Omaha daily bee., 1911-10-28
AK.sAR-BEN LEGION TO ATTEND
During Day and Evening Knights
and Their Ladies Will Be Seen.
NEBRASKA PRODUCTS ADMIRED
Fruits Grown in the Missouri Valley
Have Not Been Excelled.
DOUGLAS MAKES GOOD SHOWING
Country 10 Northwest of Omaha Is
an Empire I'm Itself, but Stiu
SparseIy Unsettled Because
Lack of Advertising,

Today will afford omaha Land Show
visitors the last opportunity to gaze up
on and inspect the wonderful display of
agricultural and horticultural exhibits
grown upon the sun-kissed prairies, wat
cred by the rains and mountain streams
and matured in n climate that is ac-
knowledged to be unequalled any place
on earth.
BY command Of King Ak-sar-ben XVII
today has been selected as Ak-Sar- Ben
day at the Omaha Land show. Ills
Majesty hopes that large number of his
loyal knights will be present throughout
the day and that especially in the even
ing their attendance will do credit to
! their Royal 1ege and his Standard.
During the past two weeks thousands
of visitors have admired and marveled
at the display of fruits, grains and
grasses gathered from the dozen inter-
mountain and Pacific slope states, but
the climax Of this wonder and admira-
ton has not been reached until they
have passed through the north gallery
of the Coliseum where the products of the
Antelope state have been spread for in
spection.
Although but few of the Nebraska
countries have been at the Land Show
with their exhibits, enough have been
present to give the stranger within the
gates of Omaha an idea of what Nebras-
ka soil aided by sunshine anu the heaven
given waters can do TO add prosperity
and plenty to the homes of millions of
consumers in every section of the United
States. These displays are simply SYM
Of ha not Of
acres Of the state that is now sending
its grains and it's meats TO every ooun-
try on the face of the civilized globe.
This year at the Land Show, Douglas,
| Dawes. Sheridan, Scottbluff. Morrill, and
Washington were the counties that came
in with large and representative exhlb-
! its, And these exhibits are som COM
! plete and comprehensive that they bear
] the convincing evidence that there Is no
portion of the great commonwealth that
cannot do as well If II will but come to
the front with It's every day products.
Douglas County Exhibit.
| 1ne exhibit shown by Douglas is OF
course the largest, owing TO its proxi-
nifty to the Land Show. In 1t is every
kind Of known grain grown in the tenn
perate zone. cotton, a plant that is sup
posed to be raised only in the south,
vegetables that do not take off their
hats, so to speak, TO those from the
semitropical portions of California, or
the irrigated portions OF Washington,
! Idaho, or Colorado; fruit and such fruit.
There are apples weighing two and up to
almost three pounds, those of the Wolf
river variety and beside them are the
| delicately tinted and Juicy Winesaps and
Jonathans with a flavor superior to any,
regardless of where grown. In fact, the
apple exhibit is the envy of even the
horticulturalists Of the far western states.
where this fruit is the recognized king.
The county Of Washington, represented
by the Aye brothers Of Blair, has been
showing corn that has attracted the at
tention Of agriculturists from all over the
country. After looking at this product,
! the experts from other states acknowl-
edge that 1t has no equal. However, II
is just Nebraska corn, the fame of which
has extended from ocean to ocean and
| even into foreign lands, where a market
for It has long been established.
! Westerners and easterners time and
again during the Land Show have asked
the question Of how II Is possible to grow
such corn In Nebraska and for one and
| all the answer is short and TO the point:
Because Nebraska has the SOIL the rain
and the climate, a combination that can
not be beaten.
In Northwest Nebraska.
There are other counties Dawes, Sheri-
dan. Scots Bluff and Morrill,, which until
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