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1923: Show draws 90 exhibitors for growers of good corn

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Betty Mann, President, Rock County Historical Society

The following appeared in the Rock County Herald on December 21, 1923:
 
ROCK COUNTY CORN SHOW BIG SUCCESS
 
Exhibit Promoted by E. A. Brown Co. Draws Many Fine Displays from Growers of Good Corn
 
NINETY EXHIBITORS IN COMPETITION FOR PRIZES
 
Arthur Taubert, Henry Husen Win First in 10 Ear Classes; Roy Cummings, E. C. Riter In Singles
 
Arthur Taubert won first honors in the ten-ear class and Roy Cummings championship honors on single ear on yellow corn; Henry Husen first in the ten-ear class, and E. C. Riter championship on single ear in white corn at the E. A. Brown Co. corn show held in this city Friday and Saturday.
A showing of sixty-five ten-ear strings of corn, and twenty-five entries in the single ear class, constituted the exhibit. Uniformly splendid samples of both yellow and white varieties of corn were shown, and the prizes awarded aggregated $150.00.
The awards for yellow corn in the ten-ear string showing were, first prize, Mr. Taubert, $12.00; 2nd, Theodore Sievert, $10.00; 3rd, G. M. Opheim, $8.00; 4th, Ralph Dirkson, $6.00; 5th, Philip Ordung, $5.,00; 6th, H. P. Cook, $4.00; 7th, Ed Oakland, $3.00; 8th, Roy Cummings, $2.00; 9th, G. Kreps, $1.00. In the single ear yellow variety, five prizes were awarded: Mr. Cummings receiving the first prize of $8.00. The other prizes went to Richard Carlson, who received $6.00; H. P. Cook, $4.00; E. C. Riter, $2.00, and Logan Trunnell, $1.00.
In addition to the winning of Mr. Husen of $12.00 as first prize in the ten-ear class in the white corn, the second prize of $10.00 went to Hugo Moeller; 3rd, Gust N. Oldre, $8.00; 4th, E. H. Kiebach, $6.00; 5th , Severtson Bros., $5.00; 6th, I. W. McClure, $4.00; 7th, B. B. Fenstermaker, $3.00; 8th, Ted Tatge, $2.00; 9th, Wm. Speas, $1.00. Awards in the single ear championship white corn were as follows: 1st, E. C. Riter, $8.00; 2nd, G. J. Riter, $6.00; 3rd, Gust N. Oldre, $4.00; 4th, Hugo Moeller, $2.00; 5th Walter Meyer, $1.00.
W. L. Cavert, farm managing expert of University farm, judged the exhibits. From his examination of the samples, he found that corn in this section of the country had not reached as high a degree of maturity this year as in some former years, and contains a greater amount of moisture. For this reason he urges that all farmers give unusual attention next spring to the testing of their seed corn.
The prize-winning samples of corn at the show have been kept, and are at the office of county agent M. P. Roske. These will be entered with the Rock county booth exhibit at the state fair next fall should such exhibit be made. A committee of men from Rock county, interested in a movement of this kind, met last June to discuss the proposition. It was found then that although choice specimens of other grains and farm produce could be secured, the farmers had already disposed of their best corn by using it for seed. By retaining these prize-winning samples, this predicament will be eliminated next summer.
Donations to the Rock County Historical Society can be sent to the Rock County Historical Society, P.O. Box 741, Luverne, MN 56156.
Mann welcomes correspondence sent to mannmade@iw.net.

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