The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-10

ed away for fair purposes. Everything
you see here is new and is provided
by mlself, Mr.. Storey and a few of
vs1r friends in Spalding. Notwith
standing the short time we had and our
inexperience in these matters, we are
pretty we'll satisfied with the results
of our work. We have got everything
here that grows out of the ground and
makes men and beasts fat"
Messrs. Walker and Storey proceeded
to give proof of this assertion by con-
Quoting a tour through their very ex-
tensive exhibit. Cotton is given u
prominent place, and seven select va
rieties are exhibited on the stalk, while
six bales of as many different varie-
ties are shown in marketable form
Sheetings, blankets and other products
of the Griffin mills are shown along
with the cotton. A fine lot of apples
of the Shockley and other varieties,
grown by S. w Waymen of Spalding.
is shown. 1t was stated that Mr. Way
man now has 1000 bushels of apples
on hand from this years crop, which
he will place on the market. The eX-
hibit of field peas is a splendid one,
thirty different varieties being shown,
several being fine table peas. The dis
play of corn and hay is something re-
markable in quantity, quality and va
riety. Several varieties of sorghum
and millet seed are shown.
A Pyramid of Flour.
A feature of the exhibit is a pyramid
of neatly sacked flour made from home
grown wheat and ground by Spalding
county roller mill. Another very pleas
ing feature is a representation of how
the Spaldng county farmer lives as
shown by his smokehouses and barns.
An open frame building represents the
smoke house and is thickly hung with
fine hams and middlings interspersed
with strings of sausages, while on the
floor are jars of picked beef and tripe
and other similar products. A pyramid
of corn tops the smokehouse. Near by
are two little barns filled to overflow
ing with corn a big "punkin' being
half buried in the top of each pile. On
a pole between the barns hangs the
odd niggers tobacco" the right to
tobacco patch being one of the cher
ished privileges of the old time darby.
Surrounding the barns are sacks of
wheat and oats and upland rice.
Several varieties of peanuts are
shown, one known as the California
red, having a large shell with three and
four kernels to the shell There are
twenty four varieties of sweet potatoes
and the South Georgia counties will
have to look out for their laurels in
this respect. Seventy-five or eighty
kinds of garden seed are shown, all
neatly arranged. One of the strong fea-
lures of the exhibit the splendid show
ing made in glass goods. Several
hundred jars and bottles set forth the
housewives art in preserves, pickles,
jellies, canned goods, wines and sauces.
There are fine brandy peaches, old
peach brandy as white as water, and
some fine peach and honey. Fine honey
in the comb and strained is shown
ready for marketing.
To name all the articles in the Spald-
ing exhibit would require too long a
list. Fine cabbages and magnificent
potatoes, onions and turnips ara
shown. There are hides and wool, but
ter, beeswax, tallow and mutton suet,
things too numerous to mention. In
fact survey of the exhibit fully justl-
fles the claim that Spalding produces
everything needed to make man and
beast fat.
The Commercial Exhibits.
There are many handsome CONNER
cial exhibits among them the South
ern Cotton Oil Company, the Armour
Fertilizer Company, the Savannah
Electrical Supply Company the
OIL lleSN lie buSSy dlopldys dIlu Ilulli-
bers of others. Several varieties of
fine cotton are being exhibited by their
promoters, among them Berry's Big
Boil cotton and George w. Truths Big
Boil cotton. 1t is claimed for each
of these that forty bolls make a pound,
and that they produce more luXuriant-
ly and a finer staple than the ordi-
nary upland cotton. The price asked
for the Berry cotton seed is $40 a
bushel.
One of the interesting exhibits is a
rice huller and cleaner by Houston &
Prevatt. This is simply a small mill
constructed entirely of iron, which it
is claimed will take the rough rice and
put il into marketable condition in one
operation. About 75h bushels can be
cleaned daily with the aid of a five
horse power engine. The small rice
growers are greatly interested in this
machine and exhibitions are to be given
for their benefit this week. Houston
& Prevatt also have roller cotton gin
on exhibition, which is claimed to
turn out the uSland staple as we'll as
the ordinary roller gin turns out the