The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-02
MERGERS 1910 CORN PRIZES
WILL GIVE $500 THIS YEAR TO
ENCOURAGE GOOD FARMING.
Will Also Be Contest for Boys. and
Prize for Best Acre in South
west Georgia Is Added.

VIII Also BE Contest for Boys, and
Prize for Best Acre in South
west Georgia Is Added.
Hon. ]. R. Mercer, whose prizes
for the four best yields of corn
grown on one acre of Terrell county
land last year did so much to in
crease interest in the cultivation of
corn and was responsible for some
remarkable yields, again offers prizes
to the farmers this year.
Mr.. Mercer, however, has added a
prizes for young men and boys under
p years of age, and a prize for the
best yield of corn on ten acres in
south Georgia.
The prizes aggregate $500, and are
as follows: For the best yield on
once acre in Terrell county, $40; for
the second best yield on one acre in
Terrell county, $50; for the third
best yield on one acre in Terrell
county, $40; for the fourth best yield
on one acre in Terrell county $40,
for the best yield on ten acres in
south Georgia, 500.
For Boys Under 21 Years of Age.
For the best yield on one acre in
Terrell county, $40; for the second
best yield on one acre in Terrell
county, $50; for the third best yield
on one acre in Terrell county $40,
and for the fourth best yield on one
acre in Terrell county $40.
Rules For Terrell County Contestants
Mr.. Mercer has furnished The
News for publication the following
rules governing the contests in Ter
rell county:
To the Farmers of Terrell County:
| am again offering prizes for the
best yields of corn grown on one
acre of land. Each contestant will
be required to furnish a certificate
of two freehOlders that they either
measured or saw the land measured
on which the corn was grown; that
the land measured was 70 yards
square; that the corn was Slip
shucked and one hundred pounds of
dry slip-shucked corn was weighed ;
that this 100 pounds of slip-shucked
corn was shelled and weighed, and
from this the entire number of bush
els raised, allowing fifty-six pounds
of shelled corn to the bushel, was
computed. The freeholders must
also certify that the corn was grown
on upland without irrigation.
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two or more acres, and at gathering
time select seventy yards square from
the tract, the corn to be gathered be-
tween the list and the 18th of Octo-
Der. Each contestant must send me
ten ears of corn in the shuck from the
prize acre at the time of sending in
the certificate of the freeholders as
to the yield. The certificate must be
sealed and addressed to me and
marked Corn Contest"
Any kind and quantity of fertili-
ger may be used, but each contestant
must keep strict account of the
amount, kind and cost of same, time
of each application, time of plant
ing, and state the width of rows and
distance in drill and time and mode
paration of the land Contestants will
be furnished with blanks, on applica-
ton, to fill out the answers to ques-
lions pertaining to all of these de-
tails.
recommend the Williamson
method, but contestants may use
their own method of cultivation |
will furnish a booklet of the Will
hanson method on application.
Checks for the prizes will be mailed
to the successful contestants on Oc-
tober %, 1910.
South Georgia Ten-Acre Contest.
This prize of 500 will be given to
the winner of the first prize awarded
by the judges at the Corn Carnival
in Albany, Ga, sometime in Novem-
Der. Write to the Albany Herald for
full details. JOHN r. MERCER.
A Word to the Boys.
P. Snow, you boys under 21
years of age see your father, mother
or guardian and rent, borrow, beg
or take a cut of land of two or more
acres, prepare it and go to work for
prize. Be careful to keep an ac-
count of every hours work done or
hired done (some of the smaller boys
will have to hire plowing) and the
cost of fertilizer for the whole patch,
and at the time of rendering a state
ment to me prorate the cost of one
acre. J. r. M.