make one or more, according to the amount of seed corn he saves. The rack* consists of two lx4-indh, 8-foot boards, which are stood upright the width of an ordinary lath between them. They are marked off every 4% inches and a lath nailed at each mark, on each aide of the uprights. ‘A 2-inch piece is used as a base for each upright so that It will stand alone. Two laths are used as braces. The corn Is then laid in single rows across the laths. This gives .perfect air circulation about each ear and assures that there will •be no mold. While the row* can be made for 2 others with safety, Mr. Paulus has adopted the single rows. He has always met with great success In selling seed corn at a good price in the spring. His exhibit is a fine one of something like two bushels which he has in the rack. The butts and tips of each ear are splendidly filled. Mr. Paulus put these racks right in one bedroom at his home and they are never exposed to the weather. As a precaution against mice a small section of the uprights and braces are lined with tin. Prof. J. T. Montgomery, of Purdue, began scoring the corn this Thursday afternoon, and the corn wiH be on display all day Friday and Friday night. Several booths with fancy articles, dolls, fish ponds, lunch counter, and varioue things to interest and please are on band. The Foresters’ band ' has a section framed off and discourses music afternoon and evening. No admission is charged.