The Southerner (Tarboro', Edgecombe Co.,

State Agricultural Society.

Corn Sweepstakes.—Attention Farmers!

Our friend John S. Dancy, President
of the State Agricultural Society has
been in Raleigh, this week, and while
here proposed a matter which we think
worthy of universal consideration. He
proposes a Corn Sweepstakes to be ar-
ranged as follows: Whoever wishes to
enter is to send his name to the Secre-
tary of the State Agricultural Society,
and pay or subscribe to be paid next
summer, five dollars.

Each one who thus enters is to have
laid off one acre of land, to be examined
by some three of his neighbors, the
land to be of a quality that will yield,
say three barrels of corn; and at the end
of the season these neighbors, or a de-
putation from the County Society are
to measure the yield and report it to
the parent Society.

The whole amount subscribed will
form the stakes to be divided into three
shares—one-half to go to him who
makes the best yield, two-thirds of the
remainder to him who makes the next
best crop, and the balance to him who
ranks third. Indian Corn is proposed
as the crop, because it is the most gener-
ally cultivated in North-Carolina.

The idea is admirable; every one who
joins in this race will be a winner, and
in this respect it is unlike all others.
Farmers! here is a chance to make
hundreds of dollars from a single acre!
Farmers of North-Carolina! every one
of you who joins in this struggle
will make a handsome profit—it will be
a struggle which will tell for lasting
good on the lands and prospects of all.
Let us hear from you from Currituck to
Cherokee; the fee is small, the stake is
great.

Messrs. Dancy, Lewis Thompson, of
Bertie, and N. W. Woodfin, of Bun-
combe, all excellent farmers, and gen-
tlemen of high character, were the first
to enter. By the time we go to press
we presume at least a score of names,
highly respected in North-Carolina, will
be sent in. We shall chronicle them
all as they come, and we hope to have a
list half as long as our subscription.
In the mean time we are happy to
see our young President so efficient in
the cause whose helm has been entrusted
to his hands, and feel sure that our
Society will prosper.—Weekly Post.