The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-12-12
THE LARGEST YIELD OF CoEN.
Il Marlboro Farmer Beats tho Worltt'e
Record for Ono Acre

CHERAw, S. c., Dec. S.--Captain j.
Drake of Marlboro gathered 254 bushels
and 40 pounds of corn from one acre on
his farm in Marlboro. This breaks the
worlds record, the highest heretofore
being 212 and q fraction, raised by DR..
Parker, near Columbia. Captain Drake
is competing for the thousand dollar prize
offered by the american Ag2icuItwist for
the largest yield ofcorn per acre. C5lam.
6ia Register.
COLUMBIA, December S.-As The
Ne1es and Courier has had OCCASION to
remark once in while, there ia positive.
ly no place like South Carolina.
A few days ago the Atlanta Constiiu.
ton, in moment of premature ecstscy at
beating South Carolina record ofll0
bushels Of corn to the acre, published
under conspicuous head lines the an.
nouncement that Georgia farmer had
made l3O bushels, IS pounds to the acre.
1t did not take the Neaos ard Courier
long to produce South Carolina farmer
who, this season, made $50 bushels, so
pounds on one acre. This was sufficient
to establish the supremacy of the Pal.
metto State, but the margin was too
small to be entirely satisfactory, and fur
ther returns from our farmers were await
ed, with full confidence that this State
would do little better still.
The following information is in good
time, and is better by big majority than
was expected. There is a South Caroli-
na farmer who has made this year 254
bushels, 40 pounds of corn upon one acre
Of this States indispensable soil,
Senator G. S. Mccall, Of Marlboro,
himself one of the largest and most sue
cessful planters in the State, tells the
News and Courier Bureau that this yield
has been made by Mr. H. T. Drake, of
brakes P. O., in the southern part of
Marlboro County. The Senator has not
seen the corn measured, but he saw the
crop while it was growing, and then
thought that the yield would be 200
bushels, and he knows the men who
measured the corn and the surveyor who
marked the boundaries of the aero.
Mr.. Drake told him yesterday that this
had been the yield OF his prize crop, as
measured by tho committee, it being
understood, of course, that he was COM
peting for the $500 prize offered the
farmers Of the United State by the
american Agricuhurist for the largest
yield OF corn on one acre and the addi-
tional prize of $500 offered by the South
Carolina department ofagriculture 10 tae
farmer in this State who should win the
american Agriculturists prize.
Senator Mccall has written tonight to
Mr.. Drake urging him 10 have the report
of the committee published at once. 1t
is understood that Mr.. Drake put S175
worth of fertilizers upon his prize acre,
The laud WAS sandy bottom of the
incompatible Marlboro type, and the
crop was made, it is understood, without
irrigation. MIR, Drake isa thoroughly
reliable man and the report Of the com.
mittee vii! verify tue statement 10 Senator
Mccall.
Heretofore this county, Richland,
has had the honor Of producing the lar
gest crop of corn on record, DIR. Parker
having made on the outskirts of Colunl..
b;a, before the war, two hundred bushels
and twelve quarts on one acre. Now the
championship goes TO Marlboro COUNT,
for it is hardly credible that this enor-
NOUS yield can be exceeded anywhere
else in the world.-Me,us and Courier.