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THE RURAL NEW-YORKEH 
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REVIEWING A CORN SHOW. 
The New England corn exposition held 
at Boston November 20 to 24, was a suc¬ 
cessful show in many ways. As a show or 
attraction for the general public it was a 
failure, but for instruction and help to the 
corn grower it showed what can be done in 
New England in this line if proper care 
and study is put into the growing of field 
corn for grain. Massachusetts stood first 
in excellence and size of general exhibits, but 
Connecticut was a close second, and the 
States north of us, although handicapped by 
a shorter growing season, had samples of a 
crop they need not be ashamed of. 
Massachusetts captured her share ,of 
sweepstake prizes, and two of these, the 
best ear, and best 10 ears of eight-rowed 
flint were taken by the same grower, N. I. 
Bowditeh, of Middlesex County. This was 
noble corn, and deserved the honor of first 
place beyond a doubt. This corn had been 
carefully bred by the originator for a num¬ 
ber of years, and is grown exclusively by 
Mr. Bowditeh to supply a leading seed firm 
of Boston ; the stover is used as silage. In 
another article I will try to tell the history 
of this strain, and conditions under which 
it has been grown and is grown to-day. 
Some of this same seed is shipped out to 
the corn-growing sections west of the Missis¬ 
sippi River, which was news to me, as I 
did not know they raised any flint corn in 
the West. This show was strictly a field 
corn show; that is, corn grown for grain 
as the main object, although prizes for 
sweet and pop corn were offered. .Tust ex¬ 
hibits of two of these were on deck; they 
had no competition whatever. The sub¬ 
ject of silo corn was not touched at all, 
and this seems strange, as this is fully as 
important a crop in New England as the 
growing of corn for grain. 
The question of eight or 12-rowed varie¬ 
ties was largely discussed by visiting grow¬ 
ers. and the general verdict seemed to be, 
why grow 12 rows on one ear when you 
can got the same weight of shelled corn and 
less cob with, eight rows. The question 
sometimes comes up of what use is a corn 
show to general class of farmers of New 
England? Well, onr answer is this: While 
perhaps a very small percentage of actual 
growers or common farmers will or can at¬ 
tend an exhibit miles away from home, yet 
every single one who does attend takes 
home some new point, some new idea of 
system or way of doing things, or better 
still, several of the ideas, and he will 
distribute those more or less in his section, 
either by talk or example. He will also be 
watched - by his neighbors, who will copy 
from him any ideas they see him using 
which result in a better yield or easier 
mehod than they themselves use. In this 
and other ways good must come, and while 
some may think or say new ways are not 
as good as the old, you will see them come 
to the new way just as soon as they see 
their neighbor getting ahead of them by 
this practice. 
Each of the six States had a separate 
list of prizes to compete for, and from all 
of these the grand sweepstakes were taken ; 
in this wav each had a fair show and no 
favors. Class A had the largest number of 
entries and prizes; this was 10 ears each 
of eight-rowed flint, 10 inches or longer; 
eight-rowed flint, seven to l€f inches Ions;; 
12-rowed flint; best 10 ears white or yel¬ 
low dent; best 10 ears large sweet corn; 
best 10 ears small sweet corn, ami best 10 
ears of pop corn from each State, thus: 
Class A-l, Maine; Class A-2, New Hamp¬ 
shire ; Class A-3, Vermont; Class A-4, 
Massachusetts; Class A-5, Rhode Island; 
Class A-6. Connecticut; Class B-l, Maine; 
best ear eight-rowed flint, 10 inches; best 
eight-rowed flint, seven to 10 inches; best 
12-rowed flint; best white or yellow dent. 
Class B-2. same for New Hampshire; Class 
B-3, same for Vermont; Class B-4. same 
with addition of separate class of white and 
yellow dent, and also white flint. Class 
B-5, same for Rhode Island; Class B-6, 
same for Connecticut; Class C, Grange ex¬ 
hibits of 20 ears of flint, also of dent, 
from each State. There were only a few 
entries under this class. Class D, shelling 
out contest of best 40 pounds of corn on 
the ears to be shelled at the show and 
weighed ; this class took in all the States. 
State sweepstake prizes for best 10 ears of 
flint from each State and best 10 ears of 
dent from Massachusetts, Rhode Island and 
Connecticut. Class G-l and 2 for corn 
products was very weak, the only entries 
fur which were a few pans of cornbread^ or 
johnny-cake and corn gems or muffins, G-3, 
the best 40 pounds of cornmeal grown and 
ground in New England. This class had a 
fair lot of entries, and was of good quality. 
G-4, corn-husk doormats; these were few 
in number, but good in quality and design. 
Several fertilizer companies offered special 
prizes equal to amount of exposition prizes 
in many of the classes. 
Several special features were exhibits of 
sheaves of grains and grasses, which bad 
only a few entries; exhibits of work and 
instruction about special, classes offered by 
the several State agricultural colleges, also 
exhibits of various pests and parasites of 
same. The award of the Bowker potato 
prizes was made on Saturday: this was 
^fiOO divided into several prizes for largest 
yields of best quality table potatoes. The 
first went to D. A. Littlefield, of Penobscot 
Co., Me. ; $200 for yield of 545 bushels on 
an acre. Second to fS. K. Bnrdetl. Windsor 
Co., Vt. $100 for yield of 527 bushels. The 
other five all went to Maine. Massachu¬ 
setts is not in it on potatoes, bnt is all 
right on corn, and this should be onr spe¬ 
cialty much more than at present. It is 
and can he made one of onr best-paying 
crops, and every man who attended this 
show could not help going home with the 
idea in his mind to grow more and better 
corn in the future, and in many cases 
save many a dollar for farmers now spend¬ 
ing for Western grain. The good the spread 
of this idea alone will do will be reward 
enough, even if nothing else is gained by 
this show for its promoters. a. e. p, 
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