The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-07-24
NEXT COUNTY
FAIR WILL Be
GREAT SUCCESS
PLANS ALREADY BEING MADE
FOR EXHIBIT
Will Be Held in Lakeland Next Win
ter and Will Be Carried Out
on Big Scale

county to pull together and make
the Polk county fair for next Feb
ruary grand success. This fair
is by the farmers and for the farm
ers of Polk county and by lending
it our hearty cooperation and action
we can not only derive incalculable
benefit ourselves, by finding out
what our neighbors can grow and
produce just over the fence or across
the road, but we bring home to the
other people of and outside of the
county just how good this particular
county is in an agricultural and hor
ticultural way.
1t makes no difference what you
are growing or raising If it has
commercial value you can compete
for premium.
Watch for our premium lists,
which appear in the Evening Tele-
gram, Friday of each week, or bet
ter still write to the secretary, Mr.
T.. r. Schurman for the premiums
in which you are particularly in
| terested
This year this fair is inclusive
and not exclusive in any particular.
We have endeavored to include ev-
erything grown or raised on the
farm and many other hings made
for home use or for sale whenever
it was practical to do so. This has
resulted in our premiums seeming
small in many cases. Our idea be-
ing to make it possible for every
grower and his family to be repre-
sented by an exhibit in some line.
This will also help make the COM
petition within classes greater and
the honor of blue ribbon the more
to be appreciated. While at the
same time we have tried to make
the premiums large enough to easily
pay the cost of exhibiting.
The time to begin preparing for
the fair is now. Some of the crops
are already gathered and no more
of them will be grown before next
February. Save the best to enter
for the fair. 1t will soon be time
to cut forage for fall Much of the
corn is already in. Look over the
following list of premiums on ebay
and forage crops" and then select
your best and lay it by for the fair.
Hay and Forage Crops
Amt of
Premium
Best bale of hay made from
Bermuda grass ........$2 90
2 Best bale of hay made from
beggar weed ......... 200
Best bale of hay made from
pea vine ............. 200
Best bale of hay made from
crowsfoot ..n... ,... 100
: Best bale Of hay made from
crab grass ...... 80. : %
6 Best bale of hay made from
Johnson grass So. 49,. 200
One dollar each is offered
for the above numbers
when exhibited in the
form Of bundles. ..... 100
! 7 Best bale of corn stover.. 200
Best bale of rice straw. -. 200
Best bale of hay made from
any grass not mentioned 200
10 Best bundle of guinea grass 200
IN Best bundle of Para grass 90
~ Best bundle of alfalfa go. ] 90
13 Best bundle of red clover. 100
IA Best bundle Of any other
hay plant not mentioned 100
Is Best bushel of silage. ... 200
16 Best bundle of oats. .... 200
II Second best bundle of oats !. 90
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10 Best bundle of rape 49,. 200
20 Best bundle of kaffir corn. 200
21 Best bundle of millet. 49,. 200
% Best bundle of peanut vine 200
% Best bundle of velvet bean 200
"a Best bundle of Japanese
cane ... ........... 200
% Best bundle Of rye ...... 200
26 Best bundle of corn fodder 100
q Best single bundle of all
forage plants exhibited 100
% Best single bundle of cured
sorghum 80. ......... 100
20 Best collection in exhibit
Of hay and forage, all to
be from the same farm
and not less than six va
rieties 49,. .....,.... 10 30
Note-All bundles shall be not