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bushels, but he expects to get 1200 from some of 

 his acres later on. His crop this year, covering 

 25 acres, brought from $12,000 to $14,000. 



Corn is the staple American product, but there 

 are many other things that give larger returns for 

 time and labor expended. The yield of corn per 

 acre for 1906 was 81 bushels; this is the general 

 average. The prize offered by the American Ag- 

 riculturist for the best yield for that year was 

 won by J. A. Tindale, Clarendon County, S. C., 

 with 182 bushels. But this does not touch the 

 world's record, won in a similar contest in 1889 

 by Z. J. Drake, of Marlboro Co., with 217 bushels 

 of chemically dry corn, or 255 bushels green 

 weight, to one acre. That little 150 bushels of 

 corn extra which Mr. Tindale raised was the re- 

 ward of intelligent effort; but unless someone 

 will give you a prize it won't pay to try for it. 



Henry Jerolaman, of New Jersey, is known 

 as the Strawberry King of the World. His farm 

 has been producing strawberries for more than 

 forty years. When it was the property of Seth 

 Boyden, it produced in 1869 the world's record 

 for size, and the berry was called after the 



