Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1905 — A MONSTER CORN SHOW FOR INDIANA [ARTICLE]

A MONSTER CORN SHOW FOR INDIANA

At a recent joint meeting of the committee of the Indiana Corn Growers Association and the t program committee of the Corn School it was unanimously decided to hold a corn show in connection with the fourth annual Corn School and Stockmen’s Convention at Purdue university next January. The object of the Association in getting up this corn show is to arouse a greater interest in corn improvement throughout the State. The educational features of such a show are obvious. Samples of the best corn from all over the state will be brought together where the hundreds of farmers who will be in attendance at the Corn School can study and compare them and learn where good types for use on their own farms can be secured. The exhibitors themselves will learn the \reak points of their corn and see wherein improv'ements can he made. It will be a great object lesson in the selection of good types of corn and will help many farmers towards secuiing 1 better seed. All entries will be tree and every farmer in the state is hereby invited to show a sample of his corn and enter the competition for honors and premiums. The state will be divided into several sections and handsome premiums will be offered in each. The exhibitors from each section will first compete against each other for premiums offered within their sec tion and the winners in the various sections will then compete in sweep - stakes classes.

It .is confidently expected that this will be the greatest corn show ever held in Indiana and that the interest aroused will do a great and far reaching work in the way of encouraging the production of better types and more profitable crops of corn. Standars of perfect on and sng gestions for the guidance of exhibitors in selecting their exhibits will be furnished upon application to Prof. A. T. Wiancko, Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., to whom all questions and correspondence concerning the corn show should be directed. Further particulars concerning the division of the State into sec tions, classifications of exhibits, premiums, etc., will be published in the near future. Intending exhibitors should begin at once to ipake their selections.