The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-11-26
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CINDERELLA CARRIAGES
DIR. Tydings offered some prizes for
the best pumpkins grown from seed
bought at his store. We do not know
who or from what seed they were
grown, but we have never seen more
or finer pumpkins than are shown this
season at the fair-great yellow, per-
fectly formed fellows, almost as big
as the one used by the fairy god
mother to build Cinderella's carriage
out of. Of course this is not water
melon time, but there are at least a
half dozen from different sections,
one of which will weigh 30 pounds,
and is said to be ripe and fine.
VELVET BEANS IN EVIDENCE
The huge velvet bean crop, now just
ripening, which has been the heaviest
in years in the county, is well repre-
sented with many fine samples of this
article, which is one of Florida's
greatest assets in the farming line.
HARD WOOD EXHIBITS
Some one with view to showing
the many hard woods of the county
has an exhibit of the different woods
from our forests, and in this connec-
ton, he would like to mention the
Fellowship school exhibit of woods,
there being, if we remember correctly,
more than so varieties, gathered from
the forests, cut and labeled by the
boys of that school.
LIME AND CRUSHED ROCK
The Florida Lime Company has a
fine exhibit and a most substantial
one of its products and the Woodmar
Sand & Stone Co., Mr.. A. I. Thomas,
has an excellent display of crushed
roch and road building materials.
MARION MAY BE PROUD OF HER
FARMER BOYS
In the horticultural building the
boys corn clubs exhibit is made, and
well may the boys of the county be
proud of the results of their thrift,
for it is the best exhibit of corn ever
made in the county.
FINE CITRUS FRUIT
The citrus fruit exhibit is fine and
was made almost exclusively by the
Ocala Citrus Association and Messrs.
Wartmann and Crosby of Citra.
FLORIDA FLOWERS
The prettiest thing in this room
was the beautiful and extensive ex-
hibit of growing flowers and plants
made by Mr.. John Heintz of the Ocala
greenhouse, to which were added var
ious exhibits of cut flowers by other
individuals, notably the roses, pink
and white Killarneys, the w. r. Smith
and Seminole Queen, four of the
best known and highly prizes varie-
ties.
BLUE RIBBON FOR BLITCHTON
Mr.. John Coulter of Blitchton in
his agricultural exhibit captured the
blue ribbon for the best rice. Mr..
Coulter grew so bushels on an acre
of land without irrigation. He also
exhibited some fine oats from field
that produced forty bushels per acre.
HUNDREDS OF HENS
The poultry houses were well filled.
There were almost hundreds of differ
ent exhibits and some of as fine birds
as were ever seen in the county. There
was everything in the poultry line
from the tiny bantam family of
mother, father and baby to the largest
bronze turkeys. Scattered through
the building were a lot of pets, white
and black rabbits, little woody poodle
dogs, pretty family of Maltese cats,
many pigeons, guinea pigs, puppies,
raccoons, etc.
LIVE STOCK
Probably the finest exhibit of all
at the fair this season is that of the
live stock department. The pens are
almost all filed and never have we
seen a finer lot of hogs, cows, horses,
mules, sheep and goats than are to be
seen this year. Finest of all, prob
ably, are the hogs, and western
packer would surely open his eyes to
see the huge fellows of almost every
known breed, all seemingly, doing
equally as well. Some of the breeds
show greatest weight for meat hogs,
some show huge hams, others long
reach of side meat, some famous for
their prolific qualities, yet others for
marvelously rapid growth, etc., etc.,
and all seemingly doing well in our
all the year around Florida climate.
Surely, this is hog and cattle coun-
try.
HORSES AND MULES
The mule colts were especially in
teresting and show what can be done
in this line. Horses were never so