The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., May 07, 1910, Image 1

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A Farm and Home Weekly for the States of Mississippi,
< Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee.
FOUNDED, 1895, BY DR. TAIT BUTLER, AT STARKVILLE, MISS.
Volume XV. No. 18. SATURDAY. MAY 7, 1910. Weekly: $1 a Year
Si,500 Worth of Prizes for Wide-Awake Farmer Boys: A Last Call to You!
N F H l N Hltl-.I) TIlOl.SA.Nl) Southern farmers read The Progres
sive 1' armor and <.a/e(te. That ought to mean that two hun
dred thousand boy * art* in families where The Progressive
I armor and Oazelte is taken.
If there'# one in your family, Mr. Subscriber, w*> have a bully chance
for him, and we want to (ell him uliout it. Here is what we wish
to say :
.My Im>j , you have a chance at nearly 1 ,.'»00 worth of prizes. We
liave told you something about this in previous issues of The Progres
sive I armor ami (.axetie, but you may have overlooked it. At any rate
here is the chance ojien to you once again, and it’s up to you as to
whether you shall seize it or not.
Through the generosity of our advertisers and our company we are
going to give about $l,.%00 to Sun* horn farm boys who make the
biggest am! most profitable corn yields this year. Most of these prizes
will lx> for Imij# not 11) until next year—boys horn after January 1,
1 Hltvi, that Is to say,—bul there will bo some for fellows older, but yet
under i!l.
If you were Intru before 1H1)~, but are yet under -1, we want you
to eultivate live ueres. To the Southern farm hoy who makes the big
gest corn yield on live acre* in 11>Io. using not more than commercial
fertilizer per acre, our Mr. A. L. French, well known to many as a pop
ular Mississippi institute lecturer, will give a handsome young Angus
hull, valued at and other smaller prizes will be offered.
if on the other tiand, you won’t he ill before next year, we want
you to cultivate only one acre of land, and no have a siring of prizes
long enough to make jour head swim—between $1,1100 and $1,500
mirth. Including $2i><» worth of Koyster fertilizer, a $75 Thornhill
2-horse wagon, a $75 Del.aval separator, a $75 Meadows grist mill, $50
tluroe-Jersey, Koland-t'hlna and Iterkshire pigs, a $.lo Iron Age riding
cultivator, a $10 Modern tanner, a $.12 McKay sulky stalk cutter, a
A.Ill Watkins hay press, a earload of lllue lildge lime, a King vv coder,
one ton Meridian fertilizer, a $20 Tower cultivator, etc., etc. A full list
of prize* and their generous glter* w fW appear later. We hope also
l*i include a free trip to Washington willi all expenses paid as one of
the prizes.
Well, my lM>y, we want you to get one of these prizes, and there’s
no time to lose if you are going to do It. Make up your mind about
n now: there's no ho|>e for the fellow who Is always hesitating. These
puzrs will he given to Isiys who cultivate one acre of corn, doing all
the work themselves except needed help in breaking and harvesting,
and the whole AI ,;l(Ml worth will go to the fellows who make the big
gest yields and the biggest profit* per acre. No hoy will bo allowed to
its,* o\er Al<» worth of commercial fertilizer on Ids tore.
Mori* than this, any boy competing for our prizes may also compete
for the scores of other prizes offered by Male and National Depart
ments of \gi t* tlllutr, including, we believe, the tree trip to Washington
Illy with all ex ponses paid, for the best y ield ill e.u li State, tin* pi i/o
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winners from all the States taking the trip together and being royally
entertained in Washington, being introduced to the President and all
that.
Now then, why not have a prize acre? If you get a prize, good
and well, and even if you don’t get a prize, you’ll have the untold
good that comes from putting forth your very best effort—studying,
planning, learning. If you only make the best yield of any boy in your
township, that will be a distinction in itself, and will help make a man
of you.
There are already 40,000 boys lined up in Corn Club work in the
Southern States, each boy cultivating an acre and doing his level best
with it. Let’s make it 100,000.
Let every boy not too old try an acre; let the older ones try five
acres. Wo shall print the pictures of the prize winners in each State
and we shall print the names of all our hoys who make over 50
bushels per acre.
This offer tlds week is a last chance, my boy. The great procession
is moving—10,000 of the brightest, wide-awake young chaps in the
whole South in line, and they are calling you to join them. Will you
do it or will you lag behind and then feel ashamed of missing the
chance they seized?
Try the acre, boy; it can’t possibly do you any harm; it is almost
impossible for it not do you a lot of good. If you are not 19 until next
year or later, sign the lower 1-acre blank and mail to us at once; if
you are already 19 or will bo before the end of this year, sign the
upper 5-acre blank. He sure to enclose 2-cent stamp for one of our but
tons. DO IT TO-DAY. i ,
IF YOU WERE BORN BEFORE JANUARY 1,.
1892, SIGN THIS BLANK— S-ACRE CONTEST.
Publishers The Progressive Farmer and Gazette, Starkville, Miss.
GENTLEMEN: lam over 18 but under 21, and I wish to
compete for Mr. French’s $125 prize, and all others that may be
offered to the boy or young man under 21 who makes the biggest
yield on five acres of corn in 1910. I will not use over $8.00
worth of commercial fertilizer per acre, and will do all work
myself I enclose 2-cent stamp, for which send me one of your
buttons and all literature, and enter my name for the contest.
Yours truly,
Name-— — -——
P. O_State
IF YOU WERE BORN AFTER JANUARY 1,
1892, SIGN THIS BLANK—1-ACRE CONTEST.
Publishers The Progressive Farmer and Gazette, Starkville, Miss.
GENTLEMEN: I will not be 1 9 till next year, or later, and
I want a chance at the $1,300 to $1,500 worth of prizes you offer
to boys of my age and younger who make the biggest yields and
biggest profits on one acre of corn in 1910. I will not use over
$10 worth of commercial fertilizer per acre, and will do all the
work myself, except breaking and harvesting. I enclose 2-cent
stamp, for which send me your literature and a button, and enter
my name for the contest. Yours truly,
Name
p. O._—-State