The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-09-15

ed at this bower in one. day, though
many stop and do not leave their
names. This gives some idea how it
attracts the eye of the passer-by. The
whole has been thickly covered with
English ivy. On opposite sides the
morning glory vines, one white and
the other purple, have crept through
the tangled mass 20 the roof A wild
rose, full of bloom, has thrown its
| spray across and oyer the front, and
| here and there are little birds nests.
The comfort and apparent GOODNESS
of the whole halts the weary to read
the sign. "ALL ARE WELCOME
! WALK IN" On the inside he finds
the Baltimore American, the Sun, the
News and county papers. In glass
covered racks are pamphlets supplied
| by real-estate firms of the State. Two
placards call attention to the census
records for Maryland, one the average
yield per acre, the other the average
value of farm products. The latter
gives Maryland standing with the
highest of her sister States.
By ingenious construction, the
superintendent has made his desk by
| dropping a section of an exhibition of
| grain; through this, also, unobserved
doors open to closets back of the can
ned goods, where are stored the sam
pies intended for the inspection of
/ the Committee on Awards.
Though the arrangement and the
display of the products are convinc-
| ing of the varied conditions found in
the State, nothing probably leaves
with the visitors a more lasting i'm
| preston than the five snapshot pic
lures, dye feet long and 16 inches
wide, taken by J. W. Schaefer of Bal
| timore with his wonderful camera on
films especially prepared by the East
man Co., and colored by Miss E. s..
jackson of Washington. The one
standing on the soil case at the north
end was taken at Braddock Heights,
and lays before the visitor a view of
the Middletown Valley, Frederick
| county, strip of land across the
| State 16 miles wide and over 80 miles
in length, from the Mason and Dixon
Line to the Potomac and Old Virgin
| ia.
In the Southern Maryland section
over the soil case is typical planta-
ton scene, the home of Hon. Thomas
Iglehart, Indian Range" II miles
from Annapolis and five miles from
nayigable waters on South River and
on the Baltimore & Southern Rail
road. A card contains the informa-
ton that the land is naturally fertile
and hasa market price of from sic
to $50 per acre. A third picture, over
the grain exhibit, in tho same section,
was taken three miles from Cambridge
on an inlet of the Choptank RIVER,
from Mr.. Mondays barn roof. In the
foreground oyster tongmen are seen
at work, while across the river the
peaceful farm homes illustrate life
that is ideal. The fourth picture,
| taken off Solomon's Island, is beau
tiful water scene of the second nat
ural harbor in the United States and
the proposed terminus of the Balti-
more y Southern Railroad at the
mouth of the PatuXent River, where
some of the finest oysters grow. The
fifth is the Maryland Agricultural
College.
The display of each product on
this space is intended to show the
several industries in which the people
OF the State producing or manufac-
turing the agricultural products mot
horticulturaD will have every oppor-
tuhitY of securing the benefits of an
advertisement which an award from
the official committee can give him
through diploma, the same as if he
| spent his time and many thousands
in making a display of his own con-
struction, and that, too, without cost
to him manufacturer or producer
of products intended for seed or to be
sold direct to the consumer should let
this opportunity pass. The commit
tee making awards will not pass on
canned goods or tobacco until Sep
TENDER. Nothing has yet been scored
except that which is perishable.
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