Show GOLD MEDAL FOR OATS jesse bailey ot ok monticello ufah pro flee fave acres of piu chich ave aged bushels bushe ls sac ier I er r asre the largest yield in tile the united sta as s in I 1 1919 he gets the farm P irm journal gold medal and n casi cash as prizes tor for this crot brou the second prize for or bats goes to se new mexico and clr 0 IX ii d to any ons im thought cr ved hoped that the war would end in 1918 the ahti farm journal of philadelphia delp hla announced a great national crop contest covering six crops which would help to win the war am anti to feed and clothe the world alter after it was waa won the crops crops are corn oats oais wheat pota potatoes ices alfalfa and cotton there are gold silver and bronze medals tor for the best three yields ot of each pt the six crops and the winner vianer winners ners s receive 1000 and in cash for or the best three yields of all six crops the fields had to be at least five acres widespread interest was aroused in this national contest several ot of the states entering their own state contests as part and parcel ot of this larger one state stale experiment stations and extension departments county agents farm bureaus banks and other lons interested in agriculture boosted the contest from maine to california and by the way both maine and an 1 california captured some of the prizes utah gets the first prize tor for oats bats on non irrigated land a record of 0 which she may well be proud some of the people in tile tho northwest who thought they had bad n 1 mortgage on the gold medal and 1000 prize for oats are going to have a chance to think things over one doctor says whiskey is an antidote for flu while another asserts that it aggravates that disease the layman picks his doctor according to his thirst |