SEVENTH ANNUAL YEAE BOOK— PART III. 99 



The plans were not widely known until the past year. Former years 

 failed to bring out many responses. In the spring of 1905 the County 

 Experiment Station distributed a small amount of Reid's Yellow Dent 

 seed corn. The county superintendent and school teachers throughout the 

 county took an active interest, and fifty-eiglit boys and three girls 

 applied for corn and instructions as to the manner of planting, etc. 



Each contestant was to grow one-quarter of an acre (measured by 

 an appointed member of the Farmers' Institute committee). A blank 

 form with space for notes was distributed. Each was asked to keep a 

 record of the manner of fitting the land; what fertilizer, if any, applied; 

 when planted; how and what method (checked, drilled or planted by 

 hand); how many times and when harrowed and cultivated; date of first 

 killing frost; when harvested. 



The following table shows the result of the experiment of the sixteen 

 highest yields: 



Name and Address. Bu. per Acre. Price. 



Mart McCabe, Boyden 137.5 $40 . 00 



R. M. Emery, Carnes 130 30 . 00 



Arthur Weir, Boyden 128 .5 20 . 00 



Evert Edes, Boyden 128 15 . 00 



Matthew Weir, Boyden 127 .5 10 . 00 



Peter Mouw, Orange City 122 .5 5 . 00 



Earl Farringer, Ireton 100 3 . 00 



Lynn Folger, Alton 99 3.00 



Anglo Quinn, Hull 96 3 . 00 



Theo. Hemstra, Orange City 86 3.00 



Minnie De Boer, Alton 82 3.00 



Willie Vander Kool, Hull 82 1 . 00 



Floyd Helder, Inwood 78.5 1.00 



Bert Vander Schaaf, Hull 77.5 1.00 



Clarence Hawkins, Hull 77 1 . 00 



Samuel Kimmel, Sheldon 74 1 . 00 



Earl Farringer of Eagle township, ten best cars, received the suit case 

 as a special prize. 



Misses Minnie and Rosena De Boer of Alton each received $3.40 spe- 

 cial premiums. 



The Board of Trustees of the Iowa State College at their last meeting 

 voted to give a free short course scholarship to each regularly organized 

 Farmers' Institute in the State. 



The college has furnished stock and grain judges for over half the 

 county fairs of the State. This demand, which is greater than can be 

 met, has grown without solicitation and as a result of recognition of the 

 practical value of the college work along these lines. The young men 

 who do this work are not infallible in their judgment, nor are older 

 men; but the system has grown on its merits, and the same fairs are 

 sending for judges year after year. 



The Experiment Station bulletins reach practically 100,000 readers. 

 The Experiment Station staff is constantly employed in investigating 

 every disease, pest or problem threatening to in any way menace the 



