Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1912 — FINE EXHIBIT OF CORN SAYS JUDGE [ARTICLE]

FINE EXHIBIT OF CORN SAYS JUDGE

Prof. Montgomery Was Warfn in His Praise of Jasper County Corn Show at Armory. The prizes at the Catholic com show at the armory were awarded as follows by Prof. J. T. Montgomery, of Purdue University, Thursday afternoon. Sweepstakes, to Henry Paulus, a silver cup, donated by the Catholic Order of Foresters. Also the first prize of sls. -' Second, Jesse Beeher, $lO. Third, Adam Nagle, $5. Fourth, Henry Paulus, $3. "" In the grading the fifth, sixth and seventh places went respectively to the Indian School, John Martin and Joe Nagle. Prof. Montgomery preluded his grading by a mighty good and helpful talk on corn culture, seed selection and the care of seed corn. During the time he was scoring the corn he kept up a continual talk, about the merits or denierits of the exhibits. After considerable examination he eliminated all but exhibits 4, 32, 25, 20, 2, 13, 22, 15 and 26. These were removed to another part of the hall And given a very minute examination. Grains were extracted from each and examined and not a thing escaped the careful scrutiny of the judge. Speaking of exhibit 32 he said: “This exhibit Is very good in general appearance, hut the grain is too small, there are too many, rows on the cobs of some ears and the tips are not good. There are two double tips, which, are undesirable in show corn and not a good thing to breed. There 4s some bad fault back of It.” Of No. 2 he said, “These ears are too thick for thfeir length.” As he reached the end of the exhibits in the eliminating list, after examining two kernels from each ear, he said, “I think I have never gone through an exhibit of com and found so high a seed value. I have not found a dead gfain in the ears I have examined.” Of ekhihit 4 he said, This corn shows excellent breeding, but some of it seems a little immature. The tips of the grain wither, break ofl in the eob or a bit of the cob clings to the grain as it pulls out. Both of these are faults occasioned by a little haste in plucking the ear. Another proof of imfnaturity is the faet that erfrh grain is slight ly blistered. Not enough Jo impair its fertility hut it detracts from the show quality.” After he had made his choice Prof. Montgomery said: "I wish to