The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-10-12
ATTENTION FARMERS
THE SOUTH ATLANTIC CORN EX.
POSITION WILL BE
Held in Columbia, at Which Eight
Thousand Dollars in Prizes Will

Thousand Dollars in Prizes Will
Be Offered.
Eight thousand dollars will be Of
fered in prizes for the best corn at
the South Atlantic Corn Exposition
held in Columbia December SIS.
| The South Carolina Corn Breeders
Association, who have been promot-
ing the exposition met in the State
| House Thursday and completed
plans for the exposition. The orgdn-
ization was perfected and prominent
farmers will act as superintenents
in the various departments and pro-
mote the exhibition of corn from the
in various districts of North Carroll
ma. South Carolina and Georgia.
Prizes were arranged for each
county in South Carolina, for the
! congressional districts in South Car
DINA and for the three n of
each North Carolina and Georgia.
Sweepstakes will be offered for the
best 10 ears of yellow corn, prolific
white corn, single ear variety white
corn, single ear and bushel lots,
from all the States. All these ex-
hibits will come together in Grand
Sweep-Stake and Grand Champion
Sweep-Stake classes.
The largest prize has been offered
for the best 10 ears Of corn grown
In any of the three States. The win
ner of the Grand Champion Sweep
Stake prize for 10 ears Of corn will
receive as his reward prizes approx
imatlng $500. This Is intened to
bring out the best corn that can be
produced in the South Atlantic
States and $500 for the best 10 ears
will cause the farmers to put forth
their very best efforts in making this
exhibit the finest that can be secur-
ed.
1t is said this exhibit will carry
great honor with 1t for an exhibit
of 10 ears of corn that are the best
that can be grown by any n eX-
hibitor in any of the three states Of
South Carolina, North Carolina and
Georgia, will within itself be a prize
worthy of the highest consideration.
A separate department will be set
apart for the Boys Club and the
boys exhibits. These will have spe-
cial prizes and will be under the d.
rect supervision of the officers of the
Farm Demonstration Work In South
Carolina.
An important feature Of the eX-
position will be the individual dis
plays. there being prizes offered for
the best individual display in each OF
the three states and also for the
Grand Champion individual display.
The n who wins the individual dis
play in either of these States will
receive prizes to the value Of 1920
and the one making the best display
at the exposition will receive an ad-
ditional prize of $50 in cash, thus.
rewarding the exhibitor who makes
the best display. In order 10 MAKE
this premium list as large as it is
the South Carolina Legislature, last
winter, enacted a bill providing g.
$1,000 in cash to be offered as prizes
to the exhibitors of South Carolina
alone. At the same time $500 was
appropriated for the use Of the Corn
Breeders Association in %furthering
it's cause. Various machinery houses,
fertilizer concerns, newspapers, and
business enterprises have contribut-
ed large prizes. The International
Harvester Co, alone has contributed
approximately $500 and the John
Deere Pillow Co., has made liberal Do
nations.
The South Carolina Cotton Seed
Crushcrs' Association has also appro.
priated $500 in cash to be used for
the best corn exhibits made from
South Carolina. In the beginning it
was intended TO raise only $4,000 in
prizes, together with the $1,000, ap-
propriated by the State Legislature
would make $4,000, but the enthus-
iasm in the exposition has been so
widespread, the interest in corn
growing in the South Atlantic States
so great and the llberality of the
varied interests of the South Allan
tic States so marked that larger
prizes have been secured until the
total with aggregate $4,000 in MA
chinery. fertilizer cash, etc. Work
on the premium list has been COM
pleted, and it will come from the
press in a few days and be ready for
distribution.
AT a meeting of the Corn Breed
ers Association Thursday the folio W.
ing organization was completed:
president and General Manager
A. D. Hudson. Newberry, S.. c.
Secretary and Treasurer. K.
Hayes. Pages Mill, S. G.
Superintendent of Entries-Mal-
colin Miller, Columbia. S. C..
Superintendent of Judges-A. G..
Smith Columbia, S. C.
superintendent of Exhibits-A. D.
Hudson. Newberry, S. G..