The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-07

consists of a house walled and rooted
With grain produced in the county.
Anoka county is raising million ana
half crop of potatoes this year, ana d
large amount of the crop has ALREADY
been marketed In siXty-eight days
after planting the farmers are market
ing their crop, receiving the advantage
OF an early market.
AnOka. Mimi, has several mills Tor
the manufacture of starch from pola-
toes, and from that source the farmers
receive a market for their crop WIN
out having to ship thelr potatoes
abroad and take a reduced figure on
account Of high freight rates. one sam
pie Of potatoes shows where eighteen
POTATOES Of large size were grown IN
one hill, and the yield in some localities
has been as high as 800 bushels per
acre, and the average has been about
$50 bushels to the acre. Ten thousand
bushels of potatoes are being used in
the manufacture Of starch at AnoKa
every day, and the quality of the po-
tatoes command a ready market at the
Twin Cities, where hundreds of car
loads are sold every year, In addition
to the home factory consumption,
one corner of the exhibit is enclosed
with a luXuriant, tropical growth OF
sunfloWers grown in the jurgles or
Anoka county. The stalk of these
flowers is as big as a banana plant
and the flower is as large as dlshpah'
These plants were one of the dlstlnc-
tive features Of the exhibit, although
having no particular commercial value.
\ large display of celery is included
in the exhibits, and this is being quite
generally raised with profit on the low
lands of the county. Ambitious stalks
of corn Of telegraph pole proportions,
and rye five feet high keeps company
with the sunfOwers, all lending to the
effect Of the exhibit.
A large mat, made from wire grass
grown in the county, Is displayed. the
recent establishment of a factory in st.
Paul for the manufacture of these mats
out Of wire grass will greatly enhance
its value. The threshed cereals are or
fine quality. Rye, wheat, barley, oats
and flax all bring the top Of the mar
ket, and are sold to the very best mill
ing and feed trade.
CLAY COUNTY.
The Clay county exhibit covers, per-
haps, as much space Is any on the floor
and is somewhat different in arrange
ment from the other county exhibits.
Just to the left of the entrance it oc-
CUpies quite a large frontage, and its
distinctive feature on one side Of the
aisle is the prOfuse distribution of ce-
reals in the bundle, Just as they were
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side all the products of the Red River
valley, from a squash to millett seed,
are arranged on the graduated terrace,
and in the background is situated
large wall upon which designs of pleas
ing arrangement are effected With the
use of vegetables and cereals. Once
State Senator r. NJ. Probstfleld, j. NJ.
Baer and J. n. Dahlby are in charge
of the exhibit, and have been hard at
work since Sunday in getting the dis
play in shape for public inspection.
How well they have succeeded can best
be Judged by viewing the large variety
and tasteful arrangement Of the eXhib-
it, which is a most creditable one. a
large number of samples Of threshed
wheat and other cereals are on exhibit
ton. One Of wheat grown on Senator
PrObsttields farm weighs siXty-tWo
pounds to the bushel and went forty
bushels to the acre. This, 1t is said, Is
only one evidence Of the Clay county
wheat yield. The senator had 100 acres
under cultivation, ana threshed 1000
bushels from the tract recently. Blue
stem and Scotch fife seem to thrive the
best in Clay county, and the product is
only the best of its kind.
The flax shown in the exhibit ranks
among the finest on the floor. Much at
tention is being given this product, as
It can be readily marketed, a short
haul to Fargo delivering it to a flax
mill at that place which uses 800 bush
els every twenty -four hours.
STEELE COUNTY.
Steele county brought nearly a car
load Of the choicest products of the
fertile Southern Minnesota county, and
despite the assertion which has been
frequently made that the county WAS
strictly a dairying county. the agricul-
tural display at the fan. from that
county ranks among the first on exhi-
bitiOn.
The display is in charge of ]. Frank
Dean, J. A. Harris, J. 3. Taylor,
Willius Chamber and O. y. Selleck.
Some of the squashes and other field
products exhibited are giants of their
kind, and the sugar beets, some Of
them, are old enough to vote. The
display Of apples from this county in
cludes SEQ varieties, and some Of the
more strictly Minnesota varieties Of
the frui5 are very much in evidence.
The more hardy apples, such as the
Wealthy and Duchess, have been
greatly improved since last year, and
their practicability as a fruit crop in
nearly every section of the state has
become we'll established by the long
and Untring experiments Of Southern
Minnesota hOrtculturalists. The cOun-
~ exhibit surrounds a small cottage
and is feStOOned over the walls, roof
anu interior, giving a pleasing erect.
Among the field exhibits is a large dis
play Of winter black crooked neck
squash, which is an entirely new va
rety for this state and has proved
quite popular where it has been intro
duCed in Steele county.
Thirty-siX varieties Of crabapples are
displayed on a little graduated terrace
a the end Of the main exhibit, some
Of them almost as large as the ordi-
nary species Of apple. High bush cram
berries, which grow wild in some parts
Of Southern Minnesota, have been do
mesticated in Steele county, and some
fine specimens are displayed in the ex-
hibit.
Considerable attention is being given
grape culture, and a half-dOzen va
rieties were shown, which easily rival
any of the imported fruit marketed in