The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-08

There are ten counties entered in the
competition this year, for the most
part those of younger history than
many with regulations already estao-
lished, but this fact rather adds to
than detracts from the fine displays
and keen rivalry. prize OF $l,200
will be divided among the successful
counties, and special prizes of 500 are
offered for individual exhibits, OF
which there are several Of unusual eX-
cellence.
The marking on the agricultural ex-
hibits will be on wheat, corn, oats,
barley, flax, rye, grains in sheat, 1aX
fiber, sugar beets and sorghum cane
combined, fifty points on flax, twenty
five on sugar beets and twenty-five or
sorghum cane; native grasses, tame
grasses grape sorghum and other for
age plants; potatoes, ten varieties;
stock vegetables and peas; culinary
vegetables: fruits, miscellaneous;
greatest number of varieties. design
and taste in arrangement. Eighteen
points will be used in the scoring. The
percentage will be derived by adding
all of the points gained and dividing
this amount by eighteen, the basis of
the exhibit marking.
The Judges in the department of
county displays were selected yester-
day and will begin work this morning
They are Warren Potter, of Altklh
county; ". Philly, of Lac Que Parie'
and E. S. Wade, of Martin county
OTTER TAIL COUNTY.
The county displays occupy the space be-
meath the grand stand formerly constituting
the betting ring and beyond question the ex
hibit of Otter Tail county Is one of the most
comprehensive in competition. 1t contains
articles showing the county resources, from
kernels of wheat to huge Hubbard squashes,
and from rolls of creamery butter to forty
three bots of cloth manufactured at the Fer
gus Falls Wooden mills. The arrangement OF
the display is tasteful. large pyramid table
in the center contains IA varieties OF grams
and seeds raised in the county. quart of
each specimen is enclosed in bottles, max
ing inspection easy and the general effect
unique. On sloping shelves are arranged IN
profusion garden Vegetables of every variety,
showing Clearly the diversified possibilities
of the county. Prominent in the display are a
number of fine specimen of sugar beets There
are sixteen varieties of potatoes, large and
well grown, and cucumbers, onions cabbages,
beets, turnips, parsley, pumpkins. mangles:
celery, turnips, and in fact, profusion 81
table vegetables of almost every variety
grown anywhere in the state. While the
cereal display of grain kernels is excellent IN
itself, wheat, oats and barley are also SHOWN
in sheafs of remarkable growth. Inc corn
exhibited is of prodigious development, the
stalks growing sixteen feet high and bending
with full ripe ears of the golden Dent variety.
Corn raising is yearly becoming more gen.
eral in Otter Tail county. as it is impressed
upon the farmers that as good an article can
be produced here as anywhere else in the
state. The county boasts of buckwheat aver
aging forty bushels to the acre, and fax run
ng vs bs e Sspay q gfass5s + e soOd b be
ing Of seven varieties of which one is
specimen of a second crop of mammoth clover.
As to fruit, the county has four kinds of ap-
nles and several varieties of plums and grapes
Tbe creamery interests of the county are
shown ns by a nice displa. of butter in rolls
and frkins, and five varieties of cheese; while
the manufacturing resources are evidenced
bolts of cloth from the Fergus Falls Wooden
mills. The county takes great pride, IN the
aforementioned display, as it yeritabiy Typ,
ON Minnesota sheep in the exhibiting county.
The display is in charge of w. L. Chappen,
of Fergus Falls, who is ever ready to explain
the resources of his county , 10 VISITORS.
St. Louis county has another OF the largest