The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-09-01
VEGETABLES AND GARDEN
GRASSES.

Because the Interstate Fair is devot-
ing so much attention to fruit this
year does not mean that it is neglect
ing the other or So-called agricultural
classes such as grains, grasses, for
age plants and vegetables. This year,
for the first time, a prize is offered for
the best display of vegetables and mar
ket garden truck to correspond with
the same prizes given in fruit classes.
The amount of this prize is 5000.
"To compete for this prize, display
must consist entirely of vegetables
and roots raised in one county Or dis
trict and where vegetables and roots
displayed were not raised by exhibitor,
the exhibitor will be required to give
name and address of party raising
same. This money will be divided as
follows: To the highest scoring ex-
hibits, first $4,000; second, $4,000;
third, $4,000; fourth, $4,000; fifth,
$1,000. The following additional prizes
will be paid for taste, design and ar
rangement: First, $500; second,
$3.50; third, $1,000; fourth $3.50; fifth,
$500. No exhibits will be entitled to
any prize money unless scoring 60
points or better"
The prizes for individual exhibits
of vegetables remain the same, but
the new items or lots have been in
cluded, such as:
Best peck green peas in pod, first
$500; second $1.00. Best peck green
corn, first, $500; second, $1.00. Best
peck string beans in pod, first, $500;
second, $1.00.
Also the prizes for the best peck OF
early and for the best peck of late
potatoes have been raised from $500
and $3.50, respectively, for first and
second to $1,000 and $500.
Every year the number of market
gardeners serving the city of Spokane
increases. This is caused largely by
the opening up of new irrigated tracts.
The older ones, such as Greenacres
and Opportunity, will soon have to be-
gin to look to their laurels. Probably
this year we shall see many new and
unfamiliar names over fine collective
displays-made possible by the new ar
rangement OF the main prizes.
The class comprising grains, grasses
and forage crops has received the same
generous treatment as the others in
the matter of prizes for the best dis
play of these products OF the farm.
Three hundred dollars is offered for
the best display of sheaf and shelled
grain, grass seeds and sheaf grasses,
seeds, forage crops, baled hay, etc.
To compete for this prize, display
must consist entirely of grains, seeds
and forage crops raised in one county
or district, and where grains, seeds and
forage crops displayed were not raised
by exhibitor, the exhibitor will be re-
CURED to give name and address OF
party raising same. This money will
be divided as follows: To the highest
scoring exhibits, first, $500; second,
$4,000; third, $4,000; fourth, $4,000;
fifth, $500. The following additional
prizes will be paid for taste, design
and arrangement: First, $500; Sec
ond, $4,000; third, $1,000; fourth.
$1,000; fifth, $500 No exhibit will be
entitled to any prize money unless
scoring 60 points or better.
This, as we have already indicated,
is an entirely new prize and presents a
splendid opportunity to the Changers
and Farmers Unions of the Big Bend
and the Palouse, or wherever they ex-
eel along these lines to show the meas
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