Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-09-29
FRUITS OF THE SOIL
Exhibit from Cheshire County
Farm Specially Attractive
in Some Years-Apples Ready for Ship
ping Feature of Fruit Show.

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ping Feature of Fruit Show.
The rest of the showing upstairs was
not as large as usual although some fine
quality of canned fruit was on exhibition.
A showing of 81 kinds of jellies by Mrs.
c. D.. Pratt of Bernardston was espe-
cially good. n. e.. Thurber of West
Halifax and f. =. Ball of Ludlow enter
ed some fine maple sugar. Mr.. Balls
was in fancy molds and came from what
is said to be one of the earliest maple
groves in the state. Some toothsome
looking cakes, pies and samples of bread
were entered by the women of this To-
cality and demonstrated their ability in
the culinery line.
The early frost which came the middle
of the month did much to make the
showing in vegetable hall smaller than in
previous years. Three large individual
exhibits helped fill the lower hall and
but for these the showing would have
been much below the average. The
northwest end of the building was taken
up by the exhibit of the Cheshire coun-
ty farm, under the direction of y. a..
Whitman, superintendent. Persons VINO
have attended fairs in all parts of New
England for years said that this exhibit
was as fine as any they ever had seen.
His showing of more than 140 varieties
of vegetables was backed by an array of
monster Green Mountain Giant squashes,
several of them "a inches in diameter.
Some extra fine looking stock beets made
a good showing as did some freak club
gourds, some being more than four feet
long. Ears of Minnesota dent corn were
especially good, being even and with
kernels of uniform size. Mr.. Whitman
showed sweet potatoes from the farm.
The tubers were from some of the 200
hills planted in the spring and from
which he secured a good crop, getting in
many hills at least seven potatoes.
Dana II. Stafford entered a smaller eX-
hibit than usual, having about 125 Varle-
ties. He showed some fine specimens OF
cabbages and cauliflowers and his sweet
corn exhibit and melon entries were es-
pecially good. In the southeast corner
of the hall was the Brattleboro Retreat
exhibit, and although Mr.. Cook, the Re
treat gardener, did not enter in compe-
tition for prizes he had some very fine
vegetables on exhibition. Varieties of
corn hanging in long strings served to
set off the rest of the vegetables and the
variety and color of these served to at
tract the attention of visitors. Banked
above the other vegetables was a line,
extending the entire length of the eN-
hibit, of "a large yellow squashes. aver
aging "a inches in diameter. On the
tables were varieties of egg fruit, onions,
squashes, peppers, cabbases, gourds and
all manner of PRODUCTS of the farm.
The Great Northern railway showed
samples of wheat and other field products
from Minnesota, Washington and Oregon
and boxes of apples from those states
Literature describing the orchards anC
farmlands of the Northwest were dis
tributed by G.. NJ. Grabell, travelling pas
senger agent of the road. Another cen
tire of interest was the showing of pine.
from the state experiment station. Pine:
and spruce from one to four years ole
were show by the rmo Forest ser
vice.
The Brattleboro town farm had a few
entries of squashes, yellow corn and pc
tatoes. The yellow squashes were par
t~icularly good specimens. b, A.. Whit
temore of Guilford showed 10 Hubbard
suuashes grown from one seed, the ag
gregate weight being 114h pounds. TIT
largest squash weighed 24H pounds.
Six schools were represented in tn
school exhibit, The Centreville schoo
showed flowers and vegetables. Distric
No. Z had 10 entries. The Vernon Yves
school showing Of fruits and vegetable
was arranged prettily upon and aroun'
a stand upon which the name of tn
school was spelled out with letters o
evergreen. The North school of Vernon
district No. Z of Dummerston and tn
West Hill school of Dummerston ais
had some fine looking vegetables an
flowers on the benches.
In the fruit department Dana H.. Stat
ford and A. d. and A. r, Miller were tn
largest exhibitors. They showed boxe
and plates of about so varieties of apple
and a few pears, peaches and othe
fruit. The boxes of apples put up i
marketable form by Mr.. Stafford wer
greatly admired and were one of tn
many evidences of intelligent apprecia
ton which he has of the possibilities {
his farm. Very few grapes were show
and the exhibits of peaches, pears an
plums were much smaller than usua
Their scarcity was attributed to the earl
frost. The Bradley hothouses had
beautiful showing of cut flowers on II
middle table, comprising about 75 vari'
ties.
Ames hill was again ahead in the e'
hibitions of apples. e.. b. Barrows ar
French & Hildreth had a large numb
of varieties on plates and although tn
is an off year for apples these specimen
We're fully up to the quality OF thoi
shown at the large exhibit in Grange ha
last year, when apples from all over Il
state were entered. Vermont cranbe
ries were shown from boys owned !
Clarence Wellman of Guilford and T.,
Mather Of West Brattleboro.