Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-10-18
PARKSVILLE NEWS.
List of Cash Prizes to be Award.
ed at The Fair. A Strong
Plea For Insect Destroy
ing Birds.

ing DlrQS.
We ask The Advertiser to pub
lish the subjoined list of cash
premiums, offered by the west-side
fair association as follows:
Horses, County Raised.
Best saddle horse $500 200
Q Best harness horse 500 200
8 Best stallion 500 200
4 Best mare and colt 1911 500 200
5 Best colt, 1911 800 200
6 Best pair mules 500 900
Z Best mule colt 1911 500 400
Cattle.
8 Best dairy cow 500 200
70 Best dairy heifer 800 200
10 Best bull any breed 500 200
IL Best steer 200 LOO
Hogs.
,l2 Best Berkshire boar 800 200
Is Best Berkshire SOW 800 200
IA Best Essex boar 800 200
Is Best Essex SOW. 500 200
16 Best barrow 800 200
Fowls.
II Best pen chickens, cock
and three hens, any breed 800 200
ls Best display home cured
bacon 800 200 100
Farm Crops.
lst Cd 3rd
2OO-lb 50-lb
10 Best bu. wheat 200 Stag soda
20 Best ! bu oats
81 Best ! bu. peas
% Best ! bu. yellow corn
23 Best ! white corn
"a Best J bu. swt. potatoes
25 Best ! bu. turnips
26 Best bu. rutabagas
27 Best ! doz. collards
% Best O-lbs short staple cotton "
30 Best lO-lbs long staple cotton
lst I'd srd
lOO-lb 5O-lb
80 Best bale pea vine
hay sl.5o soda soda a.
81 Best bale grass hay :.
80 Best fall vegetables =,
33 Best 5 stalks cotton
tffI =.
s6 Best corn display, l pr. pigs !
pr. fowls. -
AZ Best individual d isplay OF farm
product 1, 2,S, 4, o. loo-los
soda each.
ss Bows corn display, best scores
lst, $500 I'd, loo-lb soda, srd
l bu. corn; 4th $l.oC.
20 Bows cattle Judging, best scores
lst, s4.oo; Cd, 1oo-lbs. soda
3rd, Q bu. oats.
40 Boys Judging hogs, best score
lst, $500; I'd bu. oats; Srd
bu. ,o
Al Best display butter, Ist, $50
!, Cd l bale P V hay;
40 Judging horses (men)
Best scores, lst, 500 I'd, ,loo-l
: srd. l bu. corn; 4th J bu. whe;
9 5th whip.
y "a Best school exhibit 500 $50 IL
~ " IA Best floral display 800 200 IL
y y 45 Best fancy work 800 200 1t
q 4s Best loaf bread 95 lbs flour.
AZ Rest variety of breads 25lbs tlou
~ AZ Best biscuits case baking po'
o. der.
:, 40 Rest variety cakes as lbs for
~ ~ 80 Best report of fair sent to Eds .,
- ~ field Advertiser by a school GIRL
- wears subscription.
u. u. 50 Best report of speech by Go
~ :" Watson, sent to Edgefeld Chro
ID Is, cle by school boy l years 81
an an ''. NOTE-Other awards may
'ui nosted on the second day OF
- fair if the first days gate recei
ill warrant. ,,,od
M write copies for us something
er. n this: Many men of many :, MIL NIL
tha 1n manv nan birds of many kinds" w!
.ne w natnre has given us a great var
o;a. 'H in the minds of men, no two be
u, un- alike, in fact no two things are
ged un actly alike, not even the leave
svu = ~. t the trees, it is not my purpos.
OF discourse upon these things.
, hs the birds 1 would like to spe'
;S De word vuy for. The other day I was
I,s ! 10 tieing the cotton leaf caterp
~ that tlf had stripped the leaves :,
the bolls of cotton from the stan
NJ NJ some cotton that ran right up
AXE the yard of a young nelghbor,
';ns, i remarked that her chickens we
voTv ,lnT, full of the pests, that they W
oc;s. ocis not eat their food; and l
their where are the birds? Where al
cold cold sparrows? A few years ago tie
'oi0 trv was full of English spar
mis-. bnt 9 where are they now, for l
r the the seen S very few of them , recen
iuh;. The thought thou of Mr.. James Henry
1ao oad 5oc;ded I would join the 1