Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1908 — CORN CONTEST. [ARTICLE]

CORN CONTEST.

Walker Tp. Boys Lead In Number of Exhibits. SEVENTY-FOUR EXHIBITS IN ALI m Which Walker Has Fourteen— Some Good Corn and Some Verjr Poor. The annual Jasper Couty Corn Contest, of corn grown by farmere’ boys of Jasper county, was held In connection with the Farmers Institute Tuesday. The corn was placed on exhibition in the county superintendent’s office Monday, and made a very nice display as a whole. There were 74 exhibits Tuesday forenoon, all the townships being represented except Gillam and Wheatfield, as follows: Barkley IS Marlon ...'. 6 Carpenter 2 Mllroy 4 Hanging Grove 9 Newton 9 Jordan * Walker 14 Kankakee S Wheatfield 1 Keener 1 Union 8 Each township gives cash prizes a t $5, $3 and $2 to the three best exhibits of 10 ears, and the township prize winners ente; the county contest for prizes 9 1 $6, $4 and $2. In the county contest an option is given of a week’s tuition and expenses, not exceeding $lO, to the “Purdue Short Course’’ at Purdue University. R. Wyatt, of Auburn, Ind., but the results were not made public in time for today’s Democrat. The girls' bread-making contest was also on yesterday, in the library room in the court house. There were a number of entries o t nice looking bread, but the awards had not been made at the time of making up the pages of this issue of The Democrat.