624 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



One hour was given for scoring and writing reasons for cuts (a 

 and b), and ten minutes was allowed for each of the four selections called 

 for in (c). 



This examination was designed to test the student's accuracy of 

 cuts on each element in the score card, ability to select the best ear in 

 samples given as well as his ability to clearly state reasons for the work 

 he had done. This examination was optional and all who made creditable 

 grades were presented with a corn judging certificate by the Iowa Corrt 

 Growers' Association, 



Nearly three hundred individuals took this test. One hundred and 

 fifty dollars worth of premiums were offered for meritorious work in corn 

 judging. The Farmers' Tribune gave a one hundred dollar trophy prize- 

 to the judging team of not less than three individuals that passed the 

 best examination. Nine corn clubs and farmers' institute teams en- 

 tered this contest, the Muscatine County Institute club winning the- 

 trophy. Mr. Fred Meinecke, of Forest City, Iowa, won the individual 

 sweepstakes prize in corn judging — one hundred dollars in products ot 

 the American Corn Product Company. 



THE CORN EXHIBITS. 



In connection with the corn school, the Iowa Corn Growers' Associa- 

 tion, held a corn exhibit. They offered three thousand dollars in pre- 

 miums, all prize winning corn to become the property of the Corn Grow- 

 ers' Association and to be entered by them in the State's exhibit at the- 

 Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. All prizes that may be won by 

 this corn at St. Louis to go to the original owner who entered the corrt 

 at the corn school. 



For this exhibit, the State was divided into three sections; northern^ 

 central and southern; each section was divided into three districts, mak- 

 ing nine districts for the State. 



The entries were divided into individual and club exhibits; each of 

 these into best single ear and best ten ear classes for each district. Each 

 section had its sweepstakes prize, and each class of entries a grand 

 sweepstakes prize for the State. Two features of this exhibit were quite 

 noticeable. First, the good quality of the corn entered. (Mr. C. A. 

 Rowe, of Jacksonville, 111., who judged the exhibit, pronounced it the fin- 

 est lot of corn he ever saw.) Second, the exhibit by clubs. The Monona 

 County Institute club sent in an exhibit of ninety samples, while nineteen 

 other corn and farmer institute clubs sent in very satisfactory exhibits. 

 Every county in the State was represented in one or more of the classes 

 of entries made. "The work in selecting this corn, the study of it at the- 

 corn school, the premiums earned, and especially the formation of the- 

 clubs for the study of corn, are going to result in much careful studj'- 

 and improvement of corn. These Hawkeye exhibitors mean business and 

 our State must look wlel to her corn laurels if she gets to wear them much 

 longer." Thus remarked an Illinois agricultural editor after inspecting: 

 the corn entered for premiums. 



The grand trophy prize for the best ear of corn was awarded to Mr. 

 D. L. Pascal, of DeWitt, who won with seventy-seven entries in his class. 



