Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-01-08
AWARDS MADE YESTERDAY.
Charles Starck Wins Sweepstakes on
Truck and Poultry.

Charles Starck. one of the leading
ton, yesterday carried away the sweep
stakes for the best general display of
farm products and was award the first
prize, 800 in cash. He also carried
away the poultry sweepstakes. a $50 cash
prize ging with it. A.. y. Tandy of Tan
dy Station followed a close second, and
the competition between the exhibits was
decided on a basis of better display. Mr..
Starck for the second time carried away
the first prize in agricultural display IN
the Brownsville Midwinter Fair, having
won the same hOnors last year.
The judges in the agricultural exhibits
were DR.. II. Fl. Harrington, agricultural
director for the Frisco lines; Professor
q. II. Alvord, superintendent Of the Taft
farm at Portland, and William Ger
hardt Of Corpus Christi.
Mr.. Starck's display is attractively ar
ranged in an individual tent. opening
into the Agricultural tent. He has an
exhibit containing a great variety Of
vegetables, and those who saw it agreed
that it is one Of the pretticst and most
unusual sights they had ever seen. Mr..
starck has forty different varieties of
vegetables. the most Of them perfect. In
Guided in the list are roasting ears.
citrOn melon, kOhlrabe, green peas i'm
bloom, new Irish potatoes, parsnipS, fri
jOles, curley parsley, young celery, egg
plant, bell peppers. TabaScO peppers,
young cSchallOt onions. beets. carrots.
crcsS, cndive. head lettuce. tomatoes.
caulifiOwcrS. fiat Dutch cabbage, ruta
baga, turnipS, sweet potatoes and seven
varieties of radishes.
Mr.. Tandy has fftv-four varieties Of
farm products in his exhibit. extending
his display into some fields which Mr..
Starck did not enter. He is one Of the
best and most successful farmers in the
Lower Rio Grande valley. and has sew
eral times carried away first prize at the
Midwintcr Fair for agricultural dis
plays. lie had on display some Of the
most perfect specimens of cabbage Of
the Flat Dutch, Volga. red and Savoy
varieties ever seen here. He has the
only specimen of artichOke at the fair
In his exhibit are several varieties of
turnipS, some of them Of enormous size
Mr.. Tandy carried away several first
prizes in single entries.
Other than the displays Of Mr.. Starck
and Mr.. Tandy there were no compcti
tors for honors in the display Of general
farm products.
In the Agricultural tent. A. IT. Oar
ling, a farmer Of the Little Indian canal
section, has on display a very unusual
stalk Of cotton. 1t is six and 4 half feet
high, has a nine foot spread, and on its
branches there can be seen every stage of
the cotton bOll'S growth. There are
squares. the first growth. white bios
SONS. red blossoms. the boil, and the cot
ton matured and ready to pick.
The list Of awards i'm this and other
departments will be published later. BE
sides Mr.. Starck and Mr.. Tandy, prize
winners in the agriculture contest were
George Fcderolf, A. II. Darling. y. II.
AXSOm. John French. G. Il. Rhodes. Fred
G. :. Morton.
Harlingcn sent the best bale Of alfalfa
hay. A. w. Cunningham being the win
ncr.
j. ID. Kennedy Of Mercedes carried off
the broom corn hOnOrs with q fine eX-
hibit.
Charles Starck's display Of sugar cano
took The Heralds so. and also the pre-
miumS for the best general exhibit Of
and Of cotton in the lint.
CITRUS FRUITS.
In the citrus fruit line. Mrs. w. II.
Adams took prizes with some very fine
Dugat oranges and lemons.
w. f. bennett took first prize for KUN
quatS. and also won - for the best dis
play of citrus fruits.