The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-01-23
The NcWs and COuricr's Prize
Contests for 1900.

LILO NcWs una COurtcfS Prize
Contests for 1900.
| Our offer of prizes to tho most
successful hog growers in the State
in 1895 was productive of SO good
results by arousing and promoting
interest III an important but neg.
lected agricultural industry and
inducing many farmers to engage
in it again to their own profit and
with large benefit to the State,
that we have determined to or.
ganize another competition for
the year 1896, and to extend it SO
as to include variety of prod
ucts and to enlist O. still larger
number of farmers in it.
The details of che contest have
not yet been arranged, but Will be
announced at an early day and in
good time for the due information
of all who may desire to engage in
it. We cannot do more to-day
than give IL very general idea of
its scope, it's limitations in part,
and is objects, with the under
standing that the scheme as here
outlined is subject to whatever
notifications may be found to be
necessary before the final an
nouncement of conditions is made.
The competition will be limited
to subscribers to Tho Weekly News
and Courier.
The prizes will consist of five
hundred dollars in cash, and one
gold medal and one silver medal.
The five hundred dollars will be
divided into prizes OF ono hum
dred dollars and fifty dollars, to
be paid to the winnors in tho sew
oral contests. Tho medals will be
independent of the cash prizes,
and subject to separate competi-
ton, SO that no contestant can re-
ceive both a medal and a cash
prize for the samo thing.
One of the contests, will be for
hogs again, but under somewhat
different conditions from the con-
test of 1895. We learned last
year, when too late to change the
published conditions materially
without affecting some Of the con-
testants unfairly, that the restric-
ton of the contest to pigs born in
1895 excluded some that might
properly havo been entered, and
that would have been entered but
for that limitation. We make the
timely and definite announcement
now, therefore, that the hog con-
test for 1896 will begin on March
1; will closo 300 days lator; and
will be open to all pigs not 4
months old on March /. These
terms, of course, will permit the
entry of pigs born IN November
and December, 1895, as we'll as
those born IN 1896, and wo think
arc both proper and liberal for the
purposes Of the competition.
Another contest will be organ.
lied for the best exhibit of bay
using the word in the widest sense
to include all kinds of ''long "fecd'
OF "forage" as clover, timothy, al.
falfa, Bermuda and other grasses
separate or mixed, corn fodder
poa vines, pindar vines, etc. etc
The conditions of this contest viii,
probably relate to tho yield DO,
acre, for stated number of acres
and to the quality of the product
as determined by its selling price
in the Charleston market.
The News and Courier has q
special regard, of course, for the
tobacco crop, which Capt. Daw-
son was SO largely instrumental in
re-establishing in South Carolina,
and is desirous of promoting and
extending tho cultivation Of the
plant as far as practicable. A.
prize will be givon to the farmer
who makos the most profitable
crop on ono acre, SO as to allow
both large and small farmers to
compete for it on an equal footing.
The quality Of the tobacco will
count heavily in such contest, of
course, but quality alone or yield
alone, or quality and yield togoth-
er will not insure tho capture Of
tho prize. As now proposed tho
farmer will win it who "clears"
tho most money from an acre, and
tells his fellow farmers how ho
managed to do SO, and these oop-
ditions evidently Will give every
tobacco grower fair chance and
make the contest both interesting
and instructive.
Another and very general, but
highly intensely and profitable,
ontest will be organized for pro-
gressirc call round' farmers, by
the offer of a prize for the best
results obtained from diversified
crops grown by q single farmer.
The general plan Of this contest is
that tho competitors may produce
what they plcaso-cotton, corn,