The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-31
New York State Is
 Good Enough for Me"
4, Baby Moose and $100, 900, in Gold Nuggets, En Route for Madison Square Garden.

Shipments from every part of the
 United States and Canada started last
 week to converge on New York where
 Exposition is to open the latter part
 of this week. Special trains on the
 sixteen big railroad systems, which
 are among the exhibitors, are rolling
 through the country picking up the
 fruit bearing date, orange and fig
 trees, and wheat, oats, barley, corn,
 cotton, potatoes, hops. alfalfa, apple
 and sugar beet exhibits which are to
 compete for the prize trophies to be
 awarded at the exposition. This
 means an additional freight tonnage
 worth more than million dollars
 which will reach New York this
 month A car started from Seattle,
 samples of the oat crops along the
 Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul rail-
 road. On train which started the
 day before, the Alaskan exhibit. in-
 cluding one hundred thousand dollars
 in gold nuggets and a baby moose,
 is travelling. Other trains are rumb-
 ling over the Northern Pacific and
 the Great Northern Railroads, bearing
 the finest products of their territory
 to the Land show. Utah, Wyoming.
 Idaho, Montana, Texas, Delaware,
 Canada, Alabama, are all contribut-
 ing their quota. The picked body of two hundred singers from the famous
 Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir left Chey-
 enne Tuesday last week, and were in
 Omaha Wednesday and Chicago Thursday. Over a thousand boxes of apples have been entered in the apple competition and freight from all the
 apple districts scattered near and far
 ao ho fo nf nf Orr
 chards is focusing on New York. Each
 district hopes to bear away the $500
 prize for the best apples in theIworld,
 offered by President Howard Elliott
 of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Au-
 tomobile companies, horticulturists,
 nut growers, truck gardners. fertilizer
 companies, florists and all the indus
 tries that have to do with the soil or
 depend upon it. are preparing exhi-
 bits and shipping them to New York. An imaginative listener who can grasp the extent of this first great Land Show in the largest City in the United States, and, according to Mayor Gay nor, the largest in the world can al- most hear the subdued rumble of ap- preaching trains The States tribu- tary to the Southern Railway and Florida, Alabama, Delaware and Vir- ginia are making an effort to show what the South is doing in an agricul- turaI line. Tobacco from Alabama will clash with tobacco from Connec- ticut Miniature irrigation plants, which will give the New York investor an idea of the meaning and value of his irrigation bonds, are to be set up in Madison Square Garden, New York, which Is accused by the rest of the country of provincialism, and of being better acquainted with crumbling European palaces and tot tering dynasties than with the won- | ders of our own country, is to be | treated to as large bunch of agricul- 1 tural information as it can possibly | absorb Not the least interesting part 1 of the Exposition to some city so- journers who yearn for the country, l but lack the initiative or the capi- | distribution by popular allotment of | blocks of land worth more than a thousand dollars each. These gifts | were increased last week by a dona- ton of an apple orchard from the | Arcadia Orchard Company, of Spo- | kane. Washington, amounting in value | to s3.OO0 Some of the visitors to New York will not arrive by train. The Denver Chamber of Commerce starts an automobile run under the sanction | of the American Automobile associa- tion. this week It will visit McCook. | Omaha, Des Moines, Davenport, Chi | cago. Toledo Cleveland, Buffalo, Syr- acuse, Albany, and arrive in New York Nov 7th, during the progress ot the show. Special excursions will start | out in pursuit of the advance guard | of freight few days later. So much | enthusiasm among the agricultural | population over this attempt to inform