Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-09-08
Maryland Agricultural Exhibit

The Maryland Agricultural Exhibit at the
Worlds Fair occupies block as on the south
east side of the Agricultural Palace, and in
dimentions is 00x2O feet.
Mr.. VIM L. Amoss, a farmer at Benson.
Hartford county, and director of the Farmers
Institutes, department of the Maryland
Agricultural College, was through the cour
tesy of its trustees, placed In charge TO org
anize and collect products for exhibition.
Every assistance possible was given by the
president. director and faculty of both Col
lege and Experiment Station, where the pro-
ducts were received and stored, Prof. w. T.
L. Talliaferro acting as receiving agent, and
ably assisted by Professors Norton, Austin,
Simons, Walls and Doane. In the work of
installation the superintendent in charge was
ably assisted by Messrs Leo A. Cohill of
Washington county, John A. Scott of Balti-
more county and Stewart B. Shaw of Som
crset county.
The exhibit in design is unique and at
tracts more than usual attention, it being
fashioned so that the characteristics of the
State may at a glance be apparent 10 the
stranger, Approaching the exhibit from the
center aisle and west side, high above all
banners, in gold letter II inches in length.
is seen Maryland" 20 feet long. From the
effect of the skyblue background 1t seems to
be suspended in midair over map 7x12 feet
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bank o. dark blue clouds. No one can tail
to find the block if he keep but one eye open
when passing through the building. The
exhibit, like the State, is made up in sections
Western or Northern, Central, Eastern
Shore and Southern Maryland. BY the ar
rangement it is easy to explain why Mary
land has within her boundary lines every
condition of land and climate found in the
temperate zone. All products are exhibited
with the names and addresses of the growers
attached tied by ribbons of orange and black,
the State colors. The wcathered oak cases
with plate glass fronts which were made by
J. G. Enipp Il Sons of Baltimore, are as
good, if not better than any in the building.
The plate glass by its brilliancy and perfect
transparency, gives lustre to the products
behind it, freshness as in The natural, and
reproduces that which is lost in the presence
of artificial curing or preserving. 10 the
visitors left, at the north end, is case six
feet long one foot deep, filled with specimens
of forage. Timothy is shown from the farm
of the Consolidated Coal Co., near Frostburg
Allegany county, in two lots; the first and
second crops from the same field. The sec
ond crop is quite four feet long, and shows
the unsuspected fertility of the Allegany
Mountain pockets. Another specimen, ex-
hi5ited by j. T. Hopes, Hartford county, Is
over five feet in length. which, it is explain
ed, grows on land which often produces 100
bushels of corn per acle. In the same case
are three varieties of clover, alfalfa, buck
wheat and sheaf of spring wheat from W
H. Weber & Sons, Garrett county, which
shows growth of four aud onehaf feet OF
straw. A case of forage at the opposite or
south end contains forage crops of the East
ern Shore and Southern Maryland-winter
wheat, barley, oats, cowpeas, sofa beans and
blade fodder. Forage, it is explained, can
not be preserved with the same ease in the
East as in the Western States, where the
harvest season is 30 dry that grain can be
left in the fields for months after cutting
while in Maryland crops must be at once
stacked or stored in barns; that the frequent
showers make truck and fruit growing more
profitable than grain; that the nearby mark
cts offer opportunities for sale of these which
their Western brothers do not enjoy. The
two cases for exhibiting 10 samples OF soils
and subsoils, collected by DR.. j. A. Boustee
of the United States Division of Soils fol
the Maryland exhibit, are located one at eacl
end of the space. The cases are so arranged
that the soils can be inspected both in jsr'
and ia bins. In the front of each case il
black letters is the fact, Maryland has 1
greater variety of soils than any State in th'
Union" With each sample is the name,
description, where obtained, characteristics
the list OF crops for which it Is best adapted
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