The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-10-22
ARENA EVENTS, POULTRY AND FIELD CROPS
MOST CREDTABLY REPRESENTED
Nine Floats Entered by Eight Different Schools and the
Tomato Club Center of Admitting Throngs. First
Place Won by Lydia Mill School of Clinton.

county, the forage products and can
ned products being shown up to con-
spicuous advantage. These displays
were intended to demonstrate that the
farmer of Laurens county can raise
almost everything that he needs at
Rome and that his cotton can be re-
served as money crop to be sold
when the condition of the market most
justifies. Mr.. j. w. Martin won the
first prize in this department of the
fair and Mr.. Carl Fuller won second
place. Mr.. p. b. Bailey and Mr.. ID. A.
Glenn were the other two gentlemen
making displays in this department,
Mr.. Glenn showing a very original
moving display, the wagon bearing
the display being built in Laurens
county
The display Of Mr.. Martin consisted
of fourteen varieties of hay: peavine,
shucks, fodder. stover, Mermuda, crab
gress, Japan, wheat, oats, cudzoo, rag
weed, alfalfa, Johnson grass and
vetch; dairy and beef type of cattle;
lard hog and bacon hog; in poultry
he had bakers, present fryers, "pros-
ective Christmas flyers; in sheep,
he had wool and mutton in goats.
mutton, milk and mohair; in vegeta-
h!es, beans. potatoes both sweet and
Irish; egg plant, okra, two varieties
turnips, carrots, beets, roasting ears
| radish, onion. Iii canned goods he had
eleven varieties In hides he had
home tanned raw hides. beef, sheep
and goat hide; in grains, yellow corn,
ite corn oats, wheat, rye, barley,
its, grapes, walnuts, hickory
nuts, persimmons; in money crops"
stalk and bale each of long and short
staple cotton; pair of yard dogs, pea
nuts and hay, speckle and unknown
peas, long and short staple cotton
seed, bale Of mohair
Mr.. Carl Fuller, the winner Of sec
| ond place, had the following: Berk-
shire hog and Duroc Jersey hog, White
Leghorn chickens, hunting equipment,
home made feed basket, varieties of
corn, 3 varieties of sweet potatoes,
thrashed wheat and oats and sheath of
each, varieties of cane seed, 10
stalks Of sorghum; hay crops-unbal-
ed, burr clover, red clover Japan
clover, alfalfa, native vetch, hairy
vetch, Bermuda, rape, Japan millet,
German millet, crab grass; baled hays
-shucks, wheat straw, sorghum, pea
hulls; varieties of turnips, tomatoes.
spring and fall Irish potatoes, satisfy.
z varieties of beets, 3 varieties of
beans, 2 varieties of onions, cabbage
and collards, mustard, carrots, pars-
nips, egg plant, sorghum syrup, va
rieties of fancy gourds, sun flower, 2
varieties of dahlia, 2 kinds of pepper,
kinds of roses, cape jesamine ferns
Japan pears, Pinson apple, winter ap-
pie, chufas, 2 kinds OF Watermelon
pumpkin, winter squash summer
squash, tallow, beeswax, section honey,
! butter and eggs, old hams. second
crop of grapes, 3 varieties of cane seed
mole beans and sage, pomegranate,
winter grapes, large hornet nest, wasp
nest and three moss, hand knitted
centerpiece
Canned Articles.
Sour cucumber pickle, canned beans,
green tomato chow chow, sweet goose
plum pickle, sweet Japan plum pickle
sweet peach pickle, sour Japan plum
, Pickle, white canned peach. yellow
canned peach, pear, Japan Plum. seed
ed damsons, Niaiara grapes, blackber-
ries' tomatoes, peach marmaadc fig
marmalade. muscadne vinegar.
Corn and Tomato Clubs.
The corn and tomato club girls had
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