The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-20

EXHIBITION Of
AMERICAN SOIL
Valuable Prizes Will Be
Offered For the Best
Products.
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The officers of the exposition are:
| Gilbert McClurg, general manager; Ar
thur e. Stilwell president, and Matt
| G. Smith, treasurer. The advisory
board includes President w. @. Brown
of the New York Central railroad
President James A. McCrea of the
Pennsylvania, President Darius Miller
Of the Burlington, J. S. Dennis, as
sistant to the vice president of the
| Canadian Pacific; B. f. Yoakum,
chairman of the Frisco line and S. L.,
B. and M; J. G. Stubbs, vice presi-
dent of the Union Pacific; Edward
Dickman, vice president Kansas City
Mexico and Orient, and T. ]. Ander
son, general passenger agent G. H.
and S. A. railroad; also the governors
Of some thirty states, several agricul-
tural college presidents and bank pres
idents, United States senators and 9th
er prominent men.
There will be camphor and tea that
have been grown in Texas. Texas is
also to present a record In American
crop growing-fve to eight crops Of al
falfa produced year on the same soil.
In the Arizona exhibit there will be
almonds and dates. Arizona is now
commencing to rival the orient in
these products. Almost equally inter
estipg will be the Florida exhibit.
! Florida was long celebrated for her
oranges, but now this state has some
thing in which she takes a far great
er pride-her paper shell pecans. Ex-
perts say that the pecan industry re-
turns the largest yield of any product
of the soil. Some growers get as much
as 700 or 800 pounds of nuts from a
single tree.
| The California exhibit will be one
of the most noteworthy of all, for the
California development board has ar
ranged to make a very full and com
plete showing of the states achieve
ments, especially in the unique plant
creations Of Luther Burbank. Among
the wonders accomplished by him
there will be presented for the first
time his white and thornless black
berries and a special exhibit of 500
varieties of apples produced from a
single tree. Other Burbank prodigies
Of plant breeding that will be shown
are grass trees, new rubber plants, the
pomato "a cross between the potato
and tomato that has been much talk
ed about and the spineless cactus, a
| vegetable product Of the west that
Burbank has made through his great
skill food that is designed to afford
both food and drink for cattle in des-
ert countries.
Alaska's Exhibit.
Alaska is another section of the
United States that sees in this big ex-
position many possibilities of pushing
her interests. Her commercial clubs
and her railway men have combined
their forces and will send to the New
York land show products that are GER
tain to arouse widespread attention.
Alaska's agricultural resources are, to
say the least, scanty. Such as they
are, they will be presented, but with
them will be shown the other things
that make Alaska a force and COM
ing great power in the national COM
munity of states. Chief of these ex-
hibits will be 100000 worth of gold
dust. This will be shown in a gold
cage and kept under constant guard
while on exhibition. There will be
also a large picturesque display Of
totem poles, Chilkoot blankets, coal
copper and gold nuggets.
The exposition will have a fine ap-
pie exhibit President Bachelor Of
the natlsnal grange and former gov
ernor of New Hampshire, said jocular-
ly at a recent meeting of the commits
sioners of agriculture Of the New Eng
land states that his state beat every
other state of the Union in apples,
This claim will be contested vigor-
ously at the land show. Not only will
there be famous apples from New
Hampshire, but apples from Canada,
Virginia and Arkansas, from Oregon,
Washington and Colorado. There will
be spirited rivalry on the part of the
Northern Spy. the Spitzenburgs and
Jonathans and the Northern Pippins
There is to be a prize irrigation ode
hOnOring the science and practice of
agriculture. 1t will be sung by 200
voices. There are to be many other
songs of the soil besides.