Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-06-11
STATE TO BE REPRESENTED.
Steps Taken to Have N. C. Products
&C Panama Exposition.

ce0pe 1Ak0M 70 nave Ne Ce EFO0uCES
at Panama Exposition.
Active work has begun to secure q
comprehensive and accurate display of
North Carolina's potential resources.
and products of all kinds at the Pana
ma Pacific International Exposition at
San Francisco, Cal, February 10th to
December 2, 1915. IN this most Inn
portant movement the agricultural de-
partment. the commissioners appoint
ed by Governor Craig to represent
North Carolina, the great industries
and the people of the State are joining
hands in order to make display of
the commonwealth which will be at
once worthy, attractive and convino-
ing.
| The agricultural department will set
out the agricultural resources, the
woods and timbers, the minerals, the
building stones and gems, and it viii
not only avail itself of the rich re-
sources of its museum, by far the fin
est south of Washington, but will sup.
plement these by fresh collections of
corn, small grain, grasses, cotton, to-
bacco, peanuts and other crops. II
will be left to the great textile and
tobacco manufacturing interests to IL
Illustrate the manufactured products of
cotton wool and tobacco.
The agricultural department desires
that in each county specimens of the.
: best crops shall be carefully harvested
and prepared and due notice given SO
these can be collected. In the case of
small grain the samples should be Sc
lected and put up in the sheaf, not
only as to length of stalk, but size OF
heals, and there should be two speci-
mems of each crop, so one can be sent
to the exposition and the other used
by the department in other parts of
the country and in the museum. There
should be also two samples of the
grain, half a bushel of each. Two
samples of grasses, clover and vetch
should be prepared in the same way.
AS to corn, five ears of any notable
crop or variety. should be saved.
/ North Carolina leads the world in the
yield of corn per acre, 239 bushels
1 having been gathered.
It is of particular Importance that
fine specimens of cotton and tobace3
should be secured. North Carolina
holds the record for cotton production,
seven bales on two acres, and the
State leads all in the average yield to
the acre, last year this being 30
( pounds of line. Every part of the
State where tobacco is grown should
see that meritorious specimens are Sc
cured. In all cases the department
4 should be notified by the growers
whose products are to be represented
in what will be the most important ex-
position to the South ever held; truly
an occasion of opportunity for this
section Of the country and certainly
for North Carolina, which offers so
great variety of advantages.
Another important exhibit will be
of apples, Twice this State has won
the United States championship as to
apples, and it is hence doubly import
ant to make a fine showing of this val
liable and profitable fruit The agri-
cultural department will at once be-
gin to look after the orchards, having
a complete list of the commercial ones
The agricultural department will
make, from its museum largely, dis
play of woods and building stone, but
it desires to get specimens of any
building stones not developed which
are of merit, SO the latter can be pre-
pared for exhibition.
The department also desires infor-
nation as to the location of oak and
poplar trees of notable size, which /
would be impressive in a photograph I
These two timbers are especially i'm
portant because North Carolina sur
passes the Pacific slope in the size of
these trees. Photographs of such
trees should be sent to the department,
in cases where it is convenient to take
them, so they. can go in a picture firm
Illustrating the State. otherwise the
should be informed as to
their location.