Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-09

Se'ho grass tIlStt mas CUT 1rOm lWO 10 SIX bOIS
per acre. Tame grasses. timothy, clover.
red top. Kentucky blue grass, millet COM
mon, German and Pearl and Hungarian
grass. Timothy seed yielding twelve
bushels per acre from grass, the seed of
which was sownin August 1881. and which
contained heads ten inches in length
Cabbage weighing 2212 pounds, % varie-
ties of potatoes many of which have dug
400 bushels per aor root crops for
stock, beets and carrots and turnips of
enormous size. Wood samples with this
years growth of eleven feet. White ash
612 feet, this year. Seventy-fve samples
Of Minnesota woods, building stone. min
eral paints and cements. wild honey butter
and cheese. all neatly and carefully labeled
and arranged.
In the center of the room stands rus
tic Swiss cottage. the interior of which
contains terraced pyramid on which is dis
played 200 plates of fruit consisting of
200 plates of apples 60 varieties) grapes
and plums ali raised on the line of the
road.
COUNTY EXHIBITS.
Within the railroad building are sepa-
rate collections of exhibits made by differ
ent counties, agricultural societies of the
same general character and forming a
part of the whole.
LYON COUNTY
makes very notable displ ay, having this
year taken the first premium for the lar
gest and best display of grains,
first premium for largest and best display
Of vegetables. silver medal for five best
varieties OF spring wheat. In 1879 this
county took one first premium and one
second premium; 1880, two first premiums
1881 one hTst, one second and silver
medal.
March s, 1872, Minnesota State Butter
and Cheese association. first premium for
fifty pounds the best dairy butter. This
record speaks volumes for this county
which has contributed SO largely each year
to the railroad exhibit.
REDWOOD COUNTY.
The agricultural society. of this, county,
have taken through its officers very deep
interest and very active part in the ex-
hibition of the railroad land department.
Their individual display occupied two
the same character as described in the
general review of the building. This coun-
try is by no means, as may be supposed
bv some, a barren grasshopper region,
1t contains some of the choicest and most
fertile lands in the state, and offers splen-
did chances for the requirement of homes
and fortunes for the industrious poor.
The county carried three premiums for
Ilo4t ,,11,-
| worthily bestowed. Their samples of wheat
and oats were excellent, while in corn they
! take the cake. Charles Porter, of
Lamberton, sends a half dozen
samples of thoroughly ripe corn of
great perfection and excellence E. Beade.
of Walnut Grove, samples of Beauty of
Hebron potatoes that dug 400 bushels to
the acre. One sample of Red Chaff (blue
straw Canada wheat. which produced
eighty-four bushels from two bushels OF
seed shown by T. II. King, of Redwood
Falls, excited great comment. AS whole
the exhibit from this very fertile and pro.
ductive county has done wonders for it in
the way of advertising. Murray county
and the board of trade of Sleepy Eye vii
lage each make fine display.
The land grant lands of this road, EN-
ceptionally rich and valuable. One could
but note the difference between these land:
and those of the Red river valley as shown
by their exhibit of products
In this section. while the bes
wheat in the world can be grown there ca1
also be produced to the utmost perfection
that most essential grain to the raising o.
stock, Indian corn, which is unknown, al
most, in the northern sec ton. A diversi
fed farming there, extending through thu
entire range of agricultural products, ant
of stock growing and trying, has beer
demonstrated by this exhibit to be admira
bly, adapted to the section of countrl
traversed by the Winona & st. Peter rail
road, and so long as they offer, as now
their choice lands at from three to six dol
lars per acre. and on the most favorabl
terms, it only remains for the land-seeke
to come in and possess it. Too much prais
cannot be awarded Mr.. Whitney for his III
defatigueable zeal and pertinacious indus
try which has made railroad hall the cente
of attraction during the fair, and has don
so much for the future of the great cour
try along the Winona & St. Peter railroad
Premium, Horses.
Several of the EXTRA fine exhibits c
t blooded horses shown at the state fair ar
to go to the fairs at Hastings and Farg'
Among them is the premium string of NJ
John W. Ellsworth, of Dodgeville, low
county, Wis, importer and breeder {
: Normans and Clydesdales. M
l Ellsworth exhibited ten stallion
> at the state fair, securing three first pr
Il miums. At the head of the Norman stu
. is the famous winning stallion Mood
y Moody's color is white. He is years ol
and weighs 1,S06 pounds. To emphasiz
his beauty and magnificent proportions,
is only necessary to say that he has bee
It shown among the best of h
: class in the United States. taking thr,
q first premiums at the Illinois state fai
u one each at the Indiana, Iowa and Wisco1
3, sin fairs, two at the Minnesota fairs al
one at St. Louis, where the competitie
u was the sharpest ever seen in the. countr
e and at county fairs too numerous to me-
y ton, never failing to take first premiu
1. wherever exhibited.
n Mr.. Ellsworth's general purpose stallio
is O'Leary. a bay, half Norman and Mo
gan, five years old, and weighs 1,5(
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