Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-10-09

again.
The great service of the Expo.
sitiOns will be to. bring people
thru the West country. 1t will
be to show them what the West
country offers in the way Of agri-
cultural development. That is
the prime reason for the emphasis
which the San Diego Exposition
IS laying upon its agricultural fea-
ures-the most important agri-
cultural exhibit which has ever
)een held. Visitors 10 tie world S
fairs of former years saw farming
machinery standing idle in a great
hall of machinery, and paid little
attention to it because they could
at understand it fully At San
Diego they will see this machinery
but it will be at work in d tract
sown to various grains and grasses
moving up and down the rows,
performing just the same service
it is supposed to perform on the
great farms of the West. OF
such an exhibit they will have az
undertaking. They will look long
and they will remain long. And
those visitors to whom the oper
alton of an 50 or 100 acre farm
can mean little, will also see the
model i'll tenSive farm down the
Alameda where on FIVE acres of
land is grown as much as Oh four
)r five times as much space under
old conditions The effort is to
show that new ideas have come
about, and that today by scientific
methods the farmer can support
himself and his family easily. and
lay aside considerable surplus
ANNUALLY from one of these small
tracts. 1t is a lesson of impor-
lance to the city man who has had
little success and wants to leave
the city, but does not know how to
| get back to the land. Mighty
things have been done in the West
IN recent years, but there are still
mlghtier things to be done, be-
cause the resources of the great
West are hardly tapped as yet.
Similar III spirit is showing old
things i'll new form is the display
If the Southern Counties, whose
citrus orchard lies along the Ala
media directly across from the
model intensive farm. Instead of
seeing great stack of oranges
and lemons and grapefruit, the
visitor will see the citrus fruits
growing on the trees. He will be
able to smell the fragrance of the
blooms. He will discover that the
orange really grows on tree in
stead of growing in which he has
always seen it in the fruit displays
back East.
Adjoining this citru; orchard is
the tea plantation which has beer
brought to San Diego from Ceylon
The 200 tea plants are in charge
of a Singalese ndrseryman, and
turnout 1915 the natives will cult.
the trees and strip from them the
commercial tea leaves, turning
them over to the girls who will
cure them and prepare them fol-
serving to visitors in the pavilion
at the center of the plantation
The progress made in the two
months during which they have
been growing at San Diego. indi.
Gates that Sir Thos Liptons ex
pertinent has been successful and
that tea of good commercial value
can be grown in the Southwest
There are distinct possibilities fol-
great American industry of the
future.
The Painted Desert:
Just within the north gate a
San Diego at the head of the
Isthmus lies the Painted Desert
of the Santa Fe Railway, the most
imporeaut Indian exhibit which
has ever been staged. Starting
out with an estimated cost O.
$500, 900, it is now thought likely
the expenditure by the Santa F.
will considerably exceed tina
, amount. The Desert" is divid
ed by mesa running north ano
south. High in the rock which
covers this mesa on the west slop,
are the habitations of the cliff
jewellers. In cactus filled sands be
low them rise the habita tons O
of the Navajos and the other wan
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