The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-01-30
Big Prizes For Big Pigs.

[From the News and Courier, Jan.24, 1881
The News and Courier will pay 500 in
gold to the two farmers or other persons
who shall raise the two heaviest hogs in
South Carolina during the year 1895. This
amount will be divided into etwo prizes.
The prize for the biggest hog will be eighty
dollars in gold, and for the second biggest
hog twenty dollars in gold. a third prize
for the hog showing the largest gain at the
lowest costs, will be complete set Of the
Americanized Cyclopedia Britannica,
bound in morocco and consisting Of ten
volumes.
The only condition Of the contest is that
every contestant must be yearly subscrlb-
er to tho Weekly News and Courier. The
contest will close on December 25. 1895.
and the prizes will be awarded ss soon
t. GREATER as it is possible to compare the
returns and ascertain who have raised the
winning hogs. Contestants will be re-
quired to send to The News and Courier
not latter then January /, 1896, q certif-
cate signed by three witnesses, and sworn
to before the nearest Trial Justice, giving
the age, gross weight and net weight Of
their hogs, and stating as nearly as posi-
ble the methods employed in raising and
fattening the hogs, the cost Of raising them
and the breed of each.
The contest will oe open to every man,
women and child in the State who ls a
yearly subscriber to The Weekly News and
Courier, and who can own and cultivate a
pig. The purpose Of The News and
Courier in offering the prizes is to encour-
age the people of the State to raise their
own meat and to show that South Carolina
leads in the production Of hog and hom-
my, as it leads in the manufacture Of cot
ton goods, Some days ago We received q
letter from Barnwell County farmer sug-
costing that The News and Courier offer
premiums for the biggest -hogs, and we
have adopted the suggestion. Our Barn
well county farmer said:
ut is gratifying to the friends OF your
paper to see the interest manifested IN the
welfare of our farmers. Only few years
ago The News and Courier urged the peo-
pie to plant tobacco, which, from all ac-
counts, has been blessing to many in the
Pee Dee section Of the State. Now you
are showing what our people can do IN
raising their own bacon. would suggest
that The News and Courier offer q pre-
MUM OF S100 to the one killing the heav-
lest hog next December Ibelieve that this
would have good effect and cause many
of our people to give more attention to the
Hog, and that next December there would
be bigger hogs killed in this State than
ever before This plan would allow the
smallest farmer to compete for the prize
The reports from all parts of the State
which we have published show that while
the people have little money they have
more home raised hog and hominy than
in any year since the war Some Of the
reports of big hogs that we have received
are almost startling, so big were the hogs.
and grown at SO little expense. 1t has
been demonstrated that bacon can be pro-
duced in South Carolina at an average cost
of three cents pound.
The News and Courier will pay one
hundred dollars in gold to the two men.
women or children who shall grow the two
biggest hogs this year. Every farmer in
the State should enter for the contest; every
town in the State should try conclusions
with its country neighbors.