The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., March 26, 1910, COTTON SPECIAL, Page 223, Image 3

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$500 TO $1,000 FOR PRIZE ACRES-.
The I*rogre#ai¥e Farmer and Gazette Will Offer From $500 to
$1,000 W’ortli of Prizes, Open to All Our Hoys Under Twenty
Years of Ago -Bee Your Father Now About the Acre of Land
and Get in the Contest—And Then W’rite Us at Once.
To the Farmer Boys who Read The
Progressive Farmer and Oazette.
Dear Farmer Boy: We have had
a great deal to say about the possi
bilities of corn growing and the pos
sibilities of Corn Club work.
Now the time has come for action.
If you are a boy on the farm and
under twenty years old I wish you
would consider this a personal letter.
I want you to get ready right
away to grow an acre of corn—the
Tcry best acre yon possibly ran—
tills year.
Jt
It doesn’t matter whether you are
in the Corn Club work of the State
or National Department of Agricul
ture or not We should rather you
would be, and you ought to be If you
possibly can. because yon will get
help that you would not otherwise
get If you cannot arrange this.
however, that is no reason why you
cannot enter wholly into the contest
that we are going to have for the
boys who read The Progressive
Farmer and Gazette.
Independent of the thousands of
dollars offered in prizes for the boys
in the State and National Cora Con
tests, we are going to have from
•800 to 91,000 worth of prizes, es
pecially for the boys who read our
(taper.
We have not had time to work
out all the details yet. All we can
do now is to let you know that we
are working up the prizes and are
going to give them, and that we
want you to go ahead and get your
acre of corn and get ready to make
a record-breaking crop on it. Keep
account of everything that is done
on It from this time on—all the
labor, fertilizers, and all the other
expenses. We shall have some hun
dreds of dollars worth of prizes for
the biggest yields, but there will be
prises also for the boys who make
tba biggest profit on an acre and
some prizes for boys who make the
biggest increase in yield as compared
with the yield last year. There will
be a special prize or two also for the
boy who makes the biggest yield on
five acres.
We are going to have all sorts of
prizes and they are all going to be
worth Working for. The Progressive
Farmer and Gazette is going to give
a handsomely engraved 14-karat
solid-gold medal to the boy in each
State who makes the best crop, and
our advertisers are going to give
hundreds of dollars worth of prizes
in addition—and all these prizes to
go only to boys where some member
of the family is a subscriber of The
Progressive Farmer and Gazette. If
you are not already a subscriber,
watch out for the special offer which
we will make next week. If some
member of your family subscribes
niLiuu iuo ne*i imriy uays you win
bo in time, but you ought to begin
now so as not to miss a single one
| of the articles which we shall print
on corn-raising.
Jt
As i was saying, there are going to
be also lots of other prizes. We
are going to have lots of improved
farm implements—planters and cul
tivators, disc harrows, weeders, etc.,
several tons of fertilizer, canners,
farm levels, wagons, besides calves
and pigs of the very best blood and
breeding to be found in the South
ern States. Some of these calves and
pigs will alone be worth from $50 to
$75 each, and the boy who gets
them will be nicely started towards
becoming a money-making stock
farmer.
Just as quickly as we can we shall
| work out all these conditions and
prizes and let you know about them.
We are simply telling you this much
in advance so that you may get
ready—and get ready at once. Your
father will let you have an acre of
land, and if he does not think that
he ought to furnish the fertilizer and
manure, tell him that you will pay
for it out of your corn crop. Where
you cannot get the land rent-free,
offer to pay the rent also out of the
crop. Do not let anything balk you.
Get in this contest and go in to beat
the other fellow. Do not wait until
it is too late and then wish that you
had won some $50 or $75 prize
which the other fellow will get easi
ly besides making a pile of money
for himself out of the crop itself.
J*
You don’t have to write us in or
der to enter the contest, but natural
ly we should like to know that you
are interested and we may be able
to send you some literature that will
be helpful. Suppose, therefore, that
you sign the following blank and
mail to us. It doesn’t pledge you to
anything; it simply lets us know
that you are interested so that we
can work together to better advan
tage.
Finally, then, and once again, see
your father to-day about that acre
of land and let’s start with it right
away. * Look up the recent back
numbers of The Progressive Farmer
and Gazette and read the articles on
corn raising. Write a postal to Hon.
O. B. Martin. U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C., and
ask him to send you the literature
they have for the boys who are rais
ing corn.
Don’t wait for somebody to en- m
courage you to go ahead. The boy M|
who strikes out for himself In a Mi
thing like this is the chap who isM|
going to make a man of himself.
Tear off the coupon to-day and
write to us and let us see If we can
not work together.
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER AND
GAZETTE.
By CLARENCE POE,
Associate Editor and Manager.
r. u.BMW.. AVAV.
Publishers The Progressive Farmer and Gazette, Starkville, Miss.
Dear Sirs: I am planning to try to work that acre in corn this
year and I am sending you this blank just to let you know. I wish you
would send me just as soon as possible all the facts about the $500 or
$1,000 worth of prizes that you are going to offer. I will keep strict
account of all the time spent on my acre and the quantity and cost of
the fertilizers. My age is.
Tours very truly,
Name.
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