Show THE WHEAT CONTEST COXET list of the Winners ia the American ArrtulturisfJ Competition In the Xmrs of Saturday lat I was stated that Mr William Gibby of Farmers Ward had amlr hd received from Uie publishers of the imenccm ASTKuliuritt the jrlze of 500 awarded for the largest yield cf bet t9 the acre in the United otatis In connection with the contest we take the from following rrm the February number of the journal iu question From nearly every State in the Union entries far the American AffricuUunU wheat contest ilmcn were received but on ing t cntt an unusual season over vast nreis of our coun try the results are in a roeasuredis cun mlre 1 nppolntlng More than onehalf of C all competitors withdrew before harvest time discouraged by the failure of their croiw While an unpreccdcnUd rainfall intlieKast has drowned thu crops and hoe of many contestant extreme drought bad a similar cflect with many truht the Vst T A writes from Connecticut Stanley wrte crop vf nearly a total failure 1 crp t 5iVe it up the Met weather has ruined it and JF from Maine Fhs acre Langley of wheat reports en Ured for competition is n dismal fail ure storms nud warm cloudy neither have laid I t low never to rpe asaiu In Strong contract is i J n Newarks statement from wninR ln tiiis section we have Wy i Wkpweicod the dryest reason i jwrn m consequence of which the I OII are very short not having suf1 cent water t Irrigate them I lo taught Nevertheless by this valuable contest lefJOUS and thefolj w ere j j I I l in reports by successful oii 1 petitors will b read with Interest wih Intert and The profit I I first prite acre was twenty rods long ami threu rods wide r ant tr wide It w s surveyed by Henry F Burton I s btluP of S lt Hake City Itah wlioso swora certificate sigued by Justice I Alma 1ratt vouches for the cor rectness of the statement T ie har vesting and measuring was wit nessed and sworn to by WiI Wa stalT Joseph F Andrew and i I William SteX nKin all of Silt Lake dHi City Tito soil is a sandy loam of I mediutsi moisture The value of tills Ian4 i from S1200 t 51500 per nr thi I oicing t its proximity to the city and the owner justly thinks that it I I getting too highpriced fur farming purposes InlSS5 the land was in I 1 jotatoes inlSSSin uljeatjin 15S7ini I I J outs and iu 1SSS in potatoes The TIe ptto only fertilizer u e as good stable manuru applied during the winter if 1SS7SS at Uie rte of abut fif teen wagon cads to the acre In the beginning of November 1S Wic ground was plowed oncw About fix Inches dlI at 1 C 01C S15D for man and tem The field > a neither crOlowe nor har rowtd a Mr CJibbeys experience I h < s him to think that I thu land Is left rough it aQords better I tion to tho grain in winter than protec an I II entirely smooth surtice the uneven ground holding the snow liettcr I out the middle of November 1SSS the teed was drilled in three inches tep with a Keystone lr rnlurn Drill which has always I given SHtactiou heh rl came I > il I he middle of February 159 ti v a ueitlier rollnl nor has I I received I any other attention of otler atteutou J Onlling until AprillO when jt was rolled once Xo other care was I given until harvest tme anJ the prize acre received no different trrat I ment than from the general wheat rap on 4ne larm Uie r f of I I which averaged seventy bushel t the Acre not an uncommon our I I ivnce in that n tut locality we are as fu nil One bushel Inn and one peck ot i teeu was sown on the ncr p nimuof the variety isjiot given theme the-me kind having been grown on the place for fifteen years without illative C Ilefore sowing the seed M os treated wit blue vitriol and then dried in lime dust On July 19Ui the crop was har te wit a McCormick binder at a cost of eto i50 The heaves were hhocked in the field and threshed on AugusSlet 21t The crop on the con tent acre made 918 ac bundles and yielded a total weight of cleaned grain cf 4505 elCne gyln 4S pounds or eighty bushels and six pound Tliis being i the largest yield obtained from one acre under the conditions of thejimcncan cndions Ayncttlturut mn 1rur Prize Cron Competition UtoAmtneanAn riculurttl Grand Prlzu of JTOO In gold I awarded to William Gibby aware Salt Iake City Utah A consider ably larger yield Mr Gibby states would have been obtained had it not been for In the English sparrows which took a good share rws tle grain and which arc ta regular jx t It The hecond jirize ROCS t Jfr nob ert C Xlsbet Del Xortf Colorado tho thin prize to Mr J H Lee L Siiuda Indiana and Uie fourth prizjcrop was grown by Mr Bsr Uiolimew Gene Whito Plains Wtf tchister Co y Y Mrs A O VVoodfonl Trumbull Co Ohio cap tured the fifth prize Mr Cp Grel Jer Lancaster Co Penn takes the sixth To Mr DL Cassele I burg Lower Providence Pcnn la awarled the tetof Loudou hay toola contributed by the Loudon Machinery Machin-ery Co Fairfield Inwa 1f Jnchln < ante Yam Hill Co Oregon re Jvea l the latt prize |