The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-02-05
nig Prizes FOR Big PigA

The News and Courier will pay AOO
In gold to the two farmers or othAy
persons who shall raise the two heav-
Test hogs In South Carolina during che
! year 1895. This amount will be df-
vided into two prizes. The prize for
the biggest hog will be eighty dollars
in gold, and for the second biggest hog
twenty dollars in gold. The third prize
for the hog showing the largest gain
as the lowest cost, will be q complete
set of the A~mericanized Cyclopadia
Britannica, bound in morocco and con-
sisting OF ten volumes.
The only condition Of the contest is
that every contestant must be a yearly
subscriber to The Weekly News and
Courier. The contest will close on De-
cember %, 1896, and the prizes will be
awarded as soon thereafter as it is pos
sible to compare the returns and ascer-
tain who have raised the winning hogs.
Contestants will be required to send to
The News and Courier not later than
January /, 1896, certificate 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
possible the methods employed in rais-
ing and fattening the hogs, the cost Of
raising them and the breed of each.
The contest will be open to every
man, woman and child in the State who
is q yearly subscriber to The Weekly
News and Courier, and who can w
and cultivate a pig. The purpose of
The News and Courier in Offering the
prizes is to encourage the people of the
State to raise their own meat and to
show that South Carolina leads in the
production of hog and hominy, as it
Innlo ~ fho ~ an,,fo Df n0{4N~
goods. Some days ago WE received a
letter from a Barnwell County farmer
suggesting that The News and Courier
offer premiums for the biggest hogs,
and we have adopted the suggestion
Our Barnwell County farmer said:
sit is gratifying to the friends Of your
paper to see the interest manifested in
the welfare of our farmers. Only o few
years ago The News and Courier urged
the people to plant tobacco, which, from
all accounts, has been q blessing to
many in the Pee Dee section of the
State. Now you are showing what u
people car do in raising their own ba-
con. l would suggest that The News
and Courier offer a premium OF 300 to
the one killing the heaviest hog next
December. believe that this would
have q good effect and cause many of
u people to give moro 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
complete 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 lit-'
tie expense. 1t has been demonstrates
that bacon a be produced in Sonth
Carolina at an average cost of three
cents a 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.