The Newtown bee., 1901-09-13

of China painting. Mrs w. H. Percy
 had a case nearly filled with samples of
 China painting. She certainly has
 marked talent in this direction.
 The floral department was not as full
 as THE BEE man would like to see it,
 and the ladies should endeavor to stim-
 ulate effort in this direction. Mrs
 Andrew Clark had some choice asters
 and the coxcombs exhibited by Mrs E.
 Randall were of rich coloring and took
 the prize. There were also some
 gladiolas and other flowers. At the
 north end of the hall were some bril- liant sunf1owers.
 AND THEN TO THINK OF THE CAKE, 20 varieties! The writer only sampled one kind, although kindly offered a
 selection from a number of tempting
 cakes. It was angel cake, as light as
 feather and as tempting to the taste
 as it possibly could be. New Milford
 young ladies, and the, matrons, too, excel as cake makers.
 iC OCpdl "do NClJ creditable and included sofa pillows, center pieces, knitted work and paint ing. A sofa pillow, the work of Miss Gertrude Riddiford, was of very taste full design, and did her credit, as this was the first piece of this kind she had attempted.
 THE EXHIBITION OF POULTRY was a lamentable failure, only about l2 cOOps being exhibited all told. K. A. Warner showed some choice Plymouth Rocks and extra choice Games of diff ferent breeds. The poultrymen of the town ought to rally to the support of the fair.
 The enterprising D. F. Callahan with his two happy families of dogs, a pointer with nine puppies and fox terrier with some fine puppies attract of Danbury also had nice exhib bition of dogs.
 It is hardly necessary to state that it has been a poor season for fruit and and it was not to be expect ed the exhibits on these lines would be equal to other years. However,, THE DISPLAY WAS VERY CREDITABLE, the quality being high all things con- Sidered. The largest exhibit was that )f c. R. c. Masten of Washington Hollow, N. Y., who has a fruit farm of 300 acres. He had a good showing of grapes, 15 varieties of pears, eight of plums and six of peaches George A. Barnes exhibited B varie- ties of apples, having some extra good Baldwins and Russian apples. Mir Barnes rather carried off the honors on pears with his IS varieties, which were superior to those imported from York state. He had four varieties of grapes, four of plums and three of peaches. He also showed some extra fine looking potatoes and some premi- um watermelonS and tomatoes.
 Representative H. L. Wanzer show ed 12 varieties of potatoes, the varie- ties being: White Star, White Beauty, Early Rose, Early Essex, Early Beau ty of Hebron, New Queen, Rural New Yorker, No. ?, Maule's Early Thor .Genessee Valley, St Pat rick, American Wonder and Bovee. The quality was fine for the year and MT Wanzer got numerous premiums. He showed seven varieties of apples, as follows: Golden Reds, Gillytlower, Marigold, Newtown Pippin, Roxbury Russett, Philadelph phia Sweets and Jer- Sey Sweets.
 A. e.. Barnes of BOardman rather swept the deck with his peaches, hay ing 12 varieties, and two of plums. R. J. Hungerford of Millerton, N. Y., ex- hibited eight varieties of pears and seven of peaches. Mark Hatch exhib- tied 20 varieties of apples. F. D. Will Hams showed several kinds of corn, and had some stalks of field corn in the tent measuring 14 feet. R. c. Mallory exhibited rye and wheat and V. M. Knapp wheat. c. l.. SpOOner had several varieties of sweet corn. Andrew Clark exhibited long red beets and corn. Messrs Barnes and Wanzer are certainly worthy of high credit in helping so nobly in keeping up this end of the fair.