WHEAT AND OATS

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 992, 6 January 1927, Page 7

WHEAT AND OATS

“THE WOULD’B CHAMPION.'’

What is described as the world championship in wheat and oats growing has been won by a Canadian of the northern fringe of the prairioSj Herman Trelle, of the Peace ver.

.Of German parentage, he has spent his life on; the Prairies, and was educated at “Alberta College and -the University, of that province. A noted athlete, with a good academic record ho enlisted, but was refused permission to serve. He went north to the Peace River and settled near Lake Saskatoon.

A student, he took every bulletin and pamphlet issued by the Federal and Provincial Departments of Agriculture, and profited by their teaching untiUhe attained his present success.

Chicago lived up to its record for disregard of law in the circumstances surrounding the award. Trelle hung round liis exhibit all day and practically most of. the night, prior to its being judged. On the day before the judging, lie discovered that the glass shield over his wheat had been broken, and inferior wheat distributed ainoung his sample. Last year’s winner was similarly treated, barley and flax seed being run through, liis exhibit, but he did not observe it un-, til too late, and. did not figure pi the prize lispi,* although cxperts stated that his wheat,, if left alone, would have been- awarded , second place. Trelle saj;s that his wheat was “doctored’’ during the period ,of fifteen minutes he was absent from it.