New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-09-15
BROWN COUNTY NOT
SEEN AT big FAIR
REVIEW REPORTER WRITES OF
MANY INTERESTING DIS
PLAYS.
FINDS HIS HOME COUNTY LACK
ING IN SPIRIT OF ENTER
PRISE.

This year Minnesota has again taker
foremost place in proving the llinited
fruitfulness of her soil by elaborate and
almost endless exhibits at the State
Fair. In spite of interminable and
drenching rains accompanied by cold.
disheartening weather, on account OF
which many of the States fruit sand
grain experts were making wry faces,
exhibits, especially in Horticulture, have
come in surprising numbers from all
parts of the State so thatsthe Horticul-
tural Building is literally packed.
Never in the States history has the dis
play of apples been so enormous and the
fruit so large and luscious. Upon. in
quiry Secretary Latham of the State
Horticultural Society, and who is in
charge of the fruit exhibits, expressed
the very plausible opinion that the I'M
expected success of fruit. showings this
year is due to the very conditions that
forced the anticipation of failure; that
is, the late spring frosts and continued
rains depriving the trees of, most, of Their
blossoms left just enough blossoms SO
that the conserved vitality of the trees.
under ideal growing weather, produced
fruit of unusal size and quality. A1ths
apples this year are making an unusual
showing the exhibition of plums and 9th
er small fruits has not come up to that
OF last year on account of excessive rot
ting due to extreme moisture
Altho the elaborate apple exhibits do
not give true presentation of the years
crop, the same cannot be said of the
showings OF small grains. The grain ex-
/ hibits, especially of wheat, barley, and
oats, this year are the best that have
ever been given space in the Fairs Agri-
cultural Building. Wheat, especially
is well represented; the unparalleled quail
ties of Blue Stem, Fife, Marquis, Hard
Winter, Bearded Spring, Macaroni, En-
mer (Speltz), and Red Winter being SO
even in the race that it is impossible for
the unsophisticated to presage as to who
will land the Cup. From official weigh
ings that were taken right on the Fair
Grounds it was found that an average
sample of this years cats weighed
thirty-three and half pounds a1husEle.
as against the standard Of :twsl1ty-nine
pounds. Of the common small grains
wheat, barley, and rye have all attained
considerable gain in weight over the
standard, all of which goes to prove that.
damaging as the weather conditions
were to some of the crops, they certainly
were silver lining to the cloud in aug
menting the harvest of small grain.
This years corn exhibits do not come
up to those of other years, corn being
rather late for the Fair. Unofficial
opinion, however, has it that, providing
we have late frost, this year will be
featured by the biggest corn crop in
history.
The exhibits in the various booths
representing the different counties of the
State were good and show that the crop
successes over the State have been equal
as we'll as general. Ye cub reporter al
the Review spent some time locking for
the booth of his home county of Brown,
but after futile effort he was forced
to the conclusion that of the enthusiastic
constellation of represented Counties
initiating their successes and boosting
their possibilities, his was conspicuous
by its absence. Of all the well arranged
and fine exhibits that were found in these
booths none were such that they could
not be successfully rivalled by the pro
ducts of our home agrarian industry
and there is little excuse, in the opinion
Of the Review, for Brown County mot
sufficient local interest for
[lndlng a representative place at sthe
State Fair among her sister counties an
lid her neighbor, Nicollet County.
Minnesota's reputation as being ideal
or the breeding of fine horses, dairy and
beef cattle, bacon and lard hogs, and fm
he propagation of sheep of all descrip-
ions was fully substantiated this year by
plendid exhibits Of these animals. ssThe
'arns and stalls at the Fair Grounhwer.
o filled with the cream of the animal in
iustries that extra buildings had ito be :
allied into requisition and large tentse
ected to shelter them all. amongst the
vest exhibits of the beef cattle were, Mr..
:. =. Potter's (of Springfeld) herd.of
derefords. while the hog industry Of this
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