Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1919 — SELECT SEED CORN NOW. [ARTICLE]

SELECT SEED CORN NOW.

Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 4.—ln a letter to members of the Indiana Corn Growers’ association today, Secretary G. I. Christie suggests that each one should select corn now not only for the annual state show in, January but to compete in the national hay and grain show which will be held at Chicago November 29 to December 6 in connection with the Livestock Exposition. rFor a number of years growers “fromlndiana -have won -thei_high-, pst. honors —at the —nationalcorn shows, only last year P. J. Lux, of Shelby county, winning again. This year Hoosiers will have to strive harder than ever because of a rearrangement of the corn growing (listricts. lowans have always been the closest competitors of Indiana growers and by the changing of the districts, only northern Indiana is in No. 3, the district with lowa. This will make the task harder than ever and an extra effort will have to be put forth by Hoosiers to win the honors this year. In addition io the corn samples, which must consist of twenty ears each of white and yellow corn, prizes will be given for the best half bushels of wheat, oats, oarley and rye and for the three classes of >iay, red clover, alfalfa and timothy. The first premium in each class ranges from SSO to SIOO, with 15 to 25 premiums for each class. The Chicago board of trade has offered $10,000.00 in cash for tjais exposition alone. The letter to the corn growers al--so—announces that work . will be 'yields of the men who were in the five-acre corn growing contest this year. Final figures show that 1,150 men in fifty-five counties of the state are competing this year, and a great majority of them have remained in tq, the finish, despite the extreme# dry weather in many parts of the state. It is hoped now that a number .of corn growers will show a yield of 100 'bushels or more per acre and receive the gold medal given by the association for this achievement. Farmers growing between 85 and 100 bushels will receive a silver medal and those who produce 75 to 'BS bushels will be given bronze medals. It is expected that a total of several hundred will be awarded this year. . * \ ' » Mr. and Mrs. William Keilman returned to their home in Hammond Sunday evening after a visit here with her parents, Mr. and _Mrs. Andrew Kahler.