The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1890-10-10
A SPLENDID DISPLAY.
BENTON COUNTY COMES CALAMITY To Tup
FRONT. THE EXHIBIT ADMIRED BY ALI.

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| FRONT. THE EXHIBIT ADMIRED BY ALL.
| The Oregonian Of Saturday comments a.
follows upon Benton county's exhibit at the
Northwestern exposition now being held in
| Portland:
Some one of the early pioneers who
brought with him ''the plains across" pleas.
ant memories Of the days when he wrestled
with moods, lenses, onjugations and de-
clenslons In the Latin tongue, having due
regard to the geographical position of Ben.
ton county, named its shire town Corvallis,
"rhe Heart of the Valley" The picturesque
title is not misplaced. Benton county com.
prises within its ample territorial area of
square miles practically every variety of
soil and climate known to the temperate
zone. While its peculiar physical con.
hguration makes the greater part of its
eastern portion more accessible to the sea
breezes than other localities in the valley,
they bring with them, not discomfort, but
''healing on their wings" and keep up
constant supply of ozone in the atmosphere.
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state, is feeling the impulse of the new and
active life which is manifestiug itself in
movements looking to the encouragement of
immigration in the shape of organizing
boards of trade, local and state, immigra-
tion societies, etc. Corvallis has a board of
| trade, the members of which sometime ago
| resolved to lend its valuable aid in the
direction of making the great Exposition Of
1890 a success from an agricultural and
horticultural standpoint at least. To this
end they authorized w. Fl. Hairless and
r. M. Davisson, the former president of the
Corvallis Board of Trade, to make collec-
tion of the grains, grasses, fruits and vege.
tables of the county and arrange them in
attractive form for inspection by visitors to
| the Exposition. And right we'll have these
| gentlemen performed their task. Tables
aggregating fifty feet in length and SO
arranged as to afford at least 200 feet of shelf
room, are piled high with luscious fruits,
toothsome vegetables and other products Of
farm and orchard.
1t is pleasant to note that among the
| twelve varieties of apples from Mackey's
farm near Toledo there is in neither of them
the slightest sign of damage, by Goblin
moth or other insect pest. 1t is not to be
| taken for granted, however, that the per-
manent exemtion of this particular locality
| from danger i'll this regard is an assured
fact. 1t would be very gratifying to know
| that such is the case. General Varney,
state inspector of fruit pests, whose atten-
tion was called to the fact, advised the
Benton county exhibitor to urge upon the
people to take all proper precautions in the
premises, and allow no old fruit boxes or
other possible transmitters of pests to enter
the charmed circle
The exhibit of pears In this section COM
prises thirteen varieties, many of them very
fine, but some OF them, unfortunately,
furnishing evidence, some of the apples
do, that the insect pest has been at work.
Hero is good place, again to urge upon
fruit.growers, the paramount Importance Of
giving their hearty cooperation to the
State Board of Horticulture in their already,
in many places, successful efforts to exter-
inmate the insect pests which have already
done so much harm in this state. Private
and public interests suggest such action.
Benton county also makes good display of
Italian, German, Silver and Hungarian
prunes, and six varieties of peaches, among
them Golden and Yellow clIngs.
Messrs Hairless and Davisson, the com
mittee met with cheerful cooperation in
LII fba ohor of
ton, among those contributing to the
dis play being Thomas and James Cooper,
Professor Tassel, E. G. Wyatt, Thomas
Harris William Mackey, Hugh Finlay and
others.
Another noticeable feature of this exhibit
is an extensive and attractive display Of
grains and grasses, which form an admra-
BILE letters of credit for the county addressed
to intending purchasers OF land who "want
their moneys worth" Among the minor
exhibits is the product of one hill of Kings
early potatoes weighing thirteen and one.
half pounds, raised by L. NJ. Harrison, To-
ledo; a fine pot of Seeding strawberries from
B. f. Hyland's farm; the premium squash,
l27 pounds, twenty-four inches in diameter,
from j. l.. L. Powell, Corvallis; wurtzels,
from James WILKINSON; rutabagas, i.
Hamer, Nashville; onions, Andrew Gelatley:
squashes. Charles Horner; watermelons,
Pete Record.
The Nashville apiaries, Nash & Sibrec.
have an interesting display of bees and
honey and Fred Bloomhart of glazing clay.
Apart from the exhibit made by the Cor
Wallis Board of Trade, Benton county is
most admirably shown up" by tho
managers of the State Agricultural collegs
experiment station. The most notable
feauturesef their exhibit consists of 425-
varieties of potatoes grown OH ! plot Of a
few acres.
What Benton county shows gives a fair.
but by nomeanscomplete no idea of the fertility
and fecundity of her soil and resources.
Her mines, forests and fisheries, aboupding
in all the elements of wealth and prosperity.
deserve, although they did not receive a full
representation at the great exposition. AS
the full scope and purpose of the founders
and promoters of this work come to be bet
ter understood by the people OF Oregon they
will see the immense benefit to be derived