The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-01-25
Corn Growing Contest In
GuiIford County
FARMERS MASS MEETING
Will BE Held at Greensboro on rep
ruary 3-Naticnal and State TX
rerts VIII Be Present


Greensboro, Jan. 22.-There was q
large attendance here today OF mem
hers of the executive committee or
the Guilford County Agricultural AS
ISOLATION. Mr.. J. A. Davidson, presl-
dent Of the association, acted as chalr-
man. and the roll call showed that
forty members Of the committee, rep
resenting every township in the coun-
ty, were present. After deciding upon
a plan Of work for the ear, looking
10 the advancement Of the general
farm interests Of the county. h COM
mittee called q mass meeting of farm
ers to meet in Greensboro February
3rd. This meeting is called on the
day that has been set apart as d seed
corn testing day, and besides expert
corn men from the National and State
Agricultural Departments, who Will be
present and give talks, the commit
tee has invited Mr.. Clarence Il. Poe,
editor of the Progressive Farmer, to
deliver an address.
$1,000 in Boys Contest.
The committee Will meet on feb-
ruary 3 to determine the prizes to be
offered for Guilford county men in the
corn contest crops.
h morning the prizes for the
GuilfOrd county boys corn growing
contest were arranged and settled
upon, the rules of the State boys
corn growing contest to apply to the
GuilfCrd county boys. The prizes ag-
gregate $1,000 in cash for Guilford
boys alone. The Guilford County
Poultry Association donated a cash
prize of $40 in gold to the best yield
of any boys in the county.
The schedule of prizes arranged to-
day is as follows: s25 to each town.
ship of the county to go to the boy
in that township making the biggest
yield.
Fifty dollar capital prize to best
yield in county; 25 prizes of SIS each
for best yields; s25 prizes of SO each
for next series of contest results and
% prizes of IS az for the next best
series, 1t was agreed that the prizes
to the boys should be paid in cash
The prizes to be arranged for the
mems contest to be arranged at the
February meeting, will be in the shape
OF farm implements. fertilizers, ma
ChinGry, etc.
The result Of the boys acre corr
growing contest in Guilford county
last year, at which only 800 in prizes
was paid, has proven SO beneficial.
and Interesting to both town an6
Ountr farmers and business men
that there was no difficulty whatever
In securing the pledge Of $1,000 az
prizes to be paid the farmer boys o
Guilford this year, who enter the con
test and conform to the rules gov
erning the same.
Superior Court Has Busy Week.
Superior Court adjourned his af
t~ernOOn, after one of the busies
weeks work ever before known here
Court has been kept co%ntinuousl,
busy trying jury cases all the week
with the result that eleven strongl-
contested Jury cases have been trIet
and disposed Of and no longer encum
Der the docket. Several of these case
involved thousands OF dollars and tn
whole time of the court has been de
voted to business. A great man,
cases nave also been put off the docke
by n~On-suit. compromises Or judg
merits on motions.
Judge Ward has proven himself NJ
only a hard worker. but he has s
guided proceedings as to get ever,
thing a lawyer had in him out {
him. h friction and with az
parent pleasure.