The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-30
be some disappointed men from Roch-
ester.
Cotton from Houston.

Houston county's pavilion is in
charge Of Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Murphy
Of Caledonia, who have been coming
to Hamline with a fine line of agrtcul-
tural products for five or six years.
Here one can find cotton and chest
nuts grown in Minnesota. wild gin
seng, okra, a long green pod said to
be good for soup, the Swiss chard or
silver et,which is said to be as dainty
as young asparagus, the DEVILS horn,
which is good for picking, lemon GU
cumbers, pomegranates, garden lem
ons, valuable for preserving or pick
ling, gAound cherries and their cousins
course everything else grown on a
farm. Houston county also grows
fruit, pretty and luscious, and to hear
the Murphys talk it Is the garden
spot of the state. At any rate Hous-
ton county comes very close to taking
down the high money year after
year, getting first prize now and then
| Norman County Grains.
The grains and grasses Of Norman
county, the sole representative of the
Red River valley, are shown In two
immense wheels or disks, about fif-
teen feet in diameter, on which the
samples are arranged in small sheaves.
| The wheels are kept revolving by a
rather unique power, which the man
ager o. A. TIL. Solem reveals upon
personal inquiry. Norman county
does not pretend to do much in the
fruit or fancy vegetable line, as its
farmers are largely devoted to wheat
and kindred crops. The products
that produce Drawn and muscle are
| the favorites in the valley and Mr..
solem therefore shows potatoes, no
less than sixty varieties, about tWen-
ty-fve varieties of grain, and grasses
both tame and wild in countless pro-
fusion. 1t produces fruit, however,
and while they are not as far adj
| vanced as the apples and plums of
the southern counties, the quality Is
said to be excellent, and horticulture
is constantly on the increase.
Renville's Absent Plums.
Renville county is represented by a
pretty exhibit with a quartet of pro-
moters consisting Of Hamlin V. Poore
and Joseph Haggett Of. Bird Island,
and Nels J. Holmberg and J. A. An
derson Of Renville. The county has
alsike clover standing almost as high
as a man, macaroni wheat IN perfect
condition when the ordinary wheat
in the same field was badly damaged
by rust, honey in large quantities and
good quality, and almost everything
found on the farm. The managers
of the exhibit had prepared to show q
| collection Of forty varieties of plums
grown in the county, but recent
hailstorm killed the plums and theil
plans.
Market Gardeners Showing.
The Minneapolis Market Gardeners
association and the St. Paul Growers
association each takes up twice
as much space as any one county
.{Ny1 f<
and na gives # daspii tRe rat time
THAT these associations have en-
tered, as there have. been no classes
in which they were eligible, but thu
managers have made a separate clas
for market gardeners and the twill
cities are already racing for hrs
money. :,
plays do not bewail the fact that the?
are so few. for the fewer there ar
B the greater their share Of the priz
! money, which is $1,000, together will
added money for design.
A Dutch Windmill.
Il The most striking feature Of tn
agricultural hall, next to the Minneap
oils Journal Newsboys' band, is tn
Dutch windmill, worked out in apple
and other fruit. The mill is abou
:. twenty feet high and attracts the at
tention of the blase folks Of the cite
as well as their relatives from tn
rural districts.
Mushroom Exhibit.
DR.. Mary S. MILESTONE presides owe
large table Of mushrooms and SINH
lar growths collected by the member
of the Theological societies OF tn
: state. The most striking specimen
a giant puffball which looks as BIZ
and heavy as sack Of flour.
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