The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-21
BROOKINCS
AT THE FRONT
This County Captures Second Hon.
orS at the State Fair.

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Brookings county has again
achieved a success in competition with
other counties of the state.
At the State Fair September II to Is
this county had an agricultural ex-
hibit as did six other counties, COM
prising Hughes, Hyde, Hand, Faulk,
Sanborn and Beadle in the Jim River
Valley. Sanborn took first premium
and Brookings second.
The exhibit made by Brookings
county was entirely gathered by the
Brookings Land & Trust Co., Of
Brookings, S. D., and they not only
gathered the material and paid men to
do the work, but they also, at the har-
vest festival, recently held in Brook
ings, paid special prizes for certain
grains and vegetables. Other counties
in the state had paid various amounts
of money to make fair and good
representation at the state fair. Brook
ings county failed to do this and had
to depend upon the efforts of private
citizens to show what this county
could do in the way of raising grain
and fruits.
The Brookings exhibit at the state
fair was situated in the northeast cor
ner of the Agricultural building and
was banked on either side by the exhib-
its of Hughes and Beadle counties.
Along the front of the exhibit made by
Brookings county, which was 22x9 feet
in extent, grasses and grains were
placed as a background and upon
them were placed various designs of
grains and grasses, very artistically
arranged. In the front of the whole
was placed a swarm of bees in glass
hive. On each side of this was placed
vegetables, fruits and threshed grain
in various forms attractive to the eye.
In this display, as shown by the
Brookings Land d Trust Company,
there were 65 varieties of vegetables,
80 varieties of threshed grain and al
most as many duplicated in sheaf,
eight varieties OF corn on the ear and
on the stalk, As varieties of fruits, IS
varieties of wild and tame grasses and
four varieties of nuts, including wal
nuts, butternuts, hazelnuts, and al
monds, all cultivated (bear this in
mind and home grown.
The show made by SanbOrn county
is convincing evidence that Brookings
county is practically ahead of any
other county in the state, as Mr.. War
ner, the gatherer and designer Of the
whole thing, has made a practice OF
raising and propogating certain plants
and agricultural products for the pur-
pose of exhibition at the state and
county fairs. Brookings county de-
sires to call this one thing to the no.
tice OF everybody who has seen their
exhibit, that everything exhibited by
Brookings county at this fair was gath
cred from various farms in the county
and none propogated for the purpose.
The county commissioners o. San
born county appropriated the sum OF
$3.50 90 to pay for the exhibit which
was made at Huron, and the commits
sioners of Hughes county appropriated
$780, 90 to pay for their exhibit at the
state fair, and the commissioners OF
Brookings county appropriated moth
ing.
The Brookings Land d Trust
Company not only desired to adve-
tise their own business but the land
which they represented to sell and
made this exhibit at Huron at the
state fair, asking nothing from the
county or city, and paid in actual
money and labor about $4,000 for the
privilege to do this. Besides this they
gave the efforts of their corps of as
sistants, including Mr.. F. E. Hits,
Miss Blanche B. Bigler, Everett San
derson and John Hughson. These
people went to Huron and gave their
time and effort to make the display of
Brookings county perfect, and we be-
lieye that the decision of the judges
was a fair and honest one.