The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-09-15
Maryland
at ODE Fair.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

cultural Palace, and in dimensions i.
90x20 feet
Mr.. VIM. l.. Amoss, a farmer al
Benson, Hartford county, and direc
tor of the Farmers Institutes, a de-
partment of the Maryland AgricuI
tural College, was through the cour-
tesy of its trustees, placed in charge
to organize and collect products for
exhibition. Every assistance pos
sible was given by the President, di-
rector and faculty of both College
and Experiment Station, where the
products were received and stored.
Prof. w. II. l.. Talliaferro acting as
receiving agent, ably assisted by
Professors Norton, Austin, Sim ons
Walls and Doane. In the work of in
stallation the superintendent in
charge was ably assisted by Messrs.
Lew a. COhill of Washington county.
John Ascot of Baltimore county and
Stewart B. Shaw of Somerset county.
The exhibit in design is unique and
attracts more than usual attention, it
being fashioned so that the charac-
teristics of the State may at glance
be apparent to the stranger. APP
preaching the exhibit from the cen
ter of the aisle and west side. high
above all banners, in gold letters II
inches in length. is seen maryland. -
20 feet long. From the effect of the
sky-blue background it seems to be
suspended in midair oyer map 7x12
feet of the State, held in place as it
were, on a bank of dark-blue clouds.
No one can fail 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, Eas-
tern Shore and Southern Maryland.
By the arrangement it is easy to ex-
plain why Maryland has within her
boundary lines every condition of
land and climate found in the tenn
perate zone. All products are exhib-
tied with the names and addresses of
the growers attached, tied by ribbons
of orange and black, the State colors
The weathered oak cases with plate
glass front which were made by J. G.
Knipp & Sons of Baltimore, are as
good, if not betrer than any in the
building. The plate glass by its brill
fancy and perfect transparency, gives
lustre to the products behind it, a
freshness as in the natural, and repro
duces that which is lost in the pres
ence of artificial curing or preserving
To the visitors left, at the north end,
is case six feet long and one foot
deep, filled with specimens of forage
Timothy is shown from the farm of
the Consolidated Coal Co, near Frost
burg, Allegany county, in two lots
the first and second crops from the
same field. The second crop is quite
four feet long, and shows the unsus-
pected fertility of the Allegany Noun
tain pockets. Another specimen, ex-
hibited by J. 7. Hopes, Hartford
county, is over five feet in length,
which, it is explained grows ON land
which often produces 100 bushels of
corn per acre In the same case are
three varieties of clover, alfalfa, buck
wheat and a sheaf of spring wheat
from H. Weber & Sons, Garrett coun-
ty, which shows a growth of four and
one-half feet of straw. A case of for
age at the opposite or south end con-
tains forage crops of the Eastern
Shore and Southern Maryland-win-
ter wheat, barley, oats, COW peas, sofa
beans and blade fodder. Forage, it is
explained, cannot be preserved with
the same ease in the East as in the
Western States, where the harvest
season is SO 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 markets offer
opportunities for sale of these which
their Western brothers do not enjoy.
The two cases for exhibiting 10 sam
piles of soils and subsoils, collected by
DR.. j. A. Bonsteel of United States
Division of Soils for the Maryland ex-
hibit, are located one at each end of
the space. The cases are so arranged
that the soils can be inspectedlboth in
jars and in bins. In the front of each
case in black letters is the fact,
"MARYLAND HAS A GREATER
VARIETY OF SOILS THAN ANY
STATE IN THE UNION With
each sample is the name, a descrip.
ton, where obtained, characteristics,
the list of crops for which it is best
adapted.
a feature intended to illustrate the
varied conditions Of the State, quite
foreign to each other, is the two barn
scenes, located at each end and on the
wall side of the block. That on the
north ap1 is Ia bnIa6 tINVactarr NIor,y