Smyrna times., 1877-07-11
To The Farmers of Delaware.


At a meeting of the Commissioners, held |
at Seaford, June 25th, it was determined |
to offer the following:
Premiums Of $75, $50, and $25, for tie lest
Hrtc results M grodcing Sagdr-dcctS for sugar, the
prodoction Of tie season Of 1873.
The undersigned, Commissioners appoin- |
ted by the Legislature of the State of Della |
ware, to cXpend a certain appropriation for |
the encouragement of the growing of the |
sugar-beet for sugar in the State have con-
cluded to offer for the competition Of the |
farmers Of the State the three premiums
above mentioned.
The general arrangements are as follows
lst. The number of competitors will be
limited to five from each hundred in the
State.
ID. Application should be made in wri-
ting, to the Commissioner resident of the
same county as the applicant, before the
first of October, 1877. Vacancies in any
hundred at that time will be filed from
other hundreds of the same county, or, in
the event of deficiency of applicants, from
@ounty, then from the other counties.
The aim of the Commissioners will be to
give each part of the State an equal chance
so far as is in their power.
Sd. Applicants should give their post
office address, and location of their farm,
in the application.
4th. The Commissioners will send each
accepted applicant a 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 filled
by the grower, thus furnishing report of
the principal facts of interest influencing
the production of the crop.
5th. The Commissioners will furnish the
hocf iOfxv OF frO0 &c -,,44a a,o
to plant an area about equal to twenty feet
square. This will be done in the spring of
1878.
9th. The premiums will be awarded and
paid as soon as possible after the crop is
harvested, as follows, to wit:
$75 to the farmer producing the largest
quantity of sugar in the beets selected for
the tests, rs specified in the "Regulations :"
$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 contained in each lot,
as shown by the tests made, according to
the best scientific methods, and the num-
bers of the lots which show the three best
results which represent the names of the
farmers on the roll made for the purpose,
will determine to whom the premiums are
due.
7th. If two or more of the lots showing
the best results are equal, then the farmers
producing them will be required to send
another lot, subject to the same regulations
Us the first.
General Rcmarks.-As good sugar beets
are excellent winter food for stock, and if
sufficiently rich in sugar there is proba-
bility OF market for them for sugar
making, the Commission have adopted this
method Of premiums, as the best to ac-
complish the greatest benfit, with little or
no loss to any one, and would respectfully
invite the corporations of the farmers of
Delaware to aid them in determining the
value of the sugarbeet culture for the
State, so far as can be done by this trial
Regul1tons.-Those only who conform to
the following regulations will be entitled to
be considered as competing for the pre-.
miumS:
First, Farmers resident Of, and farms
located in, the hundred from which tn ey
apply.
Second, The beets for competition should
be grown on farm lands, not in gardens.
Third, The seed should be planted in
three or more rows, at the distance of two
feet between the rows, (the distance from
plant to plant in the rows to be determined
by each for himself)
Fourth, The tests of the quantity of SUI
gar contained in beets will be made from .
lot to be selected as follows: Al the beet
groom on ten continuous feet in length, taken ron
any of tie rOWS except tie tlco outside ro,0s
Fifth, The lot of beets for testing shoulC
have the tops left on, and should be har
vested the first week in November, packet
in box, marked with the weight of beets
and growers name, directed, and foi
warded, without delay, to such place as tn
Commission may determine.
Sixth, The balance of the crop shoul
not be harvested until the premiums ar
awarded.
Seventh, Each competitor is required t
send to the Commissioner of the county, q
the same time the beets are shipped,
statement of his conformity to, and fulfil
ment of, these regulations, and that tn
box of bects sent for testing contains -
beets, the total weight of which is s- lbs
and is the product of ten continuous fee
in n row other than the outside rows in tn
lot.
Eighth, The measuring of the lands tn
harvesting, weighing, and counting of tn
beets for testing, all to be done in tn
presence of two responsible and disinteres
ed men of the vicinity, who will attest I
the correctness of the statement by the
signatures, in addition to that of the farmC
competing
ComnliSsioners.-Ne Castle county-Le
Pusey, Wilmington; Kent coun ty-Sam
B. Cooper, Camden; Sussex county-Ed,
i. Martin, Seaford.
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nooga, Tenn, states the following fact
the Fisk University for colored students
Nashville: "Out of 246 students, the
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