The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-20
PETERSBURG Day
Is GREAT SUCCESS
Between $4,000 and 10000
People Visit the South
side Fair.
ALMOST A HOLIDAY IN CITY
Nearby Counties Represented,
and Exhibits Highly
Creditable.
Times-Dispatch Bureau,
100 North Sycamore Street,


100 North Sycamore Street.
Petersburg, Va, October 10.
Between $4,000 and 10000 people
visited the fair of the Southside Az
ricultural and Industrial Association
to-day. 1t was Petersburg Day" and
Petersburg fully honored the occasion
by turning out en- masse. All busi-
ness houses and industrial plants were
closed; all the people turned their
faces TO the Fair Grounds. until the
streets finally seemed as deserted as
on quiet and restful Sabbath day.
The counties all around were fully
represented too. and many hundreds
OF their citizens poured in by trains
and vehicles. Admirable order was
preserved during the day, nothing to
mar the pleasure of any visitor oc-
curing.
Every county in tho southsidc made
fine exhibit Of It's varied products.
and all conspicuously arranged, the
most elaborate display probably com
ing from the Bellwood farm, in Ches-
terfcld. Prince George. with its exhibit
OF corn and peanuts; Dinwiddie and
Brunswick with their exhibits of to-
bacco and corn, show up very hand
somely. and the other counties of the
Southside are in no wise behind In the
exhibits OF their varied products. From
these 1t would appear that tho South
side is the garden spot of Virginia,
capable of producing in perfection
everything that grows from the soil.
There is remarkably fine exhibit
OF tobacco of the new crop: long and
thick in leaf rich. dark shipping
grades, mahogany colored filters. ship
ping leaf. ETC., such as make glad the
hearts of buyers and manufacturers,
and there are beautiful specimens of
the bright tobaccos grown in the
Southside.
By late additions the exhibits OF pea
nuts from the Virginia belt havo been
largely increased. In Its completion ess
the display of Spanish and Virginia
nuts is exceptionally fine. And so Is
the corn exhibit, representing hun
dreds of separate Individual exhibits
of tho white. yellow and red varieties,
sent In by the boys corn clubs and by
farmers who have adopted tho intensi-
fed methods of farming. From $50
to 200 bushels OF corn to the acre are
reported in many instances.
That the counties around Peters,
burg would make a splendid truck
section is evidenced by the great dis
play of fruits and vegetables of tho
choicest quality and of almost Infinite
variety.
The judges In the various depart
| ments have been busy since yesterday
in making their awards The assooia-
lions premium list calls for the ex-
pendtture OF $4,000 in prizes.
The blue ribbon stock was brought
out on parade to-day on the track,
and attracted the attention of the vast
crowd.
The common sentiment of the visI-
tors to-day was that the fair, as a
whole and in all Its departments, is
one OF great excellence and merit and
credit to Southside Virginia.
Prize Winners
Among the prize winners In the
stock department are the following:
Pair mules. c. w. Saunders; grade
draft horses, G.. s. Sheffield. Petersburg:
colts, FLIES, T. L. Munt. Prince George;
thoroughbreds. Alexander Hamilton
Petersburg: standard roadsters, David
Dunlop, Petersburg: pair mules, David
Dunlop, Petersburg; horses for gen
eral purposes, Austin Watkins, Suther-
lands; standard roadsters, one year old
A. A. Slagle, Petersburg; thoroughbred
mare, over four years. Captain N. c..
Jackson, Petersburg; thoroughbred
mare. under two years, Mrs. NJ G. Jnck-
son. Petersburg; mule colt, under one
draft horse. stallion. over four years,
w. Comstook; standard roadster stall
lion. over four years, II. T. Bass. Ches-
tertield; Shetland ponies, Leslie D.
Bowles.
Cattle.
Red Pollsd bull. John ID. Webb Dis
putanta; Shorthorn bull, Virginia
Trunk and Bng Company; Aberdeen
Angus bull and COW, A. n. Lee. Peters,
burg; Holstein heifers, two prizes. ].
d. Goddard Sons; Jersey bulls. Jo-
seph Tott and DR.. ]. ri. Hargrave
Prince George; Holstein- Fresian bull
and heller. II. II. Malone. Dinw-lddie
Goats.
Angora ram. w. ]. Burton, Peters
burg; Shropshire eve, David Dunlop
Petersburg: Angora eve, Spencer w
Ivey, Petersburg; Hampshire ram and
eve. w. Comstock Petersburg
p. IL Blake, OF Petersburg, won fif-
teen first prizes, two second prizes and
one third prize on Belgian hares. rab-
bits. pigeons. doves. fowls. etc.
Hogs.
Duroc Jerseys. o. w Cox three hrsts;
Thomas Darlington, one first: DR.. ]. H.
Hargrave, FIVE frsts.
Poland China, w. s. Ivoy, seven hrsts:
]. e. Belcher, one first; NJ r. Down
ing. two frsts.
Berkshires. "A. a. slagle, one first:
r. II. Malone. two nrsts.
Chester Whites. w w Knott, two
tirsts; j. D. Goddard & Sons, ten hrsts
Flower Exhibits
The flower exhibits are mostly from
Petersburg. Prizes awarded:
Cut flowers Percy Shoesmith, Ches-
ter; specimen palm, o. H. Tronnett. two
firsts; collection dahlias. Richard Cam
cron; collection cut flowers. Mrs. a. G.
NJ. Martin. Petersburg two hrsts; cut
flowers, Mrs. e. u Eigenbrun.
There are many other beautiful ex-
htbits of flowers. hut as there was no
competition In their classes no prizes
were awarded.