The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-12-10
O r CLUB BOYS SHOW
OVER 1911
D'ou'h NOT Enough to Damage Showing Except to
increase lost IN Some Cases-George West. Jr.
WINS First Prize-Average Yield 62S Bushels

contest shows an increased average
Yield above 1911. Six hundred and
thlrty-flVe Joys have made their re-
port with a total yield Of $4,000 bush
els or an average yield Of 62.S bushels
per acre. In 1911, four hundred and
thirty-tive boys reported with an
average yield Of 60.7 bushels. The
average cost in 1912 was Ate. while in
is due largely to the severe drouth in
the PIEDMONT section, which reduced
the yield and thereby increased the
cost per bushel.
Two boys made above IT'S bushels.
five above $50, twenty-One above 1925
n Seventy-fOur above 100. The larg-
est yield was made by Richard Brock,
in Wayne county, but his cost of pro-
duction was SO large that the cham
pionship of the State goe sto George
West, Jr., Of kinston, with a yield Of
1S4 bushels.
The two boys making the best rec
ord in each district, twenty in all,
win free trips to the National Corn
Exposition. These trips are given by
the Southern Fertilizer association Of
Atlanta, Ga. Many counties will also
send boys TO this exposition.
One girl, Miss Ethel Smith. Of
Stanly county, competed with the
boys and won third prize in her dis
trict. There were two other girls in
The contest in the State, but their
y1eluS were not large enough 10 win
district prizes.
The work is in charge of !. O..
Schaub, of the state department of as-
riculture.
The prizes follow
Prizes awarded on the basis of larg-
es, yield at least cost per bushel, yield
counting so points and cost so points.
First Prize in State.
Free trip to Washington, ID. c., Of
fered by Farmers union.
Fifty dollars. by the Hastings Seed
Won by Geo. West. Jr.. kinston.
1877 bushels. cost 1Sc. per bushel.
District Prizes.
First and second prizes in the dis
trict are free trips to the National
Corn show at Columbia, S. c., given
by the Southern Fertilizer associa-
1 ton.
Third Prize-$15, given by state de-
partment of agriculture.
Fourth Prize-S12.50 given by state
department of agriculture.
Fifth PriZe~$10, given by state de-
partment of agriculture.
Sixth Prize-s5, given by state de-
rartment of agriculture.
Seventh Prize-$2.50, given by state
department of agriculture.
First District.
Counties Of Camden, Currituck. Pas
auotank. PerQuimanS, Chowan, Wash
iEgton, Tyrrell, Dare, Hyde, Beaufort,
ralnlicO.
First Prize-Herbert Allen, Pungo,
So bushels. cost 14.2c per bushei.
Second Prize-Luther Paul, Pungo,
100 bushels, cost 18c per bushel.
Third Prize-Arthur HolloweH, Ty-
ner. 11e.5 bushels, cost else per
bushel.
Fourth Prize-Earl Norfleet. Ran
somville, 1887 bushels. cost 24.4c. PEI
bushel. -
Fifth Prize-Russell Bishop, Pante-
20, 1O5 bushels, cost 27.8c. per busheI
Sixth Prize-Henry Harris. Pungo
1901 bushels, cost $3.50 per ousheI
Seventh Prize-Howard Whitehurst
bushel.
Second District.
Counties Of Gates, HEREFORD. Bert1e
Martin, Northampton. Halifax, Edge
Combe. Wilson and Warren. !.
First Prize-Robert savage speed
Second Prize-Herman Pitman
kenly, e5 bushels. cost 1850. Pc
bushel.
Third Prize-Edwin Corbett. Mac
rlesfeld 1925 bushels, cost 31.lc. PEI
bushel.
Fourth Prize-wm. Cherry. Speed
1928 bushels, cost SIC per bushel.
Fifth Prize-Marriott Britt Tar
boro, 112 bushels. cost use. Pc
bushel.
Sixth PrlZe-P. u. Teclt, JdiilCS
Vile, 1886 bushels, cost soc pc
bushel.
Seventh PRICE,. T.. Peele, James
Vile. 9O.5 bushels. cost 80 pc
buShel.
Third District.
Counties Of Pitt, Greene, Wayne. lie
noir, Craven, Jones, Carteret, onsio"
Duplin and Pender
First Prize-George West. Jr.. klns
ton. 1S4.7 bushels, cost 1s.2c. pc
buShel. :,
Second Prize-Richard Broch
Princeton, 1SS bushels, cost SZ.oc pc
iushel. -
Third Prize-Ben Nickel, Walls
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