The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-07-30
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM THE WORLDS FAIR.
ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, July 18th. 1904.

Messrs. Editors The north end of the Palace
Of Agriculture is devoted to foreign exhibits,
among them being Egypt. Here the sugar. cot
ton and grain are shown and it is a very good
exhibit. Looking at this display takes one back
In memory to the time when God delivered the
children o. Israel out of the land of Egypt.
Never before has there been such complete
together of the nations of the earth
as at this Exposition, and you have chance
here to study all nations, their habits. customs
and resources. Expressions of wonder and as
constituent from the visitors can be heard at
any time if you ask them what they think of it,
1t has not been properly advertised in the East.
The bill posters met here recently and seeing the
magnitude of the Exposition offered 100000
miles of bill boards. which will be covered with
posters about August lst. A concerted action
is being taken to reach the people through the
urging them to come.
The state exhibits are in the centre of this
greatest of all buildings and clearly shows that
agriculture is the leading industry of the world.
Illinois shows what can be done with corn in
increasing its value. A series OF tests was
made by the Illinois Agricultural College from
1895 to 1903 to increase the protein and oil in
corn. The average of protein in 1895 was 1O.Y2
per cent. BY selecting corn for seed each year
with the largest amount of protein they increas-
ed it to 1904 per cent. By selecting those poor
in protein it decreased to s.62 per cent in 1903.
1t reached 1412 per cent. in 1901, there being
scarcity of rain that year; a dry season putting
more protein in the grain than wet season. In
like manner the oil in the corn was increased
from 47O per cent in 1896 to 653 per cent in 1903
This increase is made possible by selecting seed
corn that has the least starch in it. This Is as
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wise. The white you see is the starch. Select
those showing very little white. The hard part
of the head of the grain is the protein. Those.
containing less starch contain more protein and
more oil. Exhibits also show that bushel Of
corn, normal, contains carlo hydrates, S0.35 per
cent; protein, 1882 per cent. oil, 40 per cents
fibre, 260 per cent. ash, 143 per cent; total, 100
per cent. Two ears of corn looking alike wore
planted. One yielded SO lbs. ears and the otaer
4OK lbs. Thirty products of corn are exhibited.
1t will pay any farmer to come here and harm
how he can increase his corn crop, for if hewill
apply the knowledge gained he would soon make
more than the trip cost him in the increasedyield
of corn.
Five large pictures, made of seeds not celored,
represent Abraham Lincoln, Gov. Yates, the
State Seal Of Illinois, Coming Thro' tie Rye"
and "a Winter Morning Scene"
The most prominent is an exhibit of corn on
two large pyramids. raised by 5000 boys, rang
ing in age from IL to 20 years, sons Of Illinois
farmers. Mr.. Will B. Orwell. of Carlhville, ILL.,,
who is connected with the Farmers' Institute
work of that State, collected $4,000 donated by
different ones, which will be distributed after
the fair to the successful boys who raised the
best corn last year from the so grains of corn
given them. Five hundred dollsrs is the first
prize and from that down to so cents. Some
thing like that would help keep the Maryland
boys on the farm. Ten ears of corn were sent in
by each boy. White corn must have white cob
and yellow red cob, is one of the rules for per-
feet corn.
Indiana shows five ears of yellow corn, grown
by Samuel Lyon, of Frankfort, which is "a years
old five ears grown by L. J. Pence in 1884, and
a stalk of corn grown by Asa Dutton in 1927. Mr..
Pence is now rs years old and recently he and
Mrs. Pence celebrated their golden wedding
He still has-well preserved-his wedding suit
Mr.. L. B. Clore, of Franklin, Ind, who is superin-
tendent of the exhibit, shows some fine white
seed corn, this being speciality with him on his
farm.
The butter department in the Palace of Agri-
culture is shown in the big refrigerator, cover
ing large space. Here Illinois shows busts in
butter of Presidents Lincoln and Grant, who
were natives of that State; also statue of a
typical dairy maid holding the coat of arms in
her left hand and streamer in her right hand
with the word Illinois on it. Many other statues
in butter are exhibited by other states, one
showing the maid as she is milking, feeding
pussy who sits and drinks the milk, the stream
of milk being visible. A 30-lb. tub of butter
shows composition to be butter fat, "a 7S6-10OO
lbs; water, 35O-10OO lbs; caseine and albumen,
1A-1OOO lbs milk sugar and Tactic acid, l20- 1000
lbs, ash and salt, 10 lbs.
Pennsylvania exhibits wool II inches long, a
case containing stuffed animals and birds, and
also shows the mole in his burrow as well as
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world, growing so per cent. of all the peanuts,
Norfolk being the great peanut centre. That
State claims to be the greatest truck producing
state of the Union, which is certainly carried on
to great extent around Norfolk.
Kansas claims to be the banner wheat state
and carries off the palm for high grass, having a
stalk of joint grass ~ feet long. The Agricnl-
tural College of Kansas shows two bills of corn
with roots from to feet in length in 120 days
growth oats feet high in 103 days; native blue
grass feet; alfalfa, years old, feet; alfalfa,
10 years old, with roots threequarters of an inch
in diameter. They raise immense quantities of
Kafr corn. The seed is used for poultry and
flour and looks like sorghum or brown cornseed.
Mississippi leads in cowpeas and cotton, so far
as value per acre is concerned. but Texas leads
in acreage devoted to cotton. Mississippi has
twenty varieties of cowpeas. The vines are
used for feed the same hay, and for fertilizing
the ground. The peas are used for food for both
stock and people. They like them better than
sissippi, which is but two years old. It is Melt
lotus honey. A species of clover called by that
name is planted and the bees extract the honey
from the first crop of blossoms. The clover is
then cut for hay. Two and sometimes three
crops are obtained per year, SO that it is pay
ing industry, the honey alone that is obtained by
the bees from each acre being worth about $40.
Georgia shows Sc varieties of hay. Crab grass
is the native hay and stock will leave grain and
other hay to eat it. A fountain of oil is shown,
which is made from cotton seed.
Arkansas pronounced Arkansaw, with the
accent on the last syllable, the pronunciation of
which has been legalized by the Legislature)
shows the biggest stalks of corn, from Is TO 20
feet high and inches in circumference, with
ears within feet of the top. don't believe the
corn harvester would shock it.
Truly wonderful are the many exhibits to be
seen, so that taking it as a whole it is worth the
trip here to see the Palace of Agriculture.
A number of Maryland people are registered
daily at the Maryland exhibit. On Saturday we
had visit from Mr.. G. G. Carman, of Taylor,
Hartford county. Mr.. w. Fl. Gorsuch and Misses
Emma and Laura Gorsuch, of Baltimore, brother
and sisters of DIR. j. f. H. Gorsuch, of Fork, Bal
timore county, were at the Palace of Agricul-
ture and were charmed at what they saw They
are visiting their sister, Mrs. Clara Addington,
of st. Louis.
A gentleman from Arkansas told me Saturday
that his two children wanted to go to college but
did not want to come here, fearing his money
would not hold out to send them to college,. He
finds this such an educational centre that he
says he is going TO tell them that they have got
to come here first if they want to attend college.
W.H.R.
President Roosevelt's Speech.
Baltimore Herald.
1t is an unusual compliment to President
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