The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-08-19
SEEING THE FAIR
In DETAIL

Oyster Farms Of Virginia and Their
Wonderful Produets-A Huge Wild
Duck Waiting to Be Named-6atsle
With Mice - Denizens Of Virginia
Forests-Huee Fish From the Old
Dominion Coast = Virginia Woods.
Nature as an Artist-Picturee IN the
Grain Of California Woods - Nine.
MeIba Peculiarly Favored-Lessons
in Forestry FOR Any Who May Wish
TO study--A Grand Picture Arcade
Of Forests and Mountains.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE BY
MARK BENNIrT1
II takes two years to grow an oyster
that you can gulp down with express
sions Of delicious satisfaction in two
seconds. Virginia extols her oysters
at the worlds fair To most people
oysters are just oysters-fresh, medi-
OGRE and too long out Of the water or
off the Ice. But in Virginia oysters are
known by their habitat or the com
pany they keep. Water is to the oyster
what soil is to fruit-it makes the quail
ity. From Mobjack bay comes sweet |
and luscious bivalve that has particu-
lar favor and favor. York river, Severn
river. Elizabeth river. Carriers creek,
I.ynnhaven. James river. Broad bay
and Hampton Roads are all trade
names in Virginia oysterdom.
Virginia has spent $4,000 making
J models Of her oysters, big and little,
and representing the product Of every
rivers mouth. bay, bayou and sound
along her oyster strewn coast. The min
, ute YOU begin to ask questions ~ the
virginia exhibit you plunge into new
! realm Of thought and discover world
! Of commercial activity Of which per
hans YOU may never have heard.
! Waiting identification IS one mag
. nlficent specimen Of wild duck IN the
virginia exhibit, Palace Of Forestry,
Fish ana Game 1t resembles q mallard
q in its markings. but is twice as large.
4 Two of them we're captured at Virginia
+ Beach. on the back bay, and to date
they are new specimens in bird lore.
i The Smithsonian institution at Wash
y ington has one Of the pair undergoing
ii study. and the other Is at the worlds
&c fair for sportsmen to see and admire
ef 4 Wild duck III all its characteristics
ed but as large as a goose.
~ ooh, there's Hampton Roads Wner'
1T the battle Of Gettysburg was fought
lst said one lady as she looked at the grea
painting above the Virginia exhibit
But. then. one can't know everything
and raise family Of children to he'll
tiy keep the world humming and to hgh
~ the nations battles in times Of stres
'ne and trouble.
he The battle is on in the Virginia ex
ne hibit. All along the holdings in th
nd upper part Of the display may pc seei
Pc ilttle portholes from which the enem.
Il doing its mischief The enemy IS a.
lde army of mice which is eating the ric
not and other decorations, and sad hayo
Of they are making. Traps are ~ y
md demand. and every catch Is fat one
I'M The wild animals and game birds 9
rs Virginia make many sportsman ma
My a his mad rush to do the fair In
oke week The black bear. the lynx, dee
rly gray fox. coon, eagle, big blue herol
of English pheasants and bobwhites z
ian dwell together In harmony, ior the
oil are stuffed. and stuffing is an antioch
Iool for auarrelsomeness.
md The Jewish rarely gets into virgin
ow- waters. Only three OF them are KNOW
70 have been caught in a hundre
hey wears. and that experience would u
the patience OF any fisherman. NuI
wer her three Is the one you see here. AZ
poetic porpoise, whose only purpo
the seems 20 be to have jolly time as
bet rolls through his ocean life ana
ball death Ia be skinned for razor stro
and shoe strings, is one Of the star =
lures Of this fish display. Virgin
the mother of presidents, mothers
wo- great many other ornamental ana y
Nai. full quantities.
lend Won get into the Virginia woo
Not whirhever way you go, and you
E In loath to get out Of them. In the W
She and are things Of wood IN a thousa
ould forms. from machines that do the "a
dis Nv washing or the days churning "
she the pressure Of the little finger to
sui array of clothespins that look hke
9. aurora borealis In the east end
more the natural specimens-an arboret
chopped down and sawed up ny
come useful wood Of Virginia has recoe
lion. and to cali attention to one q
my greatest sons Jefferson, the trees
the the forest have spelled his name u
1t is as cut from the trees with 2
all on.
4 !. "stop and register! Stop ana see
z lures art gallery cried a voice
Aus voice Of a man of middle years ski
In woodcraft and in love with the 81
soIitudes OF the forest depths
- voice came from the California exh
was glad that stopped for
- are curious things enough TO sto'
museum. Mr.. Thomas Hatch will
Won d portrait OF Mime Melba deliea
I I tbiss done BY nature In walnut grain a