The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-05
COUNTY DISPLAYS
ARE INTERESTING
RARE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
SHOWN IN THEM.
Eleven Counties After the $1,000 Prize
Mammoth Grain and Vegetables
Are Features, and an Enormous Num-
Der of Varieties Are Tastefully
Shown by the Exhibitors.

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Eleven counties are entered for the
ST. 300 purse offered for the most com
prehensive and tastefully arranged
county displays. The enterprising
eleven are Aitkin, Blue Earth, Dakota,
Goodhue, Houston, Itasca, Morrison,
Olmsted Scott, Stevens and Wabasha.
AS there are three more counties en-
naturally stronger.
after being out for several years. Al
tho one Of the newest and most norther-
ly counties in the state it makes a
most creditable showing. The display
in charge of A. M. Sisler Of Grand
Rapids is not what he would like to
have it. "The, state fair comes e en-
tirely too early for us, says Mr.. Sis.
vegetables and fruits will be ripe, and
then we can show with any of them.
Still I will back these potatoes against
any in the hall, and I have seen none
to beat Itasca cabbages. - The county
| shows that it is strong for grazing, py
having about fifty varieties Of wild and
tame grasses. Iron ore is also ex-
hibited, altho minerals are not included
in the competition. ~ z..~
| Mr.. and Mrs. G.. IF. Murphy Of Gale
donia are on hand again for the sixth
consecutive time with fine display of
the products of Houston county. Mr..
Murphy will match his twenty varieties
of wheat, seventeen of oats and fifty of
grasses with any competing collection
in the hall. Among some of the queer
vegetable products he has is the Chinese
like the ground cherry, only the pod is
bright red and looks for all the world
like a small Chinese lantern. The odd
shaped DEVILS horn, which when ma
tured is used in pickles. is favorite on
the farm as fy-catcher. When young
the skin is very sticky and it will hold
and destroy the small flies every time.
Big Things from Blue Earth.
Blue Earth county makes a strong bid
for high prize. It shows ripe eatable
peanuts, grown outdoors this year, and
a cotton plant almost ready to burst the
boil. A curiosity is white wild grape,
which is plentiful in some places. Blue
Earth county runs to gigantic speci-
mems. Tt shows corn. IA feet 61A inches,
hemp IL feet tall, sunfowers II feet
high, squash weighing 70 pounds, and
other things in proportion. Everything
IS found in profusion, there being fifty.
seven varieties of forage grasses, fifty
OF apples, twenty of plums,. ten of
grapes and ten Of nuts. The display is
IN charge of w: j. Duffy and George
McComber Of Rapidan, both ardent
boomers for Blue Earth county.
Morrison county has creditable dis
play under the charge Of George La
fond of Little Falls. He is the great
bread-and- butter man of the fair, and
he wants Morrison county to be called
the bread and butter county Of the
state. Yesterday he fed more than five
thousand people with bread baked in his
county and buttered with: butter from
Morrison county creameries. He makes
claim to having the finest macaron
wheat in the state, and points to the
stalks, six feet tall and the measure
OF threshed wheat, as proof. The boott
includes 81 varieties of native grasses
Is varieties of tame grasses, Is kinds
of native fruit, all suitable for pre-
serves: Tobacco is grown for home con
sumption. Some immense black winter
radishes are shown and the usual dis
play of vegetables. Attention is di
rected to a white radish which weights
ten pounds, and is certainly monste!
Of it's kind. j