Show fa un U A B CORN CO R N WINS W INS HI HIGHEST G HES T HONORS HO NORS AT international SHOW S S 1 I 1 OF 5 I 1 join john peterson raises champion ear over entries enides competed moab valley has again been accorded recognition as the banner corn producing section of the country bord ord was received monday that the moab corn exhibits at the international hay and grain show at chicago ill bad had been awarded four out of five possible places out of a total of over entries five prizes were awarded moab won four of these prizes taking first second fourth and fifth places the showing made by moab in competition with corn from ill all over river the nation is considered one of the most remarkable achievements ever won mon by a community at an international A show while it has long been grimn 1 that moab raises the best bert porn corn in utah the most ar dent boosters had not dared to assume that it could win vin first place in competition with mith the choicest products from all over the western tou country the reci rec ord earned at the international exposition at chicago conclusively proves that moab may justly lay claim to being the hone home of the champion ear of corn exhibit at the international hay and grain show consisted principally of alfalfa seed red clover barley dicklow and turkey red wheat corn com occupied but a minor position in the exhibit and the sta states teis entire exhibit of corn was secured at moab there were six utah corn entries all representing moab corn these six ix entries were thrown I 1 competition with over entries from over the country and out of only five prizes offered I 1 moab corn won four the individual winners were johp peterson first dale M second henry cole ole fourth and bert allred fifth all of moab third place was won von by an exhibitor from some other state 1 while it is 13 not known just what the local exhibitors W will ill receive in prizes it was origin atly announced that cash rs of 2500 would be paid in the corn department if this i is is the case then the ente enterprise ing moab farr farmers ners who sent in the exhibits should realize mr peterson as dinner vintner of first prize may re ceide iveas as much as 1000 in cash the utah exhibit at the show is tt in charge of professor george stew 14 agronomist agron at the utah expert went trient station and E E smith 0 of if i Bountiful seed expert they se sent nt ard vord to the utah state farm farria bureau sunday of the prizes won by the moab fanner farmers exhibits Exhibit a of corn eom were supplied bout three frecka ago by some ten cal farmers the ears tero nere s select 1 Q at husking huski nii time each farmer eav sav 1119 D about twenty of his choicest ears these were collected by J P milor who crated the st samples amples arid sent luem them to salt lake city where they were pone gone over by stewart he ha moab collation collection was culled down to w six entries for shipment to the chicago ghow gho w the wonderful achievement will I 1 doubtless result in a vast amount of putli publicity city for mab moab valley ind grand county it Is i likely that there ere WI be a heavy demand from r the country for mob moab corn for teed purposes aa as the purpose of the chicago show Is i to encourage ep courar the aing and election selection of better seed moab ah fanner in the future will no floutt be ablo able to sell their corn for sed led orphes nur or poSe poes a t fancy isey prices price duing dure the past year bert ailred allred one J of the m winners inners at chicago and who has been a prize winner at the last two to state fairs has sold a consider able quan quantity of corn to growers over the we wet tt at fancy price prices it is therefore not at all unlikely that a strong demand for moab corn will voll dellop a result of the showing made at chicago J P miller manager of the county fair and who ho had charee of the coun tys exhibits at the last two elate state fairs and bert allred his assistant at the 1925 state fair are deserving of a great deal of credit for showing at chicago these ho to men en urged aery local curn grower to send in an exhibit and visited nearly I 1 every farm form in the vaclev to look at I 1 the corn yields and to boost for a 1 large moab exhibit at the internal in terna dional show |