The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-08-31
Will Take Up Nearly Half Of Express
Car and Will Be in Charge Of
Two Men.
GREATEST COLLECTION YET
Includes IL Foot Corn, Peanuts, To-
bacco, Sweet Potatoes and Much
. Other Produce.

Beltrami, most northerly of Mime
sofa counties, confidently expects to
win the prize at the state fair next
week on an exhibit to be shipped
tonight and which contains such pro-
ducts as stover corn IL feet, 6 inches
long; and 80 pound pumpkin, Is
pound watermelon, tobacco, peanuts,
sweet potatoes, three cuttings of
timothy, threshed grains, grains in
the stocks, grapes, cherries, rasp-
berries, logan berries, apples, plums
and other fruit and grasses and veg
etables of all descriptions in such
weight and profusion that more than
one half of the express car is need
ed to house the boxed evidence of the
fertility of Northern Minnesota's
soil
E. E. Chamberlain sends the prize
pumpkin, too large to got into a bar
rel and weighing a few ounces more
than 80 pounds. Ellsworth Dibble
OF Port Hope township, near Ten
strike, has a yellow pumpkin weigh
ing 63 pounds while E. D. Bently
sends a squash weighing SIS pounds.
Henry Bakke, whose Farm Is just
west of Bemidji sends two large Hub
bard squash, one of which is declared
perfect. There is wonderful ex-
hibit of potatoes, the growers ex-
periencing trouble in getting small
enough potatoes to offer. George
Miller has six varieties and August
Jarchow, whose potatoes always are
prize winners has eight varieties.
Gus Buelow sent several things fc'
the exhibit, including the big watei-
melon, which is as large as any from
Georgia, He also brought in some
splendid specimens of cucumbers.
Ripe yellow flint corn was sent by
F. M. Freeze from his farm east of
town.
The II foot stover corn was raised
by o. E. Rundell of Puposky.
Tommy Smith of Tenstrike has an
exhibit which is sure to attract at
tention. It is timothy raised from
the seed in 83 days. ..
R. P. Mcknight of Puposky has an
array of different varieties of crab
apples; V. L. Ellis Of this city has
wild plums raised on his land; N. G.
Reynolds of this city has a display of
fruit that will make sight seers from
the south gap for awhile. He has
blue and green grapes, red rasp-
berries, loganberries, cross be-
tween raspberries and blackberries,
plums and other fruit.
Another feature of an exhibit
which teens with features" is the
alfalfa shown by Alfred Godbout,
whose farm is two miles south. He
has three cuttings, the last to be cut
showing the blossoms. He will cut
still another crop. He asserts that
he never has been beaten at growing
alfalfa.
Mrs Jens Nelson of Buena Vista
esnds box of case knife beans, the
pods being nearly ten inches long.
Joe Tyce of Blackjack sent a turnip
almost as big as football
In addition there are any number
of vegetables, fruits, grains and
grasses.
Twelve girls working under direc-
ton of Mrs. Gertrude Rogers, who
has assisted A. p Richie in taking.
care of the exhibits, are busy sorting
grains, while several men are boxing
the exhibit which must leave on to-
nights train. August Jarchow and
Charles Schroeder, who are to assist
Secretary Richie with the exhibit
on the fair grounds, will go down
tonight, but Mr.. Richie will not go
until tomorrow night. The exhibit
probably will have the same place
in the center of the AGRICULTURAL
building that was given to it last
year.