Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-04-06
nrLAWARE COLLEGE.
$40 II Prises for Raising Corn
Thirty.nye Prizes for the Boys.

AGklCI DEE We A/nD'O
NEWARK, March 18th, 1882.
PRIZES FOR THE LARGEST YIELD OF
CORN.
~. The General Del. College Prizes.
/. The Agricultural Department Of
Delaware College DESTROYS Of stimais.
ting the ambitionIof the youth OF the
State of developing their energies and
testing the amount of corn that can be
raised upon onequarter Of an acre,
offers the following prizes to the sue
eessful contestants:
/. To the boy who produces the
largest amount of corn upon one fourth
of an acre, the sam of twenty dollars In
gold.
2. To the one who raises the next
largest amount, the sum Of ten dollars
in gold.
5. To the one who raises the next
largest amount, seven dollars and fifty
cents in gold.
4. To the one who raises the fourth
largest amount, Ave dollars In gold.
5. To the one raising the nth larg'
est amount, two dollars and hfty cents
in gold.
6 To each of the twenty boys who
shall raise the next twenty largest
amounts, providing such amounts shall
exceed seventy bushels per acre, a year 9
subscription of the American Agricul.
turist, a large, beautifully illustrated
journal, now publishing its 4lst annual
volume, devoted to the farm, garden,
and household, and full of useful, prac.
tical and reliable information, (price
81. 5Oa ye,r). The litors are in such
hearty sympathy with enterprises OF
this kind that they of their own accord
added several copies to the number
originally proposed in this plan, as
their contribution to the good cause. =,
I. To each of the ten boys who shall
raise the next ten largest amounts, pro.
vlded such amounts shall exceed
seventy bushels per acre, 3 handsome
I limo. volume, worth at least one dol lar
to be selected from Potter 4 Coates list
of publications.
i (2.) The Dean Delaware College Prizes
The Hon. William Dean, of Newark,
!, Del, has authorized the Agricultural
: Department of the College to offer
prizes amounting to sixty dollars FOL
the largest amounts of corn raised on
n one half acre of land, as follows:
A. |. For the largest amount OF bushels
upon one half acre, thirty dollars.
II 9. For the next largest number Of
bushels, twenty dollars.
: 3. For the third largest number Of
} bushels, ten dollars.
Should the first prize Of the Dean
Delaware College Prizes be won by any
: memb Der of the Newark Grange OF Pa
trous of Huspandry, the said Grang'
will add to it the sum of twenty dollar
i, making the first prize fifty dollars
! And shou q any local Grange desire Il
g add a similar inducement to the youns
g men of their section, the College will
| be glad to 80 announce it by circular.
Every successful contestant will b.
f presented with certificate, stating tn
S amount of corn r,ised by him and tn
i prize awarded to him by the College.
WHO MAY BE COMPETITORS.
lO) For the General Delaware Col
g lege Prizes
| ANY boy resident in the State, VIII
o shall not have attained his eighteenth
n birthday, when lie makes application
a to be enrolled as a contestant.
ell foN For tbe Dean Delaware Colleg
q pr;,es
ri Anr narsoo resident In the State An
~ emh ar of tn. ra,rons of Husbandry
II not over twenty-one years OF age, at tn
a time Of making application to be 81
lie rolled as a contestant.
I'll III, CONDITIONS OF CONTEST.
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