The daily gazette., 1877-07-09
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To The Farmers Of Delaware,

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At meeting of the Commissio ioners,
held at Seaford, June 25th. it was deter.
mined to offer the following: -"r1
Premiums of $75, $50, and S26, for the
best three results in growing sugar -beets
of 1878.
The undersigned, Commissioners ap-
pointed by the Legislature ofthe State Of
Delaware, to expend certain approDria-
ton for the encouragement of the grow
ing of the sugar-beet for sugar in the
State have concluded to offer for the
competition Of the farmers of the State
the three premiums above mentioned.
The general arrangements are as fol-
1st The number Of competitors will be
limited to five from each hundred in the
State.
I'd. Application should be made in
writing, to the Commissioner resident of
the same county as the applicant, before
the first of October, 1877. Vacancies in
any hundred at the time will be filled
from other hundreds of the same county,
or, in the event of deficiency of appli-
cants, from a county, then from the other
counties. The aim of the Commissioners
will be to give each pait of the State an
equal chance SO far as in their power.
I'd. Applicants should give their post
Office address, and location of their farm
in the application.
4th. The Commissioners will send each
acc opted applicant circular containing
the general directions, based on the ex-
Perience of Europe In growing the beets
for sugar, for their information, They
will also send circular with blanks, to
be filed by the grower, thus furnishing a
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influencing the production of the crop.
9th. The Commissioners will furnish
the best variety of seed, free of cost, suf-
ficient to plant an area about equal to
twenty feet sqnare. This will be done in
the spring of 1873.
9th. The premiums will be awarded and
paid as soon as possible after the crop is
harvested, as follows, to wit
S75 to the farmer producing the largest
quantity of sugar in the beets selected
for the tests, as specified in the "Regula-
tions."
$50 for the second, and $25 for the
third.
The following method will be pursued
in determining the awards Each lot of
beets accepted for competition, will be
mum bered and enrolled with the name of
the grower; they will then be submitted,
without any marks but the number, to
experts, who will be required to report to
the Commission the amount of sugar con-
tanned in each lot, as shown by the tests
made, according to the best scientific
methods, and the numbers of the lots
which show the three best results which
represent the names of the farmers on
the roll made for the purpose, will det er-
mine to whom the remiums are due.
7th. If two or more of the lots showing
the best results are equal, then the farm
ers producing them will be required to
send another lot, subject to the same reg
ulations as the first. ...
General Remdrks.-As good sugar beets
are excellent winter food for stock, and
if sufficiently rich in sugar there is a
probability of a market for them for su-
gar making, the Commission have adopt
ed this method of premiums, as the best
to accomplish the greatest benefit, with
little or no loss to any one, and would re-
spectfully invite the cooperation of the
farmers of Delaware to and them in de-
termining the value of the sugar-beet oul-
ture for the State, so far as it can be done
by this trial.
REGULATIONS, .E
Those only who conform to the fol-
lowing regulations will be entitled to be
considered as competing for the premi-
ums:
First, Farmers resident of, and farms
located in, the hundred from which they
apply.
Second, The beets for competition
should be grown on farm lands, not IN
gardens.
Third, The seed should be planted in
three or mere rows, at the distance OF
two feet between the rows, (the distance
from plant to plant IN the rows to be de-
termined by each one for himself)
Fourth, The tests of the quantity of
sugar contained in beets will be made
from a lot to be selected as follows: All
the beets grown on ten continuous feet
IN length, taken from any of the rows
except the two outside rows.
Fifth, The lot Of beets for testing
should have the tops left on, and should
be harvested the first week in Novem.
ber, packed in a box, marked with The
weight of beets, and the growers name,
directed, and forwarded, without de-
lay, to such place as the Commission
may determine.
Sixth, The balance of the crop should
not be harvested until the premiums arc
awarded. '-
Seventh, Each competitor Is required
to send to the Commissioner of the
county, at the same time the beets are
shipped, statement of his conformity
to, and fulfillm ant of, these regulations
and that the box of beets sent for test
ing contains - beets, the tota
weight of which is---tbs., and is the
product of ten continuous feet in a row
other than the outside rows in the lot.
Eighth, The measuring of the lands
the harvesting, weighing, and countinl
of the beets for testing, all to be done il
the presence of two responsible and die
interested men of the vicinity, who will
attest to the correctness of the state
ment by their signatures, in addition t.
that of the farmer competing.
| COMMISSIONERS.
New Castle County-Lea Pusey, Viii
mlngton. Kent County-Samuel b
Cooper, Camden. Sussex County-Ed
ward l.. Martin, Seaford