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J. A. Mason, won the Allee trophy, a $150 painting by Montgomery. At 

 the annual auction sale of this association something over $1,000 was 

 taken in for seed corn values. While no extraordinary prices were re- 

 ceived for any single ear exhibits, the grand champion single ear bring- 

 ing only $26, against $150 last year, the steady uniformity of prices given 

 for the large exhibits of seed corn was the feature which brought a steady 

 level of prices. The best 100 ears of corn were shown by Edson Bennett, 

 who last year exhibited the best 10 ears of corn, any variety. The best 

 50 ears of Legal Tender corn were shown by a son of D. B. Nims. In a 

 class of 90 students who took the examination for certificates as corn 

 judges, J. W. Coverdale of Elmwood was first. "The Wallaces' Farmer 

 Cup," for the best corn judging done by club of five, was awarded to the 

 Packwood Corn Club of Packwood. 



All the short course students assembled in the college chapel to hear 

 such men as Assistant Secretary Willet M. Hays of the United States 

 agricultural department, the noted Angus breeder, O. E. Bradfute, of Ce- 

 darville, Ohio; Mrs. Caroline M. Hunt of the University of Michigan, 

 Miss Jessie Field, the energetic and pushing county superintendent of 

 schools of Page county; Editor James Atkinson of the Des Moines Home- 

 stead; President Asa Turner of the Iowa Corn Growers' Association; J. C. 

 Simpson of the Iowa State Fair, Dean Waters of Missouri Agricultural 

 College, and Professor C. F. Curtiss talk on subjects in which all had a 

 mutual interest. These talks were full of inspiration and practical ex- 

 perience and the hearing of them is sure to redound to the promotion of 

 the highest ideals of farming and the country home. 



At the election of officers John Sundberg of Whiting, Iowa, was made 

 president; J. W. Coverdale, Elmwood, Iowa, vice president; B. W. Crossley, 

 Ames, Iowa,- secretary, and Fred McCulloch, Hartwick, Iowa, membership 

 secretary and treasurer. 



The ticket of vice presidents for the following year are: 



District 1. Geo. M. Allee, Newell. 



District 2. M. S. Nelson, Goldfield. 



District 3. A. E. Quaife, Ionia. ^ 



District 4. Paul C. Ta£f, Panora. 



District 5. C. O. Garrett, Mltchellville. 



District 6. L. C. Hutcheson, West Branch. 



District 7. F. H. Klopping, Neola. 



District 8. Fred Wooley, Garden Grove. ' 



District 9. W. A. Hooli, Paeliwood. 



Iowa won in the aggregate about $2,000 of the Armour and Rosenbaum 

 scholarships money offered by the 1907 International Live Stock Expo- 

 sition on its live stock exhibits and team judging work. Dean Curtiss 

 distributed this money to short course students in the form of six Armour 

 and one Rosenbaum scholarships based on their proficiency in judging 

 four classes of corn and eight of stock — two classes each of sheep, swine, 

 cattle and horses and one class each of the following varieties of corn, 

 Reid's Yellow Dent, Leaming Boone County White and Silver Mine. The 

 Armour scholarships, valued at $250 each, were awarded to Walter Cooper, 

 Knierim, age 19; H. B. Cornwell, Ankeny, age 19; Frank Sanders, 

 Hartley, age 19; B. C. Brown, Anamosa, age 17; Harry Steenboch, Peri- 

 sia, age 20, and Ray Gatewood, Packwood, age 18. The Rosenbaum 



