Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1912 — The WORLD'S MOST PERFECT EAR of CORN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WORLD'S MOST PERFECT EAR of CORN

“Just a countryman—that’s all,” is the way the grower of this remarkable ear of. corn, Mr. Fied C. Palin, styles himself. . Though he is admitted" to be, pne of the leading corn experts in the country—one whose services are? greatly in demand as a judge of corn exhibits, Mr. Palin asks for no greater honor or distinction than to be known as a plain Hoosier farmer, and while he openly professes a reasonable pride in the achievement of growing the famous ear of corn which was adjudged the most perfect ever grown, it is without a shadow -of ostentation.

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ly merit the title, “The Man who Knows Corn.’? But that s not all of Palin’s story. He tells it willingly, though modestly. for he knows that his story whenever told is a source of great encouragement of the thousands of farmers who never had a better chance than he ■ had himself, Palin was born and brought up on a farm near Newtown, Ind. He has never owned a foot of farm land in his life, and the 360-aore farm on which the champion ear of corn which won the Kellogg Trophy was grown is a rented farm. Mr. Palin’s real experience as a