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Show IDAHO LAD WINS PRIZE IN STATt ,Bov Farmer of Filer Wins in , Competition With World on Wheat i"llHUi. Der.fi.- Waltei Weaver. I a boy farmer, member of a farm bu- reau Junlpr club In Hler, l-iabo. won1 n,l op whito Bprlng wheat at tho thternatlonal Hay and praln show I here. In eom pel i t ion open to the world. The show, for which a 1X0,000 1 premium lial la posted, is held In con-1 nectidn with ie international Mva- StOCH expoNltlon, Nov. 'J7 io Dee. I. Car' Trwln. of Kimbrrley. Idaho. won third, anri L i. Durkey, of BuHVl 1 ri.i ho. won fourth, on white spring I .h. at. The variety In each of ihesoj three classes was Dlcklow. Firsl on alfaUa seed also was won 1 .. . m T II 11. .... . . f 1 r an inano tarmer. a. n. unu.u. 1 Kimberlgyi Other Idaho winnings were: Din-row Din-row Brothara. Twin Kalis, second 0,1 Alfalfa; H. k Wiley, Springfield i fourth on alfalfa; f. Peterson. Rock Creek, sixth on alfalfa. Mr. Hardin ( 'also won firai oq red olover seed and p t: N'ewton, of Fairfield, took , twelfth on Turkey Ue.1 wheat. TAKES 1 IHT PIA 1 B BOISB, Ida., le.-. . "That Idaho '100k rlcht places, including two flrstM 'and two seconds. In rhall seed competition com-petition at-'. ins; Hie world 't Ihe ln-Iternatlonal ln-Iternatlonal Hay and Oraln show at IMA., 1 . 1 . M a.A df innn.nT itlliriK", i'imi- mjii4. . .... ItreQuentb made by this office that I Idaho leo.ls the nation in production or high quality seeds." said C. i! v'd- Bon. assistant Held agronomist of the j university extension division ind dep-H( dep-H( state seed commissioner "Idaho seeds excel both In color and viability ;and art eager!? sought i ihe seed trade throughout the rountr- These winnings also lend a.hlii ior.a' 'significance to the apprOAOhing l.iaho I seed show, to be held In Nani! . Jan-uavv Jan-uavv 10 to 14, which. i i- axpected. I will be the larjrest seed rhow ever held ufst of the Mlsalaalppi. "Walter Weaver, wl. 1 WOP second on white spring wlv-at at Chicago, It 1 lad perhaps li years of c. who enrolled In a wheat plub at FHtr last year in the farm bureau junior OlUP 'work, and obtained :'o0 pounds of 1 pure nieklow seed from Curl P. Ir-win. Ir-win. He won first In the npn competition compe-tition a the Twin Falls county fslr. Land 'hen came lp Roise and won first I at the state fair, in open competition With '.! Idaho ser.l growers. PAVORIT1 Mm "i "PlCklOW wheal, which brought thCSS honors to Idaho. Is the fnvorite Irouthern Idaho variety on lrrlKatrd lands Credit for Its premier position belongs more to Mr. Irwin, who took third place at Chleaso. than to any other one man. Kor a considerable I period of years, atr. Irwin, on his farm at Klmberley, has been hand 'selecting each year enough heads to I plant an acre ,eed plot, and he has I bred up this variety until it yields an average of 10 burhels to the acre I more than the wheat ordinarily grown I on south Idaho farms. It has been I distributed throughout Twin Kails .county, where It was estimated to have added 11,000,000 to the value or last I year's yield, and It has been distributed distrib-uted quite generally throughout the I Irrigated sections of southern Idaho and has been sold in carload lots In ,the Kittitas vallej Washington, and 'in sections of Utah. ' "Idaho! Crimm alfalfa Is known land sought throughout the middle west and east. A representative of tate farm bureaus of several middle weuern ami eastern stiite makes pe- rlodlcnl visits to Idaho to buy this and other seeds. Alfalfa Of Ibis va-' va-' rlety survives hard winters which .freeze out less hardy varieties One ; of the impo riant ik. whl.-ii the Idaho Bged Growers' association has j et Itseir Is to protect Idaho's Crlmm 1 seed from misrepresentation and gdul-1 gdul-1 tcrntlon. "Thi- Turkey Red prize, taken by 11 ; Fairfield farmrr, br'.i'Ks new reoognl-I reoognl-I tlon to Camas county, a newly-devcl-1 oping, dry-land seed section.'' |