Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1911-10-28
MANY INTERESTING EXHIBITS
FROM WEST VIRGINIA
This State wei Represented at the
Great Land Show Now Being
Held in Pittsbure.

Held in Pittsburg.
Pttsburg, Oct. 24.-By all odds the
most impressive and significant ex.
hibit in the big Land Show that open
cd in this city on October 18th, in the
| Duquesne Garden, and which closes
On the 2Sth, is the wonderful display
Of soil products which represents the
state Of West Virginia. 1t was col
lected under direction OF the discrimi-
mating judgment Of James Fl. Stewart
Of Morgantown, Director Ct the Agri-
culture Experiment Station. None Of
the much Wanted western states have
| anything whatever to show in any
line that surpasses West Virg MIA, and
but little that equals West Virginia.
In the apple line West Virginia took
every trick. Nothing has ever before
been done. in this city, anyhow, to
br ing so thoroughly to public notice
the extraordinary resources of West
| Virginia The exhibit is as beautiful
artistically as it is impressive in its
agricultural. commercial and indus
trial aspect. 1t contains too many
varieties and samples of fruits, veee-
| tables, grains, grasses, wools mir
| erals etc, to be named separately.
The exhibit booth contains these ia
scriptions posted in conspicuous
places:
West Virginia offers exceptional
opportunities to the investor. the live
stock breeder, manufacturer. dairy
man, poultryman, fruit grower and
market gardener"
West Virginia has 100000 acres
Of Permian sell, which produces the
| finest wool and mutton in the world "
"One days tine places West Vr-
ginia products in the finest markets
in the world. Why go farther?"
West Virginia grows apples and
peaches by the million for the mil
lions"
West Virginia fruit has size, color
quality, looks good-tastes as good as
| It looks"
"This exhibit OF West Virginia pro
ducts was collected by the West Vir-
GINA Experiment Station at MorgaI-
town, w. Va"
West Virginia has over five million
scres of the finest fruit lands. There
| is room for you"
yes this fruit was grown in West
Eirginia-and then some"
West Virginia's total population
has increased twenty-seven per cent
IN the past decade; her rural popula-
ton thirty per cent; her urban popu-
lation sixty-six per cent"
In this Land Show there is, con
nected with western exhibit, far
mer VINO is one of the leading agTi-
culturists in the irrigated west. He
has been identified with agricultural
college work, and government agri-
| cultural work, on two continents. for
twenty-five years This authF rity
speaks il these words about the West
Virginia display.
"The West Virginia exhibit is really
the sensational feature of this Land
Show in the magnitude and diversity
CT soil products, comprising everything
grown on the lands of the Atlantic
| Coast states. II is in no way short
CT extraordinary. The apples are as
free from Flemish. or sting, or inper-
fection, as any from the best sections
| thought, science and care have been
taken than elsewhere in putting on
| he market the best fruit that America
has ever grown. The color Ct West
! Virginia apples is exceptionally charm
| ing The vegetables are so fine that
many think they are grown by irriga'
ton. certainly by the best truck gar
derers. But the best educational fea-
ture of this exhibit are the jars which
contain every kind of West Virginia
soil, showing their different values
for agriculture and horticulture.
These varied types have special uses
for the production of particular crops.
On every jar is photograph of the
fruit, vegetables, grasses and grain
fer which this particular soil is pecu,
larly adapted This wonderful West
Virginia display cannot be duplicated
in any state agricultural llege or
experiment station in the United
States. 1t is really unfortunate tina,
this great exhibition cannot be shown
with the same space and appointments
at the American Land Show in New
y TX City and at the Third Annual
L.rd Show in Chicago next moath."
II IS said that no other man in West
Virginia than James II. Stewart could
lave accomplished, so effectively as
he has done, this great work in behalf
OF that state, and he has been able to
achieye it only through his own ex
traordnary knowledge of men. means
ard methods, acquired by many years
of practical experience in agriculture
ard horticulture and along general
Industrial and commercial lines, in
his native commonwealth
Moler-Haithcox