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Show Cobrado Colorado Gets Cets Wheat KSrag King for forFourth forFourth Fourth Time in Last 5 Years ( ) By ByW W J DRYDENW'ltJ DRYDEN DRYDENWNC WNC W'ltJ WltJ ' Firm Farm E41tQrWhIle Edtti E41tQr EdttiWhile * While a new United Umted States Wheat King Kmg has been crowned crownedthe crownedthe the state of Colorado still retains retams its place as the home of ofquaht ofquality quaht , } wheat For the fourth time in m five years , the PlIls PlIlsbury Pillsbury bury award has been given to a wheat producer of Colorado Luther Luther F Givens 43 Sterling < : < Colo walked off with first honors honorsat honorsat at the wheat contest held recently recentlyat at Chicago Clucago His entry was WIchIta WIchItawheat Wichitawheat wheat a strain stram developed at the theagricultural theagricultural agricultural experiment statIon statIonUniversIty stationUniversity UniversIty of Colorado The WIchita WIchitawheat Wichitawheat wheat entered In the conte content t by GIV GIVens Givens ens was of the hard red winter wmter v\riety v riety V'l Vl V'lriety ' \ riety which wluch had a test weight ot of64 64 8 pounds The standard weightof weight of a bushel bushcl ofheat of wheat \\heat heat \ \ is 60 pounds poundsi Ihe 1 ' he contest held under the dlree direcj dlreet t on of the Internal Inlernat onal anal Crop 1m 1mI 1mprovement Iml provement association and the van vanous vanous I ous state agricultural agncultural expenment expenmentstations experimentstations stations and colleges coUeges had tor for Its ItsJudges itsjudges Judges Prof R F Cnm Crlm Univer UniverIs Univers ty of Minnesota Mmnesota Prof J C Hack Hackleman Hackleman Is leman University Umverslty of 111 I11 nois nOls and andI andProf andProf Prof A L Clapp Kansas hansas State Stateagnculture Stateagriculture I agnculture college co11ege Prof K E EBeeson EBeeson Beeson of Purdue university repre represented represented sented the co operating organ za zations zatlons zatlonsG tions tionsG G vens operates an 80 acre filrm filrmraises farmraises raises hay sugar beets Hereford Herefordcattle Herefordcattle cattle and hogs His wife Lena LenaraIses Lenaraises raIses chickens They have no chll chlldren children dren Both are equestrians equestnms : having havingfine havingfine fine saddle horses and are leaders > in a Sterl Storing ng saddle club Some 15 15acres 15acres acres of the farm was devoted to tothe tothe the development of the WichIta WichItastrain Wichitastrain strain of v . wheat wheatSecond heat Second place in m the national con contest contest test went to R E Condon Platte Plattev PlatteI v lie Colo with hard red spring springwhE'at springwheat I whE'at whEat ' with a test weight of 645 645pounds 645pounds pounds per bushel winn Wlnn ng the na nabonal national bonal reserve award awardOther Other \ winners Inners include D F Salt Saltuth Sakuth uth Yuba City Calif Cal1f tor for raising raisingtht raisingthe tht ! best hard white wheat Ralph RalphOsborn RalphOsborn Osborn Culver Ind for best spring springred springred red wheat Appleton Brothers Can Canandalgua Canandaigua andalgua N Y best soil soft white whitewheat whitewheat wheat and William WIlham Frazen Mapes MapesN N D DThe The contest was established in in1941 1941 S nee nce that time Colorado Coloradowheat Coloradowheat wheat has four times taken the na natlonal national tlonal honors " , while hlle Montana grain grainonce grain.once grainonce . once has scored first Former Colo Colorado Colorado rado winners were George Hof Hofmann Hotmann mann Iliff Leo I Ilndstrom Indstrom Ster Sterling Sterling ling and Jesse Powers Henderson HendersonThe HendersonThe The Montana winner was L E EPeterson EPeterson Peterson Victoria the winner in in1941 1941 > ' WIIEAT KI"G KIG " of the United States Luther F Givens Is shown shownboldmg boldmg a sheaf of Wichita wheat with a sample of the tbresbed tbresbedgrain grain nearby The trophy be won In the competItIon is also shown shownThe The winnlDg wheat was producea on his 80 acre farm southeast of ofSterling Sterling Logan county Colorado RU 'NCR-UP 'NCR NCR UP ' - for htle of ofwhea whea kmg went to It C Con Condon don PlattcvilIe Colo This is the thesecond second year smce 1941 that a Col Colorado orado grain grower won the na- na nahonal - honal reserve award Ills hard hardred red spnng wheat wClghed 4 5 5pounds pounds per bushel more than the thestandard standard weight of wheat |
