Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1918 — Exhibits At Poultry And Corn Show The Best Ever [ARTICLE]

Exhibits At Poultry And Corn Show The Best Ever

The annual Jasper County Poultry and Corn -Show opened auspiciously Monday and despite the unfavorable weather exhibits is being well attended. From the quality of the exhibits* the show promises to be the best ever held. Both the poultry and corn exhibits are of very high quality and dissipate the reports that the standard of Jasper county’s poultry and corn this year is so much below. that of previous years. Of course, the -exhibitors naturally put their best produce on display at a show of this kind in the hope that their exhibits will be better than those pf their neighbors. But if the exhibits are any criterion to go by, the general run of the farm produce in Jasper county this year surely is not as poor as reports have it,' and if it had not been for. the killing frosts, the corp production of the county would have undoubtedly surpassed that of all previous years. A feature which should be of. much interest during the remainder of the week is' the Farmers’ Engineering Short Course and display of agricultural machinery. Sessions will be held each forenoon and afternoon at the Gayety Airdome and should attract many farmers. Lectures by experts on farm machinery will also be given at these sessions.