Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 47, DeMotte, Jasper County, 12 October 1939 — JUNIOR CORN HUSKING CONTEST HELD SATURDAY [ARTICLE]

JUNIOR CORN HUSKING CONTEST HELD SATURDAY

The district 20 Junior Corn Husking Contest, a sporting event for vocational agriculture students of Northwestern Indiana, was held on the Ennis Hall farm, located 6 miles northwest of Wheatfield, last Saturday, and was a good contest despite the slight dampening from a sudden shower. Dave Hannon, of the Morgan township high school, Porter county, won the contest and the right to represent the district in the state contest to be held Friday, Oct. 13, on a farm near Flora, Ind. Dave is 17 years old and a junior in high school. His teacher is John Boron. Dave had a good record, as he husked a net load of 709 pounds of corn in the 40-minute hulking period. Deductions were made for gleanings of marketable corn and for husks left on the corn. Other contestants and their records were as follows: Orville Martin, Kentland, 622.8 lbs. Frank McCarty, Brook, 622 lbs. Emerson Phebus, Lowell, 618.6 lb. Dick Hannon, Kouts, 611 lbs. Ralph Timm, Medaryville, 581.9 lb. Allen Hershman, Wheatfield, 515.5 lbs. Harold Hotler, Remington, 458.3 lbs. Harold Stiner, Crown Point, 399.9 lbs. ■ I . Prizes were awarded by the Pfister Hybrid Seed Corn Co. The contest was arranged by E. E. Clanin, chairman from Wheatfield, and Wm. B. Ely, vice-chairman from DeMotte, vocational agriculture instructors.