Show colorado gets wheat king for fourth time m in last 5 years yea rs by W J DRYDEN 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 pillsbury award has been given to a wheat producer of colorado luther F givens 43 sterling colo walked off with first honors at the wheat contest hold held recently at chicago his entry was wichita wheat a strain developed at the agricultural experiment station university of colorado the wichita wheat entered tn in the contest by givens was of 0 the hard red winter variety which had a test weight of pounds the standard weight of a bushel of wheat is 60 pounds the contest held under the direction of the international crop improvement pro nent association and the various state agricultural experiment stations and colleges had tor for its judges prof R F crim ct m university of minnesota prof J C hackleman university of illinois and prof A L clapp kansas state agriculture college prof K E beeson of purdue university represented the operating cooperating co organizations givens given operates an 80 acre farm raises hay sugar beets hereford cattle and hogs bogs his wife lena raises chickens they have no children both are arc equestrians having fine saddle horses and are leaders in a sterling saddle club some som e 15 acres ot of the farm was devoted to the development of the wichita strain ot of wheat second place in the national contest went to R E condon platteville colo with hard red spring wheat with a test weight of pounds per bushel winning the national reserve award other winners include D F sak safe uth yuba city calif for raising the best hard white wheat ralph osborn culver ind for best spring red wheat appleton brothers can andai and algua gua N Y best soft white wheat and william frazen mapes N D the contest was established in 1841 1941 since that time colorado wheat has four times taken the national honors while montana grain once has scored first former colorado winners were george hofmann hermann leo lindstrom sterling and jsse jesse powers henderson the montana winner was L E peterson victoria the winner I 1 la in 1941 |