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Show A UljT Curo VIeld. The largest crop of corn ever produced pro-duced on one acre, accordiny to the Charleston News and Courier, was that raised by a farmer in Marlboro county, S. C, in Ib'J'3. A prize of one thousand dollars was offered for the largest yield on an acre, and this farmer chose a piece of worn-out piney woods, sandy land, to which he applied more than a thousand dollars' worth of fertilizers. The season was favorable aud the cultivator cul-tivator was kept (joint almoiit constantly. con-stantly. The stund became so thick and heavily burdened with ears that fences had to be built to sustain it. When the crop was gathered it measured meas-ured within a peck of two hundred and fifty-five bushels and carried off the prize, which the farmer richly deserved, for it takes a valiant man to spend more than a thousand dollars to enrich a single acre. |