Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1911-10-19
INDUSTRIAL EXPO,
GREAT Success
ALL VISITORS
Many of the Exhibits Will 20 to
Eastern Land ShOws-Stuts.
man County

The Industrial Exposition closed
Saturday last with one of the biggest
days of the expo. There was a good
deal Of fun created by the travelling
men who always have a good time
when the bunch" get together.
There was kangaroo court, parade
and a dance
G. w. Kurtz, who had charge of
the Stutsman county exhibit feels
gratified over the success of the coun-
ty in making the display and believes
that the results will be very bene-
fetal. While the county carried off
no money prizes as the time was too
short in which to gather and arrange
exhibits for such prizes, yet the fact
that the county was given a rating
record in the list of contestants and
was seventh in the list of counties,
speaks we'll for what was done and
for the exhibits made There were
some 80 odd counties exhibiting and
the great majority received no spec
ial mention at all by the committee
awarding prizes.
The prizes were given for quantity,
quality and arrangement of exhibits.
A total of 100 merits was the basis
| from which the counties were judged.
Stutsman county stood third in the
seven leading contestants for guam
! tity, fourth for quality and fourth for
points out of the 100. This was but
two points below the lowest of the
prize winners. A gain of five or six
points would have entitled the coun-
tvs exhibit to cash prize.
Some of the products were as good
as any in the exhibit and some were
better. Stutsman county had the
largest pumpkin, the largest sun
flower, the largest kohlrabi and the
only school garden exhibit; the lat
ter secured prize of a handsome cut
glass vase which will be forwarded to
the jamestown Commercial Club for
some disposition.
| The county Lacked a good display
OF wheat straw, as the time was not
sufficient to get it, and to properly
display it, had it been secured, with
| silk ribbons, etc.
1t cost Eddy county about all the
money taken in the first prize to Sc
cure and arrange the exhibit. Some
of the counties paid from $500 to
$1,000 for their exhibits.
Real Value of Exhibit
Mr.. kurtz declares that the In
dustrial Exposition, as a whole, was
| a great success, financially as we'll as
otherwise. All the individual ex-
hibits on the first floor will be re-
tanned by the management and will
be sent to the land show at St. Paul;
also some of the county exhibits will
be retained for the same purpose.
Considering this as an off year in
crop products for North Dakota, the
exhibit was an amazing one. It
showed conclusively what a great
variety of food products North Dako-
ia can raise outside of wheat. The
value of the exhibition is demon
stration to the world that any indus
trious man can make a good living
in North Dakota on 16O acres of
land, either with or without grain.
The exhibition, it must be remem-
bered, did not show any livestock
or poultry, and these two items alone
are sufficient to make a family a liv-
ing If properly utilized.
Hogs Will Follow Corn
The corn display showed another
thing of great value, and that is
that with corn, must come hogs;
they go together, and in the chang
Ing of crop methods and farming
work, from an all grain to a mixed
farming state, hogs can be put in
quicker and money results can come
from them quicker than any other
livestock. A hog weighing from $50
to 200 pounds, the size that is in
greatest demand in the market, can
be turned of every fall. Cattle will
also be added, but it takes q longer
time than with hogs.