The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-01
State Fair News
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Score of Counties Show the North
west What They Can Grow
to Advantage.
Fine Specimens of the Products Of
- the Best Farms on
=. Earth.

Almost score of the four score coun- |
ties OF the state are advertising for them |
selves by maintaining separate booths In |
the agricultural hall for the display Of
their products. These county exhibits are, |
as a rule, tastefully arranged and are
among the most interesting features of the
whole fair. They are particularly attrac-
tive to the visitors from the rural sec
lions. and when the latter find their home
county represented. they evince natural
and becoming local pride.
Renvllle countys Products.
Look Up" is the sign at the corner of
the Renville county BOOTH 1t Is hung
on some giant corn stalks which tower
up to the imposing height Of sixteen feet.
The county shows two-pound cabbages,
twenty pound melons and large musk
melons. which is very creditable for the
present season has been very unproms-
Ing and discouraging for vegetables.
There are more than thirty varieties OF
apples from this county, which has hth
erto not been known as fruit county.
Che exhibit Is in charge Of II. V. Poor
and N. g. Poor Of Bird Island. and G. A.
Anderson and j. N. FIolmberg Of Renville.
Atkins Sweeping Statement.
1--WE have everything that grows in the
state" says G. n. Howe of Aitkin, who
is In charge Of the Aitkin county booth.
and his statement Is borne out by the dis
Z play The county has always been strong
Oh grasses ana forage pants, ana SHOWS
| up very we'll this year. In vegeta bles
1 also the showing Is worthy Of comment.
| Near by is the private display Of D. G.
| Hazelton Of Cutler. Mimi, who shows
| what diversified farming means In Aitkin
! county.
Tobacco and Chestnuts.
Tobacco, chestnuts and other unusual
vegetable products are found in the Wa
j basha county booth, which is under the
! charge of Marion Dewitt. There are about
! 100 varieties of grasses. You can see
| for yourself what Wabasha county can
do" says Mr.. Dewitt, and the county
! appears to have everything connected with
the farm.
| Dakota county's Graft
1 Dakota county resources are explointed
! by 0. c. Thompson and w. l.. Parker Of
| Pennington. 1t is rich in fruit, there be-
ing fifty kinds Of apples shown. besides
quantities Of small frulit One Of the
| curiosities Of the booth is a natural
graft" which attracts much attention. 1t
started with a twig Of an ironwood tree
which branched out until it reached an
other ironwood tree a foot away, into
which the twig penetrated and secured q
good hold. The branch is now half an
inch in thickness and has made such a
perfect union that it is almost impossible
to detect from which tree it originally
grew.
Itasca's Vegetables.
Itasca Is the most northerly county In
the state, and one of the youngest; but
p. n. Remer of Grand Rapids Is showing
the rest OF the state that the county has
great agricultural possibilities. Every
thing grown, from grass to fruit, is raised,
and it's vegetables are fine. The carrots
| ond radishes are plump and pretty that
they look almost like fruit. That the
county will be in the front rank in
y agriculture is shown by the big tide Of
colonsts pouring In. The farming popu-
lation of the county has doubled in the
past year alone.
The Apple County.
| Olnsted county grows peaches. and
pears, and pums as big as apples. It's
booth is in charge Of c. G. Gray, Louis
Anderson and R. c. Keel Of Rochester.
Moreover, the county produces over loo
varieties Of apples, ninety-two kinds OF
grasses and all imaginable kinds Of vege-
tables. sleek, fat, white cucumbers, leeks
that would tempt the most fastid1ous Ro-
man citizen, and many other products OF
the soil.
Stevens county is one Of the divisions
of the state, with enterprise enough tC
make a separate exhibit at the big fair
1t is in the display presided over by D
Wheaton of Morris, who Is willing to pi
the Stevens county products against those
of any other county. The county shows
up very we'll as to tame and native grasse
and corn.sa
Great Loaves OF Bread.
Norman county attracts attention b,
two giant loaves Of bread, each one owe
four feet high and foot wide, and weigh
Ing twenty-five or thirty pounds each
There Is tobacco with leaves over eigh
teen inches across; winter rye, six fee
high; twelve foot broom corn, and othe
things: six kinds Of wheat, three of bar
| ley, nine Of corn, and four of oats; hg
bush oranberries and grasses almost with
out end. o. A. TIL. Solem Of Halstead con
arols the display.
Blue Earth's Corn.
One Of the most interesting Of display
Is that made by Blue Earth county, whic
has sent w. J. McDuffee and T. F. Jus
of Rapidan to represent It's advantages
The corn display Is excellent. both as
dent and flint corns. The black Mexica
sweet corn Is not appetizing to look a
but Is said to be very toothsome. Her
are shown black winter radishes, wal
Tanted to keep until spring, a curious vir
with red pods like gay Japanese lantern
ground cherries, which make very fir
preserves, garlic and many curious ar
valuable products. Here are show
eighty-four kinds of wild grasses twenty
two kinds Of forage plants and twent
tame grasses.
PITTsBURG FOODS "DoPED."
Pittsburg, Sept. 1.--Dr. e. G. Matson. eli
bacteriologist, says that large quantities