The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-01-16

head and cost OF production conSld-
cred. from two acres of kaffir corn
or milo maize grown by irrigation.
First prize, $500; second prize,
$500; for the next ten best results,
$50 each; twelve prizes in all
amounting to $1,000. This contesT
is opened to everybody.
Cultivation of Milo Maize and
/ kaffir Corn Recommended-Ey
farmer in the state of Texas, it mat
{ tiers not in what section he lives, is
, advised to raise each year moder-
ate amount of milo maize and kaffir
corn, These are of the sorghum
family. and are drouth resistent.
They will wait for the rain, and
grow and mature when it comes
while Indian corn, under like cir
, cumstances, will die; in point of
value as food for all kinds of stock,
in both grain and roughness, they
will average to be fully as valuable
per acre as Indian corn. If you had
intended to plant twenty acres in
Indian corn, put five acres Of the
ground in kaffir corn. or milo maize
and the other fifteen acres in IN
dian corn, and note results.
General Conditions-The crops in
each of the above classes must be
grown on one plot or tract of land
of the required acreage, on the same
| farm, under one management, and
without irrigation except in Glass
IE
Competition in each class is opon
to men, women, boys and girls, ex-
cept in Glasses and C, which are
limited to boys and girls under 20
years of age on January 1, 1912.
A contestant is not required to do |
all the work himself necessary to |
produce his crop, but he must have |
control and exercise personal super
vision over it.
Contestants qualified to do 50
may enter in any one or all of the
above classes, and they may make
as many entries in each class as
they choose Each contestant must
so describe the location of his land
that an inspector may easily find it.
Full and regular crop reports, on
blanks to be furnished for that pur-
pose must be made to the congress
by each contestant on the first of
each month, from March to October, |
and failure to make re- |
ports for two months in succession |
will be considered as notice that
the contestant has withdrawn. A
fA lra ant Of hF
| the crop As cultivated, the cost Of
\ seed, rental, labor, fertilizers or
amy, and every other item of ex-
pense incurred in making it. The
contestants personal labor must be
calculated at the rate of ten cents
= per hour. the labor of each horse
used at five cents per hour, and
each two-horse load of stable ma
nure at two dollars. The land upon
which the crop is grown must be
measured in such a way as to be ap-
proximately correct. The measure
ment of the land and the crop yield
in each class must be proven by the
affidavits of the contestant and two
disinterested witnesses, upon blanks
to be furnished for that purpose.
No application to enter any of the
contests will be received after April
/, 1912.
Every contestant must agree not
to appeal from the decision of the
committee on awards, but to accept
its judgment in every case as final.
Some Suggestions-The Texas
Industrial Congress makes this prize
offer because it believes that the
necessity for the conservation OF
the soil and the adoption of better
cultural methods is so vital to the
agricultural, commercial and indus
trial interests of the state that
every possible effort should be made
to teach scientific cultivation, rota .
ton and diyersification of crops,
and the maintenance of the soil 9
fertility. The prizes offered are free,
and there are no fees or charges of
any kind to be paid by contestants,
the sole object being to help the
farmers to help themselves, realiz-
ing that as they prosper the whole
state necessarily prospers as we'll.
The congress most earnestly re-
quests the assistance and co-opera-
ton of the newspapers, state and
county officials, county commits
sioners' courts, business mems as
: sociations, commercial clubs, ard
, agricultural demonstration agents
and suggests that additional prizes
in such amounts as may be de med
proper, for identical crops. under
J exactly the same conditions, as Of
fered by the congress, should be Of
fered in each county and locality, Il
the end that contestants may have
= an opportunity to win both state
and a county or local prize, or fail
, ing to secure state prize may win
a local prize. The congress requests
that it be advised promptly OF all
prizes so offered Every landlord is
J requested to cooperate with his ten
ants who enter this contest in
, Glass A, by remitting the rent and
: the cost of production on the two
and One-haIf acres Olautpd in COW