The Springdale news., 1909-10-15
HORTICULTURAL DISPLAY.
Fine showing Made at the Recent
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Ill commenting on the display Of fruit made al the county fair held at Fayetteville recently. Prof Walk CT heftitalturist at the experiment. station. and who was superinten- dent of thie' department at the fair, III an article nj the Fayetteville sentinel says among other things.
 To say that visitors at the fan were surprised to find 90 much fine fruit and the largest bortfeul- turai display of any fair vel held. is putting It mildly Owing to the reported short crop of apples. and the severe drouth few expected to see very little nice fruit or very much of It But notwithstanding anfayorable conditions the display would do credit 10 any season and any country in the world To look tt the large perfect and blazing red apples, one would hot have guessed that it was grown during one of the seVerest drouths eyer known in Arkansas. The principal part Of the display consisted of ap- ples but there was also grapes of several kinds, number of Vafie= ties Of peaches and pears, papaWs and some flowers With the excep- ton of two lots, all were grown in Washington county. new feature of the exhibits was a display Of handsomely polished apples in bush el boxes This was a telling feature aud created much interest and q feeling of pride in the breasts of visitors that they live in q land cap able of producing such magnificent fruit The boxed apple exhibit will be made more prominent feature next year The building proved wholly inadequate for the exhibits brought in. The plates had to be crowded too much, and even then quantity of fruit could not be space. The bulk of the exhibits left off the tables represented non- competitive exhibits prepared by Prof Ernest Walker. who gave oth= CT exhibitors the preference. The hfbit nall should at least be doubled in size, and this We learn is to be done by the management Prof Ern- est Walker, of the Horticultural De Fartment Of the University. vas ab. ly assisted by Messrs Lafe Marks. {. $. Bonton and D. | Richer, of springdale. in preparing and ar ranging exhibits H. A. Niekars. an horticultural student in college a1= so assisted The judges were Mess IS. Geo A kunZ, Geo Parker and James Marks. J A Eiehef acted in place of James Marks in judg- ing the general display exhibits. All were well satisfied with the awards and that they were absolutely just There was not an exhibitor but was glad of what he had contributed toward the splendid exhibition As
 
 all expect to be on hand next year with larger and better displays. Those who won premiums were pleased, and those who did not were equally pleased over the sue cess of others and the success of the county in being able to hold so successful a fair under such ad- verse seasonal conditions
 The fair closed on Friday. Oct | Most of the plate exhibits had been donated to send with the county exhibits to the state fair at Hot Springs which opens Oct. T. and lasts till the 18th The box exhibits of apples were donated in in some instances, in others they these were packed and loaded by Prof Walker and Mir kunz, Lafe Marks, James Marks and II A Sickars. and turned over to Ellis Duncan. who is in immediate charge of the two cars of county exhibits forwarded to Hot Springs The committee of the state fair for Washington county Is composed Of Ellis Duncan, J E Reynolds. w s. Jacobs and Ernest Walker After the state fair arrangements have been made to take the Washington county exhibits with other products of western Arkansas to Chicago for exhibition during the national irri- gation congress in November