Evening journal., 1893-09-13
GALA DAY AT. DOVER.
The Fair Opens With an Un-
usually Large Attendance.
EXHIBITS IN FINE CONDITION

Were Out in Force-Fine Display In the
women's Department-e,5O 500 votes
Polled in the School Teachers Contest.
staf Correspondence Evening Journal.
DOVER. Sept. 13.-The Delaware State
Fair opened yesterday with the biggest
hrst day crowd Dover ever ,saw. Fully
1000 people went through the gates and
into the arena Of fast horses, dogs,
chickens, pigs, cows. flowers, fruit,
fancy work, side shows and peanut
taify.
Il was ohildren's day, too, and num-
bers Of bright-faced lads and lassies were
here taking in the sights aud having
good time generally.
The departments are all unusually
well filed. The vegetables and grain
exhibit is large, as is also the fruit.
There was drouth this summer.
Everybody knows that, but everybody
does not know that while some parts Of
| Kent county had no rain from May until
august the quantity of fruit shown Is
much larger than last year, while the
| quality OF the fruit is fully equal to the
display OF 1892. Strange to say the parts
OF the county where the drouth was
most severe has produced the best
watermelons.
The peaches and plunH. particularly
the latter, look especially well, and the
crop Of plums, usually preoaiious one,
Is hrst-class. A prominent Kent county
grower draws a useful lesson from these
facts. He says one OF the enemies Of
fruit is the curculio insect, which exists
In several varieties and sizes and is the
particular enemy or plums Il burrows
into fruit with its proboscis and deposits
an egg, which matches out a destructive
worm.
Cold weather and wet weather are
against the curculio. but Il hourishes so
In warm weather that wet weather fails
TO exterminate it. Now, while this has
been a season Of dry, warm weather, it
has also been season Of storms, and he be.
lieves that these disturbances have shaken
them from the trees. to the relief Of the
fruit
This busy insect produces two crops a
year, which never fail, and tbs curcuio
could get up pretty good fair itself
with half chance, for when it fails 70
find fruit it burrows in twigs Of white
oak. The supposed benefit OF the storms
in affording relief calls to the growers
mind the systematic method of getting
rid Of tile pest in the great plum or
chards Of Illinois. where the trees are
struck with mallet, thus shaking down
the insects, which are caught upor
J sheets stretched ou bars They are
q then destroyed. This system 10 would
be well to follow in Delaware which {.
so well suited TO fruit production.
No fair In this county could be com
plete without exhibits of hay
The farmer usually cuts his timothy foi
market when IL is nearly ripe. The city
D horseman depends upon grain e
strengthen his stock, aud it is thought
q better to use it thus as necessary par
of the animals food The farmer cut,
his timothy when in bloom for home use
D thus getting the hay at its most palat-
able stage, as he feeds more hay than thl
e city man Less clover is sent to market
. than is used at home, because while
. desirable feed, it is brittle and loses II
handling, though many bales Of the twl
grasses mixed are shipped. On the whole
the hay trade is an immense considera
|, tion,
From the hay, as indicating vas
T interest, there IS but step q
4 the question of live stock. Tn
present is the largest exhibit o
, horses ever made at Dover. Stock breed
ing in Delaware and the neig hborinl
D counties of Pennsylvania and Marylan
e is shown to be on the rise, and th
farmers propose TO put their feed pro
ducts TO the best use at home.
The races were viewed by most of tn
people present and good time was mad
in all the classes:
k Fascination, DR.. j. c. McC0g's ba
gelding, broke the track record Of 81
by going a mile in 2 BOT
The three minute class race for
i purse Of $400 was won by L. Red
mond's Grover s. in three straigh
d heats.
l. The yesrling race was won in tw
straight heats by q. A. Millington'
Vic Wood. This was half mile race
This 222 class race for a purse O
IS $500 was won by Dr. J. c. Mccoy
+ Fascination in three straight heats.
u The ? 90 class race for q purse of $40
was won in three straight heats
Henry buttons Sampson
e The summary of the races follows
70 YEARLING CLASS, PURSE, 500.
vic Wood, b I, G. A. Alillington ..........1