The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-01-09
Anasraptt gnte1ligentet,
Remarkable Results.

Remarkable Results.
a sensation in the agricultural world
will be created by the experience the
past year of host of the best farmers
throughout the United States and the
Canadas in competing for prizes amount.
ing to about $4,000, offered by the old
standard farmers magazine, the Aners
can Agr,iculturist, of New York. There
we're four grand prizes of $500 in gold
for the largest yields of wheat, oats, corn
and potatoes on one exact acre, and
many minor prizes. Ample provision
was made for securing honesty through.
outthe contest, areas and yields being
carefully supervised by sworn witnesses.
Their certificates accompanied the official
book for reports, in which contestants
recorded every detail of culture.
The potato competition was paflicipa.
ted in by thousands. but potato blight
swept the whole coun try at the height Of
the growing season, reducing the yield
from one half to four. 6fths. In spite Of
this unavoidable disaster, a large number
of complete reports have been submitted.
The american Agricultari,t has completed
the award, with the following astonish-
ing result:
Grand prize, $500 ingold to Charles
B. Coy, Aroostook County, Maine for a
yield of 1881 bushels of Dakota red
potatoes on fraction under one acre,
dressed with one ton ofStockbridge pota-
to manure, aeed cut to two eyes and
dropped in hills lxSs feet, on clay-loam
land, for six years previous in grass
without manure ofany kind. The prin.
cipal other prizes were given as follows :
2, to Alfred Rose, Yetes County, N. Y,
$40 bushels of Early Peruvian, Sunlit
Star and Early Ontario, cut to two eyes,
planted 9x1S inches on sandy loom
enriched with a ton of Mapes potato
manure; 3, Fred S. Wiggin, ArooBtook
County, for 5374 bushels Dakota red
from seed cut to one eye and planted on
fertilizer; 4, J. a. Hitchcock, Wabssha
County, Minn., for 532a bushels Empire
State from seed cut to one size and fed
with commercial fertilizer; S, Delano
Moore, Aroostook County, 523 bushels
Dakota red cut half and whole and ma.
nured with Quinnipiac potato phosphate
6, R. O. Nisbet, Rio Grande County,
Colorado. 1872 bushels on barnyard man
ure; I, I'D. Roberts, San Luis ObiBpo
County, California, 47S bushels Peerless
with no manure OF fertilizer; s, j. M
Ogle, King County, Washington, 46{
bushels on fertilizer; 9, W. q. Cusick
Union County, Oregon, 428 bushels, also
on fertilizer.
the average crop of the prize, winner!
| was 500 bushels, and of the first one hun
dred contestants was 361 bushels pei
acre, while the average crop of the whole
country was only rs bushels. This shows
how good farming pays. The contest al
so settles what has heretofore been IL
controversy, that high grade complet,
potato fertilizers nre better and NOR,
profitable for this crop than stable ma
nure. Much light is also thrown upol
mooted ways of cutting the seed, ant
many otherIpoints. a summary of nearl!
one hundred of the best crops will appea
in the Americaa 1griculturat for January
together with the complete story Of th,
grand prize yield.
The $500 in the oat class went to Or
leans County, New York for a yield Of 1S;
bushels. The wheat award is to be an
nounced in the February issue of th'
magazine ard the result with corn il
March. The latter is awaited will
peculiar interest by both practical farmer
and agricultural scientists, because chem
ical tests of the amount of water in The
crop are being made in each case, toge!he
with numerous complete analyses to as
certain the feeding and manurial value
| of corn under the differences in variety
| climate and culture which prevail in thi
country. These comprehensive investi-
cations are being conducted through the
cooperation of the various States and
national experiment stations and promise
to be the most extensive and practically
valuable application of science to ordi-
nary farming.
The american Agriculturist says the
whole affair is remarkable instance o.
the intelligence and progressive spirit o.
the mass of American farmers that such
an enterprise would be impracticable in
any other country, and that it is designed
to have q marked effect upon the agsi'
culture of the next decade and enable
farmers to greatly increase their profits.
= The costliest dolls house probably
in the world is that made by Chicago
man for his four year.old daughter, at q
cost of $500. Itis built, says cores.
pondent, Of brick, With tower and cupo.
Ia like an ancient castle, and looks for all
the world like a reproduction of the great
modern residence of some millionaire. II
has little fight of stairs leading up to
the solid oak front door and an electric
push bell for the convenience of the baby
visitors Of the happy mistress of the house.
On this door, which by the way, is four
feet high, is the name of the proprietor
on silver plate. There ID q hallway
lighted by miniature gas lamp suspended
from the ceiling, and it is finished in the
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