The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-10-22
GREAT PREPARATIONS
FOR MARYLAND WEEK
Planned to Make Celebration Week,
Nov. 1921, a Record Breake" in
Attendance and Exhibits.

Maryland Week this year a ret ord
breaker in point of attendance: rom
the counties of Maryland. Ln, an g
other things, in addition to unusual
excellence of exhibits, railroads have
been asked to establish excursion
rates for the week, and merchants
of Baltimore will be invited to con-
duct one big bargain day in all
stores for the benefit of county visi-
tors There will be entertainment of
course, and Il general appeal will be
issued to all Iesldeuc3 of Baltimore
to seize the opportunity to invite
their country friends and relatives
who otherwise might not attend, for
house parties.
Every energy will be directed to-
ward the county attendance. The
press of the State generally Will be
asked to promote local organization
along this line, and the managers of
the event look forward to huge
movement toward the common cen
ter, from every town and village and
from every farm section of the good
Old State.
The Maryland Week Exhibition
will be held at the Fifth Regiment
Armory on Nov. 1921. 1t will be,
as last year, under the auspices of
the Maryland State Horticultural So
,
zation will be the Maryland Crop I'M
provement Association, Maryland
| State Dairymen's Association and
| Maryland State Beekeepers' Associa-
ton. In the order named, these or
! ganizations will hold their annual
meetings on Wednesday, Thursday,
| Friday and Saturday, with three ses-
sions daily, in the Armory gymnasi-
um. The formal opening on Tues
day night will be with an appropriate
program in which national govern
ment, State, city and various rural
interests will be represented.
Secretary T. B. Symons, of the
| Horticultural Society, has just re-
turned from a trip through Western
!. Maryland, and finds that there, as
! in other parts of the State, growers
are saving a nice lot of fruit for the
exhibition. putting it in cold storage
to be ready for the event. The pre-
miums this year, list of which can
be obtained by addressing the Secre-
tary of either organization at Col
lege Park, are larger and more~
erous than ever, and competitisn Will
| be splendid. following the fin2 sue
cess of last year. Oranges N Far !
mers' Clubs desiring to ents RIse
/ Club EXHIBIT Contest, snouls hoe =
the Secretary at once so tha4 space
can be reserved.
The prizes for club exhibits have
7 likewise been increased, and in ad-
dition, prizes are offered for Jail eX-
hibits in each club exhibit, SO that
| such an exhibit can be made by any
organization with practically no
cost.
4 floor plan has been prepa red for
the exhibition that will show the
resources of Maryland as they never
have been shown before. In the cen
ter, surrounded by stately columns,
will be a huge floral exhibit designed
by the most original minds in Mary
lands Horticulture, and for this ex-
hibit prize flowers of all kinds are
being carefully brought to perfec-
| ton by expert treatment. Thanking
| the floral exhibits and backing up to
the rear of the immense hall will be
the fruits, farm products and pro-
ducts of the Maryland apiary, in ar
rangement orderly and graded, in
quantity profuse to point of extrava-
gance. Nothing that grows in our
State will be lacking.
In one corner of the hall the
Armory officials have granted extra
ordinary permission for the purpose
the State Dairymen will have a
stable of half dozen fine cows, which
will be fed, cared for, and milked for
the purpose of showing results of
scientific care both in food value
and purity of the milk supply.
The COWS will be placed on false
floor of zinc, bedded with Isawdust,
and the dairymen have undertaken
to prove to the Armory Commission
and all who are interested that sta
bling can be made as cleanly for an
indoor exhibit as in the highest class
dairies. The cows will be MIXED
morning and evening, by mechanical
means, the whole process being ex-
posed to view.
Local oranges, societies Of various
sorts or groups of individuals intend
ing to be present at Maryland Week
are requested to notify SECRETARY Sy-
mons at College Park, so that proper
announcement may be made and any
necessary arrangements carried for
ward for their entertainment. If
sufficient numbers attend from vari-
Gus sections, it is planned to ar
range community gatherings during
the week. Towns and sections send
ing enough representative may Sc
cure special car or train, by applica-
tion through the secretary, to the
railroad interested.
..Old papers for WRAPPING, 1Oc.
hundred, at The Banner office. =
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