Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-04-27
Special Premiums on Home Made
Monurac

Among the Special Premiums to be
awarded at the Annual Fair of the Cotton
States Mechanics and Agricultural Fair
Association, at Augusta, Ca, on the 3lst
October next, none will excite more in
terest among agriculturists than those OF
the Dickson Fertilizer Company, of that
city, forcrops made exclusively by Home
Made Manure. The premiums are for
Corn, Wheat, Oats, Sweet Potatoes, and
Pea Vine Hay, and the total amount IS
Ono Thousand Dollars.
Col. JAMES I. GARDINER, President Of
the Dickson Fertilizer Company, in sub
mitting his proposition to Mr.. E. II.
GRAY, the Secretary of the mechanics
and Agricultural Fair Association" says:
"The purpose of the Dickson Fertilizer
Company in offering these Premiums IS
in good faith to stimulate and encourage
real thrift and industry on the Farm, and
especially that branch of it which relates
to saving and utilizing the abundant ele-
ments of fertility which now 60 10 waste
absolutely, and are lost.
ave feel assured that by so doing, we
promote the general welfare OF the coun-
trv to an extent proportioned to the sue
cess of our efforts, and from when we
shall reap large benefits, both in our own
and al other branches of business. LII
has been found true, in older and more
thicklv settled countries, that q general
appreciation of the art of good tiliage
end high manuring has induced allke,
economy of manures at homo, and hperai
purchases from abroad"
Below we append the Premiums Of
fered:
The Dickson Fertilizer Company of
Augusta. Ga, offers the following Special
Premiums on Upland Crops, MADE ny
the nse of Home Manures alone.
The purpose of these Premiums is to
encourage the production of Provision
Crops. and to promote that department.
of farm economy and industry which
relates to the manufacture OF composts
and Manures at home.
CoRN.-lst-For the the best average
five acres. $300.00
WHEAT.-2d-For the best aver
age crop of Wheat on Uplands, ,oo ~
not less than five acres S20O.UO
Oats on five acres Uplands S3OO.OO
SWEET TPoTAToES.-4th-Fo the
best -'ield, per acre, Of Sweet
acres a ~, ;0 0iN NV ~ $4,000
PEA-VINE HAY.-5th-For the
best yield, per acre, OF Pea
Vine Hay, on not less than e,oo m
five acres, SloV.Vo
CoNDITIoNs.-lst. The competing crops
must be grown on Uplands that have not
been manured with any commercial
manure within three years.
Cd. The manures applied on the COM
peting crop shall be such as are entirely
homemade, with no touch or talnt OF
any bought element. Composts of cot
ton seed, muck, bones, etc., may be used,
however artifcially made, provided none
of the material is prepared Oft OF the
Farm, and no chemical or commercial
fertilizer used in making up.
Sd. The land and the crop shall be
measured and certified to in writing by
two disinterested and competent partles.
Specimens of each crop shall be eXhlbl-
ted, viz: one bushel or more OF corn
wheat and oats; two bushels OF potatoes,
and one bale of hay. Each competitor
shall state in writing, what sort OF ma
nuro was applied to his crop, and when
and how applied, and if compost was
used, how the same was made.
The Premiums will be awarded under
the auspices of tho Augusta Cotton States
Fair Association, at the annual Fair on
the 3lst day of October, 1871, by commit
tees appointed for the purpose:
| rIAMES n GARDINER
President Dickson Fertilizer Co.
Augusta, Ga, April 4th, 1871.
Some of our Edgefield farmers are
adopts in the art of making Home Made
Manurcs, and of raising very superior
Crops from the proper use thereof, and
we hope they will enter the lists, and
compete for some or all of the liberal
premiums so literally offered by the
Dickson Fertilizer Company.