The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-13

nesses. Their certificates accompanied the
official book for reports, in which con-
testants recorded every detail of culture.
The potato competition was participated
in by thousands, but potato blight swept
the whole country at the hight of the
growing season, reducing the yield from
one-hah to four-ifths. In spite of this I'M
avoidable disaster. a large number OF COM
plete reports have been submitted. The
american AgricuituriSt has completed the
award, with the following astonishing re-
suit:
Grand prize. $500 in gold to Charles B.
Coy, AroostOck county, Maine, for a yield
OF 13S15 bushels of Dakota red potatoes on
a fraction under one acre. dressed with one
ton of Stoc6bridge potato manure. seed
cut to two eyes and dropped in hills 1x234
feet, on clay loan land for six years previ-
Gus in grass without manure of any kind
The principal other prizes were given as
follows: 2, to Alfred Rose, Yates county,
New York, go bushels of Early Peruvian,
Sunlit Star and Early Ontario, cut to two
eyes, planted 9x1S inches on sandy loan en-
rlched with a ton of Mapes potato manure;
., Fred s. Wiggin, Aroostook county, for
o5I15 bushels Dakota red from seed cut to
one eye and planted on fertilizer 4, J. H.
Hitchcock, Wabasha county, Mimi, for
532] bushels Empire State from seed cut to
one size and fed with commercial fertilizer;
3, Delano Moore, Aroostook county, 523
bushels Dakota red cut half and whole and
manfred with Quinnipiac potato phos-
phate; 6, R. c. NIsbet, Rio Grande county,
Colorado, 492 bushels on barnyard manure;
Z, l. d. Roberts, San Luis Obispo county,
California, 47S bushels Peerless, with no
manure or fertilizer; 8, J. NJ. Ogle, King
county, Was 1ington, 460 bushels on fertili-
zeri 8, W. c. Cusick, Union county, Oregon,
42S bushels, also on fertilizer.
The average crop of the prize winners
was 500 bushels, and of the first 100 con
teStants was 361 bushels. This shows how
good farming pays. The contest also settles
what has heretofore been in controversy,
that high grade complete potato fertilizers
are better and more profitable for this crop
than stable manure. Much light is also
thrown upon mooted ways of cutting the
SOSNA' sAiAu many OILSt pOAuJS. n summary
of nearly 100 of the best crops will appear
! in the american Agriculturist for Jan
uary, together with the complete story of
the grand prize yield.
The $500 in the oat class went to Orleans
county, New York, for yield of 1856
bushels. The wheat award is to be an
nounced in the February issue of the mag
azine, and the result with corn in March.
The latter is awaited with peculiar interest
by both practical farmers and agricultural
scientists, because chemical tests of the
amount of water in the crop are being
made IN each case, together with numerous
| complete analyses to ascertain the feeding
| and manurial value of corn under the diff
| ferences in variety, climate, and culture
which prevail in this country These com
| prehensive Investigations are being CON
| Quoted through the cooperation of the
various state and national experiment sta
tions, and promise to be the most extensive
and practically valuable application of
science to ordinary farming.
The american Agriculturist says the
| whole affair is remarkable instance OF the
intelligence and progressive spirit of the
mass of American farmers; that such an
| enterprise would be impracticable in any
| other country, and that it is designed to
have marked effect upon the agriculture
| OF the next decade and enable farmers to
| greatly increase their profits.