Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-01-24
THIS APPEALS TO YOU.
To the Farmers of Eastern Virginia
and North Carolina.

Gentlemen:
The great Jamestown Memorial Ex-
position of 1907, will be held at our
very door Opening April 26th) cele-
brating the most important event in
our national life, (the planting of En-
glish blood in Ameriea.) This is a
very important thing for you and me,
and in view Of it's importance it be-
hooves us to prepare to show to the
many thousands of visitors who will
come to see not only the Exposition,
but this fair land, her people, her fruits
and flowers, her rivers and bays and
their Astounding wealth, her fish of
every kind, her oysters, (Ostrea V1r-
ginia) the peer of any bivalve known,
the (Lynnhaven OYSTER, the king of
all. These things, commonplace to
you and me, are to the visitors the
most attractive of all our exhibits, ex-
cept our people.
TIC encourage and stimulate a united
effort on the part of our farmers, the
Norfolk 81 Southern Railway Company
would like to cooperate with them in
getting together a most representative
collection of exhibits from every field,
river and forest within our system. To
further this spirit OF exploitation we
will pay to the farmer who will grow
the best ten (10) watermelons in any
melon section of Virginia or North
Carolina, 5000 cash; for the second
best ten, $1,000 in cash, provided we
can get ten or more growers in any sec
ton to enter the competitive scheme.
The sections are not to compete with
one another, but farmers only compete
among themselves for the above men,
toned prize: but at the Exposition all
sections of Virginia and North Caro-
lima will compete for the grand prize, IA
gold medal and d%iploma.) In addition
to this, all exhibits shown on Norfolk
& Southern space will compete against
all others for a grand prize; hence we
need your cooperation.
The same scale of awards will be
paid for potatoes, both sweet and Irish
$500 for the best bushel Of Irish po-
tatoes; $3.50 for the second best, both
to b. delivered to the nearest Norfolk &
Southern Railway agent by June Goth,
1907. The same scale to be applied to
sweet potatoes, to be delivered Sept.
1st, 1907.
Awards to be made within 80 lays
by Exposition's Jury of Awards.
On October 1st the Norfolk &
Southern Railway Company's Agent al
any station in Virginia Or North Caro-
lima will receive samples of corn grown
by Virginia and North Carolina farm
boys, for which a prize of $500 will be
paid for the best twelve ears. All col
Iections will be exhibited in the name
of the grower and be subject to special
award of merit and diploma The
Norfolk & Southern agents will receive
all exhibition goods and Onward same
to the Norfolk & Southern Railways
space at the Exposition free of freight
and all expense to the grower. The
name of the section where grown viii
be plainly marked on all exhibits and
installed at the expense Of the Norfolk
81 Southern Railway Co.
Send all communications pertaining
to this matter to Mr.. Fred L. Merritt
Chief OF the Land and Industrial De-
partment of the Norfolk & Southern
Railway Company, Citizens Bank
Norfolk, Va.
Yours very truly,
J. Lyman Babcock,
Special Exposition Agent
Norfolk & Southern Railway Co