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Show Colorado Gets Wheat ECing for Fourth Time in Last 5 Years By VV. J. DRYDEN WNU Farm Editor. While a new United States Wheat King has been crowned, the state of Colorado still retains its place as the home of quality wheat. For the fourth time in five years, the Pills-bury Pills-bury award has been given to a wheat producer of Colorado. v ! F 1 i : ' ' ' ' ' H f . , , ' : j ! A , i RUNNER-UP ... for title of "wheat king" went to R. E. Condon, Con-don, Plattcville, Colo. This is the second year since 1941 that a Col- 1 orado grain grower won the national na-tional reserve award. His hard red spring wheat weighed 4.5 pounds per bushel more than the standard weight of wheat. Luther F. Givens, 43, Sterling, Colo., walked off with first honors at the wheat contest held recently 1 at Chicago. His entry was Wichita wheat, a strain developed at the agricultural experiment station, University of Colorado. The Wichita wheat entered in the contest by Givens Giv-ens was of the hard red winter variety va-riety which had a test weight of 64.8 pounds. The standard weight of a bushel of wheat is 60 pounds. The contest, held under the direction direc-tion of the International Crop Improvement Im-provement association and the various vari-ous state agricultural experiment stations and colleges, had for its judges Prof. R. F. Crim, University Univer-sity of Minnesota; Prof. J. C. Hack-leman, Hack-leman, University of Illinois; and Prof. A. L. Clapp, Kansas State agriculture college. Prof. K. E. Eeeson of Purdue university represented repre-sented the co-operating organizations. organiza-tions. Givens operates an 80-acre farm, raises hay, sugar beets, Hereford cattle and hogs. His wife, Lena, raises chickens. They have no children. chil-dren. Both -are equestrians, having fine saddle horses, and are leaders in a Sterling saddle club. Some 15 acres of the farm was devoted to the development of the Wichita strain of wheat. Second place in the national contest con-test went to R. E. Condon, Platte-ville, Platte-ville, Colo., with hard red spring wheat with a test weight of 64.5 pounds per bushel, winning the national na-tional reserve award. Other winners include D. F. Sak-uth, Sak-uth, Yuba City, Calif., for raising the best hard white wheat; Ralph Osborn, Culver, Ind., for best spring red wheat; Appleton Brothers, Can-andaigua, Can-andaigua, N. Y., best soft white wheat; and William Frazen, Mapes, N. D. The contest was established in 1941. Since that time Colorado wheat has four times taken the national na-tional honors, while Montana grain once has scored first. Former Colorado Colo-rado winners were George Hof-mann, Hof-mann, Iliff; Leo Lindstrom, Sterling; Ster-ling; and Jesse Powers, Henderson. The Montana winner was L. E. Peterson, Victoria, the winner in 1941. vv7 ; . WHEAT KING ... of the United States. Luther F. Givens is shown holding a sheaf of Wichita wheat, with a sample of the threshed grain nearby. The trophy he won in the competition Is also shown. The winning wheat was produce on his 80-acre farm southeast of Sterling, Logan county, Colorado. |