The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-02-06
DEPARTMENTS
ISSUE PRIZES
They Tell of the Corn Growers
Contest for This Year
THERE ARE TEN DISTRICTS
IN NORTH CAROLINA NOW

BOY Gets a Free Trip to Washington
RULES That VIII Govern the Contest-It
1. to BE O Great One-Average of Last
Year Was Over sixty Bushels - Three
Times the Natural Yield and Then
some-Mr. L. O. Schaub Has Local
Charge.
rhr North, Carolina Boys Corn Club.
CONDUCTED by the United states Depart
mont If Agriculture, the North Carolina
department Of Agriculture and by the
state Agricultural and Mechanical Col
ta-r. has announced for the current year
.hr list of prizes that will be given for
hose making the best averages ON the
,orn harvest.
Tie statement issued by these depart
urnts show Il wonderful increase in the
l aid. The average for the contestants
iaSt year was 621@ bushels an acre and
me cost was A. cents. Thc average yield
over The State was Is and 2-l0 bushels,
',s, than onc-third OF that attained by
The clubs will this year have ten dis
~t5ietS, having somewhat a relationship to
thc Congressional divisions, but not
framed with that In mind, Of course. The
~ 81 'th NV tANS t''SA
much Of the cost of cultivation. 1t has
been found out that there is great advan-
fagc in the intelligent method OF till nG
No soil. The increased yield far exceeds
the natural one and much more than pays
fer tn" added expense in the cultivation.
Mr.. |. @. Schanh has charge OF this ex-
tension from West Raleigh. He is max
iu2 a great effort to have the young men
r tie state to enter the contest and make
Il 20. The following rules with the list
Y prizes have been issued and govern the
ontcSt:
Partial List Of Prizes.
state prize Of a free trip to Washing
i,n. II. e.. to be awarded to the boy max
ing the largest yield at the least cost
.g bushel.
District cash prizes. offered by the State
Department of Agriculture. Five prize
in rlch district for best yield at least cost
.rr hushcl. First. $1,000: second. $3.50
third. $lu.0O; fourth. 500; fifth, $50.
First District-CountieS OF Camden. Cur
.tuck. pasquotank. I'erQuimans, Chowan
washington, Tyrrell. Dare, Hyde, Beau
ort. Pamlico
ord. BERTHE, Martin. Northampton. Hall
'lv, EdgecoInbe, Wilson, Warren.
Third District-Counties of Pitt. Greene
Wayne. Lenoir, Craven Jones, Carteret
HSlow. DuDl'n pendcr.
Fourth District Counties OF Vance
Granville. Durham, Franklin, Nash. John
tn. Wake, nathan. Lee.
Fifth District-Count'es OF Person. Or
Au%'s 1aH GAtdtlidltC. hoA
afford, Randolph. Stokes, Davidson.
SiN'h District-Counties of New Han
over, brunswick. Columbus, Baden. Sanlp
-on, Hoheson. Cumberland. Harnett, Hoke
Seventh District-Counties Of Scotland
Moore, chmond. Montgomery. Ansoi
Ntanly. Union, CaharruS, Mecklenburg.
Eighth District-Counties of Surry, Al
,ghahy, Wilkes, Alexander, Ashe, Wa
aAlra. Caldwell, Burke, Mcdowell. Mitch
eli, lanccy, Avery.
Ninth District-Counties Of Yadkir
n3vie. Rowan. Iredeil, Catawba, Lincoln
CASTOR. Cleveland. Rutherford, Polk.
Tenth District-Countses Of Madison
Runromhe. Henderson, Transatlantic. Ha!
wood. jackson. Macon. Swain. Graham
tlay, Cherokee.
The Rules Of The Contest.
l.. All member must be under IS yea
- age August /. 1912.
:. Each boy must plant one acre
corn, 4S4O square yardsl, doing all II
work himself, except that small boys ma
hire their land broken.
Z. No member must use more than :
worth Of commercial fertilizer.
l.. Each member must keep q record
his work. amount Of manure and fertile
used and make out q report on the specl
blank which will be furnished him.
>. Each member must read the lnStru
'l"nS sent him by the Department Of Asl