Evening journal., 1913-09-11
DELAWARE
COLLEGES
FINE SHOW
Ixhlbit of Live Stock and
Farm Products Feature
at State Fair
REVELATION OF WHAT
INSTITUTION IS DOING


the midway" and all yesterday
afternoon the tents we're crowded
with those interested in farming,
fruit raising and prize hogs and
eattle
The horticulture and grain ex-
aibits are situated in a large tent.
Directly below them, in another tent,
is the exhibit of prize cattle and hogs
from the Delaware College farm.
Professor A. c. Grantham, of Della |
ware College, has charge OF the grain |
exhibit. II consists of 40 samples of /
wheat in the sheaf and thrashed, |
which we're tested at the Delaware |
College Experimental Station last |
year. Twenty exhibits of soy beans |
and soy bean meal and oil extracted |
from soy beans and many other
ca on the college farm and
~ - the experimental station of
the college are also on exhibition.
There is also an apparatus for driv-
ing and testing seed corn which can
be operated by any farmer. Demon
Ions OF the workings OF this
viii be given all during the
fair It is exceedingly simple and
several farmers stated this morning
that they intended to purchase one OF
the machines for their own use.
Another interesting feature OF the
grain exhibit was a practical library
for farmers containing nothing but
simple and practical books which do
not use technical language and con-
tain an abundance of information on
any subject pertaining to The farm
that can be readily found. Photo
graphs and charts of farms in Della
ware. excellent crops of grain and
views of the Delaware College farm
complete the exhibit.
The horticulture exhibit is in
charge of Professor q. A. McCue OF
the college and is especially inter-
esting to those farmers who have had
trouble with the failure of their fruit
crops or have had diseased trees. The
exhibit contains many photographs
Of diseased fruit trees of different
kinds and actual specimens of roots
of trees that are diseased or have
been destroyed for any peculiar
reason. Professor McCue is at the
exhibit all day and any information
will be given regarding such trees
and the proper treatment for them.
The college is very anxious to get
the personal experiences OF fruit
growers who have had diseased or
bad hearing fruit trees in Delaware
and any information regarding the
treatment Of such trees will be glad
ly given. 80,
The exhibit also contains 81 kinds
Of potatoes which we're grown in co
operation with T.. II. Shellcross, o
NcDonough, Del Fifty-two kinds %
grapes grown at the college farm, ma
five plums and q varieties Of tbs
Delaware peach are on exhibition
There are also all the different kind
of berries and other fruits. The pota
to exhibit is also entered in the regu
lar potato exhibit at the fair. and hs
been much admired by all who hav'
seen them. The fruit is one of tn
best features of the fair. and Is prob
ably the finest ever grown In Della
ware.
The fruit exhibit is complete Il
every respect. Grapes, apples, pears
peaches. plums, and other lusciou
fruits all strung out along the exhihi
table. enough TO make one hungry JUS
to glance at them. Grapes Of al
colors, red blue, white, green an
even pink. occupy one end of tn
table The variety Is large, ncluc
lnE NldEdIds AONLbiuf 0dlth az
many other kinds.
The apples also included all color
as we'll as all sizes. and some OF thel
would make persons mouth waite
In the middle of a desert. Winesal
Mann, Noyey's Snow, Maiden Blusl
Smith Cider and many other kind
we're among those exhibited, and eac
were from the best of their kind.
1rn a1c laroQltr
Keiffcr. Washington. Sheldon, Ii
Conte, Lawrence and others helped I
make a display that was tempting
the etreme.
And -Ummmml They ce
tainly we're peaches. Peaches tn
sent forth a delightful odor. we
pleasing TO the eye, and in gre
variety of size. Among them we
late Crawfords, late Elbertas and III
Seedlings, besides others too hume
Gus to mention.
And the watermelons and cant
loupes cap the climax One hue
monster melon reigns supreme fro
the top of the heap, where It has We
first prize for size. and one look al
makes one feel that good big sli
of watermelon is just what We ha
been wanting for long while. Il
conteloupes we're in all sizes al
shapes. and if they taste near as go
as they smell then they are "all to [
good"
Sheep and Swine Show
The sheep and swine department
the Fair, which is il charge of Char
II, Megginson is another attract
exhibit Mr.. Megginson has receiy
entries for eighteen pens of swine.
Of sheep and four Of goats, but III
we're not all in yesterday. In
frst pen at the entrance a large S
reposes in the grass with six lit
white "piglets" playing around her.
is needless to say that this pen is
great attraction for the childr
Several pens further lies a mons
SOW, who is so fat that she is una
to arise, and her head is a mass
fat The exhibit is very interest
to those who know what fine stock
when they see it.
The animals exhibited by Delawi
College. under the special supervis
of Professor Hayward, can easily
termed the finest that have ever b.