The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1904-11-05
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM THE WORLDS FAIR.


ST.. LOUIS. Mo-, October 3lst, 1904.
Messrs. Editors The Burg Wagon Co., Of Bur-
lington. Iowa, has on exhibition in the Palace Of
Agriculture farm wagon. costing $1,000 to |
build, which they have donated to the Iowa Corn |
Growers Association, to be given to the person |
who exhibits the best 100 ears Of corn Of any |
variety. This is open to the world, so that Mary
land can enter the competition and carry OF the
grand champion sweepstakes for corn. The con- |
test takes place at the Agricultural College at |
Ames, Iowa, January PA. 1905. Full informa-
ton can be obtained by writing to the college.
One thousand dollars for one rooster seems like
an impossible price to get, yet George II. North
up, Of Raceville, N. Y, found man willing to
pay that price. 1t was rose-combed black
Minorca and was sold to G. II. F. Schrader, of
Berlin. Germany, in March of this year. With
it went some hens, he getting $4,000 for % birds
Mr.. Northup says that IL a greater price was ever
obtained for chickens in this or any other coun-
try he has never heard Of it. Many chickens are
here for which 500 and $500 is asked. Wander
bilt has bronze turkey gobbler valued at $500
which only captured fifth prize. the first prize
being won by o farmers daughter, Miss Jenny
Ferry, of Elsberry. No. 1t is fine bird and she
wants $500 orit. The poultry show is attracting
much attention, great crowds being in attend
ance daily. Many kinds of breeds are shown
some of which never saw or heard of before,
such as White Orpingt0ns, production of Ham
burgs, Dorkius and White Leehorns, the result
being extraordinary winter layers. The Faverol-
les recently introduced from France. are pro-
duction of crossing Houdan, Dorking Brahma
and Cochin, or Langshan, the result being breed
that mouths in July, begins laying in September
and lays until the following June. They have
heavy coats of feathers and are the warmest
clad of any fowl. Lakenvelders come from Hoi-
land and have white bodies with black necks and
tails. They are great foragers and will keep up
on half the food of other Breeds getting the rest
by bunting for IT, They are a 8s nor 1oF
sit around the front yard and porches, but hunt
their own feed during open weather. Pigeons
of all varieties are on exhibition. Some beauti-
full pheasants show the possibility of farmers
raising them, a fine bird for the table. There
are ducks and geese in large numbers and about
six different breeds of turkeys. Several Mary
landers exhibit chickens and pigeons. promi-
nent feature of the poultry show is the large
display of incubators and brooders. An attrac-s
ton among the incubators is seeing the chicks
coming out of the shells. By ''setting the eggs''
at the proper time they Matched last week To
set them thousand or so miles away and hatch
here is feat accomplished by wrapping them
being out of the incubator 48 hours.
The National Buttermakers' Association met
here last week and the report at its meeting was
that 1,500, 600 lbs. of butter was made in the
United States last year. If this was made up
into train loads, 10000 lbs. 90 tons) to each car
and the trains six miles apart, as is the usual
distance between trains, that the first car would
be entering Manila, the port of entry of the
Philippine Islands, by the time the last car left
the Fair grounds. A member" of the Butter
makers Association is Juliana de Kol, of Stock
ton, CAL, a Holston COW now nearly three years
old which holds the worlds record as two
year-old. At this age she made the following
record under the supervision of the California
State Experimental Station: Seven days, AT
lbs milk, 20 lbs. 9 OF. butter 80 days, 1852 lbs
milk, 81 lbs TX butter; 60days, 3512 lbs. milk
175 lbs. o. BUTTER 100 days, 5,s66 lbs milk. 1888
lbs. 13 OF. butter She is owned by the Pierce
Land Stock Co. and weighed not quite 900 lbs
at the commencement of the test, so that she
gave more than double her weight in milk in 90
days. A gallon of milk weighs aboutsH lbs. and
she averaged over gallons per day during the
entire 100 days.
The Oldest known bale of cotton in the world
is shown by Georgia in the Palace of Agricul-
ture. 1t is "a years old and was sent by G. G.
Jones, of West Point. Ga. photograph ac-
companies it, showing Mr.. Jones on top of it as
it was being hauled to the railroad station for
shipment to the Fair last spring; also the letter
he sent to the Georgia Commissioner in which
he asked if railroad pass could be gotten for
him should he want to visit the Fair. Mr.. Jones
did not get chance to come see his bale on ex-
hibition as he died soon after the Fair opened.
He was 81 years old. His administrator now
offers this old bale for sale. It is fine and white
and in as good condition as this years cotton,
Mr.. Charles e. Burton and his son Hammond,
of Baldwin, Baltimore county, Nd. are at the
Fair. Mr.. Burton came that his son might see .
the Fair and is so favorably impressed with the
greatness of it and of theedueatiehat featsreas
OvS1y nHoufu nave their chill
dren come; that they could not spend that
much money on their children to as good advan-
tage. A good many Marylanders are coming but
thousands more should come during November.
There is talk of the railroads cutting the fare In
half for the last two weeks of the Exposition
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