The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-08
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squashes, cabbage, beans and mangles are
of good development.
ANOKA COUNTY
The display of Anoka county is arranged in
a manner TO prominently show one of its
chief products, potatoes, and a potato pal
ace' shelters the exhibit. 1t is pagoda-
shaped structure, with roof and sides covered
with twenty-siX varieties of potatoes, with in
terlacingS of grasses and grains, presenting
an unusually attractive display. About the
building is a niniture lawn of green grass
and flowers. The exhibit is artistic in design,
arranged with painstaking care, that ma
turally Anoka county furnishes one of the
best displays on the floor. Anoka county
claims the distinction of being the banner
potato county of the state, and Thomas Cole
man, of Fridiey, and Frank Hart, who have
charge of the exhibit inform visitors that
tie yearly yield of tubers for the past ten
years has been ], 600, 900 bushels The county
has three starch factories which reduce 5000
bushes of potatoes daily when in operation.
In tiers about the palace" is diversified
exhibit of vegetables fruits, grains and grass
"as good as be raised any place in the
state There is splendid fruit, consisting of
apples, grapes, various hybrids and large,
firm cranberries, while luscious strawberries
of second crop are shown just as picked
from the vines White dent corn which
grows eight feet high and produces plump
yellow ears thirteen inches long, is d feature
of the display. There Is good specimen OF
tobacco and mliet that runs four tons to the
acre. Anoka and Isanti county are hot rivals
for the honors in potato raising, and the
awards will doubtless see these two counties
graded close together on this product Wheat
is now being more extensively raised in the
county, and excellent grades are shown
which yield a large acreage.
STEVENS COUNTY.
Stevens county lays just claim to being the
most persistent exhibitor IN the county COM
petition, having sent display to the fair
for the past five years. The one this year is
in charge of D. T. Wheaton, of Morris, and
consists chiefly of many varieties of grasses
and cereals though there is a large show of
fruit, consisting of twenty-five kinds OF ap-
pies, twelve varieties of plums and grapes:
The tame grasses are timothy, clover, red
top and blue joint the latter reaching the
height of eight feet. Of wild grasses there
are twenty-five kinds. The wheat shown is
of splendid growth, with large kernels and
full heads and runs fifteen bushels to the
acre In the vegetable line twenty kinds
of potatoes forty varieties of beans, onions,
squashes, pumpkins and sugar beets. Some
of this years corn, already rlpened, is a
priced feature of the display.
WRIGHT COUNTY.
Wright county makes a small display, the
idea being to show the products of the coun-
exhibit will undoubtedly rank well in many
products particularly in corn, OF which
Wright county shows, perhaps, the best in
the building of this years crop. There are
me vegetables, DSduS, CuCullipois tWO ieOt
long. potatoes, squashes and sugar beets,
while nineteen varieties of grasses are
feature.
.. PINE COUNTY.
The exhibit of Pine county excellently
shows the resources of that section, being
chiefly of wheat, corn, oats, grasses and fine
root products. The display is small, but all
selected 1t is the hope OF Pine county TO
some day be recognized as the dairy. center
of the state and this end Is prophesied owing
Beautiful timothy, five and one-half feet high,
is exhibited, while blue joint grass of kind
that runs three tons to the acre shows the
fertility of the SOIL Wheat is a strong product
of Pine county also, and though this is re-
garded as an off year, runs from sixteen to
twenty bushels to the acre. In the display
are sheafs of OATS sown last May, which have
well filed heads ten inches long. An interest
ing exhibit is specimens of each of three crops