Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-09-22

CENTRALIA. Sept. 21.-The open
ing of the Second Annual fair of the
Southwest Washington Fair AssOcia-
ticn yesterday was attended by an
immense crowd and the abundance of
exhibits, especially of agricultural
products. fruits and, in fact, every
thing raised on the farm, caused the
early comers to marvel.
The most enthusiastic boosters
have never described the wealth of
the soil of Southwest Washington as
the wonderful things that have been
grown in it are doing as exhibits at
the fair. President Hubbard and Sec
retary Walker We're all smiles as they
hurried about busy every moment, for
the fair exhibits in every department
had come in at a rate far beyond the
most sanguine expectations of the
managers The stock. poultry, WO-
mems work. art and floral displays
were all full at the start, with num-
erous exhibits calling for space that
could not be given in the regular eX-
hibition buildings. so that places had
to be found elsewhere on the grounds
for what they had to show.
In the farm exhibit much attention
is being given to stump burning pro-
cesses. Demonstrations of these pro-
cesses are being given just outside the
fair grounds. Prof H. w. Sparks,
farm demonstrator of the State Col
lege, is closely watching a half dozen
stumps that are being consumed by
char -pitting. That is, the stumps are
being burned out in a slow manner
after a fire has been started in the
ground and the base of the stump
covered with soil This soil must be
of clay nature, something that will
bake.
Prof Sparks said that one man at
Adna had in this way burned 200
stumps on logged-off land at cost
of 80 cents a stump, the labor includ-
ed.
Another interested witness of the
stump consuming operations today
was Harvey Thompson, expert OF the
United States department of agricul-
ture for Western Washington. Anoth-
way of getting rid of stumps on
logged-off lands is being demonstrate
ed by II. p. Savage, as agent for
Tacoma burner. A gucoline engine of
three and one-half horse power works
fan which blows air into q distribut-
er, from which the air forced through
pipes to the tree stumps. This sized
engine will work five pipes, which
means that five stumps can be burn
ed at a time The fire is started at
the root of the stump and a chunk of
wood is placed over the opening, to
which the pipe is also run. The oXy-
gen coming from the pipe creates
with the flames a gas. and the heat
becomes intense and continuous. The
stump is burned is inches down in
the ground. For both the pipe and the
char-pitting processes it is asserted
that instead of taking from the fer
tility of the soil they add to it.
THE Patch is the name of the
fair midway, and it has a collection of
dime drawing attractions the like of
which has never been seen in this
section before. Or course, the "Hit
the Babies attraction is there, to
the tune OF three balls for cents,
and every time you knock a baby you
get cigar" A new one is stick
the Devil which has many patrons.
"Houlah. the Wild Man" is another
attraction. coming as is announced
outside the tent, from the wilds of
the Zanzabar islands" If the pet
rified Woman Unearthed in Arizona
is the same inside the tent as she is
pictured outside. the tent will have
to be soon enlarged. This is descrb-
ed as a $4,000 attraction. "Croco-
diles Estimated to Be 100 Years Old"
is the announcement outside another
tent A bunch of monkeys on the
outside help to draw the dimes from
the farmers and others who crowd
along "The Patch A much patroniz-
ed feature along the route is Aunt
Dinah's Hand Laundry" Aunt Dinah's
head sticks up as out of tub and
the game is to knock it back in the
tub with baseballs. the reward being
the usual cigar. A western Wash
ington Wild Animal" is also on show
and of course, the Dancing Girls
are on THE Patch.
With the balloon ascension and the
cyclists slide for life down a thin
wire added to the attractions on "The
Patch" and the horse races. there is
plenty to entertain at the fair.