Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-16
DAIRY AND FOOD BUREAU
!: HAS EXHIBIT At FAIR
SHOWS Best Apparatus for Testing
and Handling Milk and of
Feeding Stock.
CREAMERIEs MAKE PROGRESS
Growth OF Business In Virginia in
Past Few Years Is Revelation to
ftsitors-Prizes Won by Bellwood
Farm Are on Display.

The exhibit of the Daiir,. and Food
Division of the State Department of
Agriculture has been gathering place
Tor datrymcn visiting the State Fair.
The display includes the latest and
best patterns of dairy utensils and milk
testing apparatus: samples of feeds
winch are so arranged that the COM
ParatiVe feeding values of the ready
mixed and home made feeds can be
readily seen and the advantages of the
nome made mixtures realized, and
charts showing the increase in pro-
duction any dairyman can secure from
ms cows by breeding up" hig herd.
model of home made sllo' occu-
pies conspicuous place In the exhibit
and liz attracting the attention of every
FARMER who views il. Dairy Instruc-
tors Howard. Rowe and Stahl. who are
In charge OF the dairy exhibit, say
these silos can bc constructed for the
remarkably small cost OF less than 81
per ton capacity. They are distributing
4 sio bulletin containing the figures
10 prove their claim.
Barn plans, lis, OF balanced rations
Tor dairy cows and for horses ANALYSES
OF foods and information on all man
nor or subjects are contained i'm the
literature distributed at the booth.
SHOW SAMPLES OF
ADULTERATED FOOD
The food exhibit is most attractive
ana instructive. showing samples of
hnu!terated foods and how freely some
oi inc manufacturers resort to the use
OF coal tar dyes to turn out havors
Inc seed exhibit liz especially instrlc.
i've and serves as an illustration to
the FARMER OF the Importance of buy ing
standard. guaranteed seed for his irons
botanist French and his assistant Miss
Crowley, preside over tho seed cxhibit
ana theT have ben kept busy explain
ing TO the farmers how they can have
'hcif seed tested by the department
Il without charge
i IN" sanitary rroccrs' aud butchers
Il 'nsp!nN cases and tho sanitary oyster
distributing cans add greatly to the
appearance OF the exhibit ana arc in
t.nHcd to show the public, as we'll as
\ INC merchants handling groceries,
4 meats ana oysters how these and Other
looos may 10" properly protected from,
contamination while awaiting sale,
GREAT PROGRESS Is MADE
4 IN CREAMERY INDUSTRY
ne display OF Virginia made cream
cry butter and cheese is a revelation.
ana especially the remarkable increase
In the past few years Of the ou,n,, ~
'he virginia creamcries The dove lon
mcnt or this industry IL iugeniously
Illustrated by pyramids, starting with
me small pyramid showing the pro-
AUCTION in 1905. then for .ucc, edine
- 4S'.S uH'il the pyramid Tor the 1919
production looms above the others like
modern sky-scraper above !s pipmv
ne!Ehbors Creamery Instructor How
ard says 1915 Will prove he banner
year In Virginia creamery production
! and his estimate may be regarded as
authoritative
Bottermakcr Wilde OF the >.bcnarle
'~caMery, Charlottesville. sustained
ms reputation. gained last year. for
IN .-hest-scorlns butter in he disnIav
"nd-Won for the second time and pcr-
mirnenty the handsome silver !oy!r L
cupkfven by Dairy and Food Commits
sinner Purcell TO the hutternaker and
creamery exhibiting the highest scor-
4 ing butter in the contest Pulaski
creamery came second. AMI Waynes-
81 horo creamery third III the contest
- while Broadway carried Of the Monors
- for the best cheese. other COMPETING.
creame-ies gained for their butter dis
plays. scores which viii rank Virc!ui
creamery butter alongside # the best
Northern and Western butter sold on
any market.
Perhaps the most unusua! and
= unique display in the dairy and food en-
hibit are the insignia Of awards. or
parts OF them. made by the Panama
= Pacific Internal; ioual Exhibition at san
4 Francisco 10 "Bcllwood Single Viz
g!nia Farm Exhibit" That a single
I Virginia farm should have successfully
> carried OFF the highest awards for spc-
cihc agricultural products at this
greatest o! international exhibitions is
Regarded as remarkable achieve
ant