Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-10-04
Splendid Display ofProducts
OF Central New Mexico Now
In Place at Exposition
Exhibit Hall at Fair Grounds Rapidly Filling Up With Prize
Pumpkins and Monster WatermeIons; BernaNlIo County
Farmers Have One Of Most Comprehensive and Interesting
Collections of Vegetables Ever Seen in This Section.

The opening day of the First state
Exposition yesterday found a splenr
did collection Of crop exhibits in the
exhibit hall at the fair grounds,
Bernalillo county especially being wen
represented. Exhibitors from outside
points were busy all day yesterday
getting their stuff into place and the
big hail should be fairly well FILLED
his morning, Those who saw the
display yesterday We're amazed at the
fine showing made by the farmers
and gardeners adjacent to Albuqucr-
que in the Rio Grande valley and the
stuff now on the shelves and tables
forms q striking demonstration of the
unlimited agricultural possibilities OF
this valley. 1t will be an eye opener
for doubling Thomases to drop in and
look at the stuff. j. NJ. Stueckel, the
market gardener has perhaps tho
largest exhibit, with siXty-eight differ
ent vegetables on display, all of them
splendid specimens and some of them
especially the beets and tubers, mon
strous in size. over his exhibit Mr..
Stueckel abs something unique in
the way of lettering. the words Bern
alillo county outlined in large onions
on a back ground.
Some OF the cauliflowcr in this eX-
hibit weigh nine and ten pounds each.
There are beets two feet long, stock
bcets. with sugar beets II ordinary
beets also Of very large size. one in
teresting display is hat of the car
doom, 4 vegetable resembling celery,
which is a new thing mere. There
are specimens of pie plant measur-
ing as much as five feet from root to
leaf tip.
The Menaul brothers and other local
gardeners are represented with first
class exhibits, the whole forming an
exposition of the Rio Grande valleys
crops tina is beyond compare.
Adjoining the Stueckel exhibit is
that of +. Nj. Zickert, another market
gardener, whose name appears above
his display emblazoned in letters
formed by beans. Zickert also has a
large and comprehensive displays show
considerable work in the gathering and
good taste in the exhibition. Zichekerts
variety is almost as large as that of
Stueckel's and is plenty large enough
to demonstrate that he is raising eN-
erything in the vegetable line with
equal success. Across the hall is the
display of j. Woodward, the florist
who has branched out into vegetables
the past year and has used his large
greenhouse north of Old Albuquer-
que for growing winter vegetables. In
addition to his fine collection of vcge-
tables Mr.. Woodward has an innova-
ton in the way of q display of specl-
mems of the shade trees which he
raises in his nursery
This display Is of especial interest
in view of the present movement to
plant better shade trees and a greater
variety here in place of the ominpre-
sent cOttoIIWOOds.
In the exhibit are catalpa trees,
white ash, honey locust, black locust
and others. In view Of the fact that
it is Woodward's first season in truck
gardening the vegetable showing he
makes is remarkable. j. S. Bletchcr
from his farm south Of the city has
on display an aggregation of products
which viii put a crimp in those VINO
are dubious about the possibilities OF
the land south of here in the Vaey. !
The display has samples of millet,
blueberries, sugar beets, blood beets,
carrots. cantaloupes n manages,
once again demonstrating the wide
variety of vegetables which may be
raised here.
Paul Ellis of Los Placitas has
brought in from the Sandia mountain
ranch of his father George c. Ellis
some prize cabbages which for size
and quality are easily i'm the prize VIM
ner class and show what tho
country will do in the gardening line.
lie also has on display large potatoes
and other vegetables, with some sam
pies Of the ordinary Mexican wheat
raised in the mountains, where the
hcads have reached a length of four
or five inches and the size of the
grain is something never seen in TINS
wheat when raised in the lowlands.
Ellis also has some fine samples of
durum wheat, oats and rye, the oats
standing five feet high in the stalk
with heads of great length II ii+c
large well formed grains.