The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-01-14
The News and courier,s Praxe Contests
for 1906,

asgHe aaftrT
Our offer Of prizes to the most successful
hog growers In the State in 1888 was produc
i've OF 50 good results by arousing and pro-
noting interest in an Important but neglected
farmers 70 engage in 1t again TO theirown pro
ne and with large benefit TO the State, that we
tition, for the year 1t9e, and to extend It so as
TO include a variety of products and to enlist
The details of the contest have not vet been
arranged, bnt will be announced at an early
Day and Ia good time for the due information
OF all who may desire to engage in it. Wo
er.I idea of Is scope, It's limitations il part Part,
the scheme as here outlined is subject to what
ever notifications may be found 6o~be neces-
ssIa I'M getore the hnal announcement of condi-
The competition will be limited to subsorib
ers to the Weekly News and Courier.
The prizes-wilf consist of fve hundred dol.
yer medal. The five hundred dollars viii be
dlyioed INTO prizes of one hundred d. liars
the several contests. The medals will be in
separate. competition, So that no ce1{estan NJ
can receive both a medal and IA cash prize for
One of the contests will DO for hogs again,
PUT uhder somewhat different conditions
when too late to Change the publisheIS CSoddii,
lions materially without Affecting some of the
contestants unfairly, that the restriction of
that might properly have been entered, and
that would have been entered but for that
announcement now, therefore, that the hog
GontesI tor Rvs will begin on March 1; win
pigs Pigs not on o %sys I m lS5efi a oia S %ip ms Se open to all
terms, OF course, will permit the entry of pigs
a oef fhd IN ESo oyo 40 ian and December 1895. as well
proper and liberal for the purposes OF tho
competition.
best exhibit of hay-using tic word in the
Widest sense, to include all kinds of long
Bermuda and other grasses. separate Drink,
etc. es; oq Tho fo eonaiitipe sa VI fSi.s p onmtss yinss, etc,
number of acres. and to the quality of the
product as determined by its selling price in
The News and Courier has a special regard,
Of course, for the tobacco crop, which Capt.
tablishing in South Carolina, and is DESTROYS
OF promoting and extending the cultivation
vi %ll fh be P RiVen so t far f Farmers Praet M5a %at a prize tie
most profitable crop on one acre, so as to al.
low both large and small farmers to compete
tho tobacco win count heavily in such adhui a con n
test, OF course, but quality alone or yield alone,
the capture Of tho prize. As now proposed
the farmer Will win 1T who clears :" the most
conditions evidently win give every tobacco
grower a fair chance and make tho contest
Another and very general. but highly IN
tensely and profitable, contest will be organ
the offer of a prize for the best results obtain
ed from diversified crops grown by a single
farmer. The general plan for this contest /
that the competitors may produce what They
pleasc-cotton, corn, small grain, tobacco, hay
fruit, pindars, truck, hogs, cows, horses sheep
P Ppiae 70 be- sn aWafd esdTts to t hRUn ogo @6o, s stS;wt II,
largest relative profit on the years operations
Provided only that he produces not less thar
-FOUR Inherent kinds of field or orchard CROP
AS corn. cotton, tobacco and hay; or corn
peas, pindars and potatoes; or cotton, hay
turnips and oats; or peaches, cotton, water
melons and corn or grapes, corn, wheat AM
eaobages, and so on through II hundred posi-
Die combinations Of the larger plough crops
with whatever additions may be made in TIN
way, of raising cattle, sheep and hogs an,
poultry, bookkeeping, b~utter-making, garden
e ing tsr mi s FL efoS Stc ibe etc IA The rel purpose ndss Of tn,
round farming pays in South Carolina, an,
to exhibit tho proofs and give public recog
milton to the farmer that makes the best show
ing.
Small and large farmers can compete 70
this prize on equal terms. The highest prof
acres employed on the farm, and including
everything made on the farm, will dctermin
thousand. The prize cannot he Won by spe g
ing time and labor and money on one or tw
crops.
, 1t is most desirable that moro attentio
= should be paid in this State to the industry O
sheep raising, which could be developed t
Important proportions, if the farmers woui
!, take hold Of 1T In earnest. Another prize wi
be offered in tho interest of this Industry.
Another will be offered to be competed 70
organized one Of the most promising new In
duslries in the State, but will be intercstc
doubtless in a%lcontcst which will show VIII
~ n s1Ihdo - teaaS m TINS Pleasant and proi!tabi
Last, but not least in the order of merit an
|. interest, VIII be the prize to be contested 70
on the farms as hard as their husbands an
fathors and brothers and sons. without gel