The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-10-17
SHOWS WHAT VIRGINIA
| CAN PRODUCE IN FOODS
Exhibit of Dairy and Food Division AT
State Fair Was Reve-
Iation.
bE1LwooD HoNoRs ATTRACT
Unique Display Was That Of Insigndas
From pnnAlna Exposition Earned
BY Chesterfield Single Farm FIX
hibdt-

Inc exuDlt Oh the DAIRY ana AOcu
kfv4aon OF the state Department Of
Agriculture was great gathering
place for the dairymen visiting the
state fair during the week The dis
hay included the latest and best
'atterns OF dairy utensils, separators.
burns, milk coolers, dairy scales and
mix testing apparatus. Samples Of
eeds were 80 arranged that the COM
baratfve feeding values OF the ready
mixed and homemade feeds could be
eadily seen and the advantages of
Che homemade mixtures realized
Charts showed the increase in pro-
uction any dairyrnan can secure from
pie cows by breeding up his herd
A model OF a Homemade Siio"
occupied n conspicuous place in the
>1hibit and attracted the attention Of
very farmer who viewed IT, Dairy
Instructors Howard, Rowe and Stahl
a charge OF the dairy exhibit, say
hese silos can he constructed for the
remarkably small cost OF less than
me dollar per ton capacity. They
vail furnish TO all applicants n silo
iullet1n containing the figures TO
rove their claim and show how to
ufld one. Barn plans. lists of bal
need rations for dairy cows and for
lorses, analyses of foods and feeds
nd information on all manner Of
objects are contained in the ltera-
rre distributed.
An Instructive Exhibit.
The food exhibit ia most attractive
Ind Instructive, showing samples Of
dulterated foods and how freely some
the manufacturers resort To the
Sc OF coal tar dyes TO turn out straw
errv favors. without strawberries
berry drinks whose color Is the only
elation the product bears to the true
berry Juice, etc. the many edible by
roducts obtained from corn and the
economy OF giving milk a more proui-
ent place in the daily diet than Is
Generally accorded T..
The seed exhibit is specially in
kructive and serves as splendid H.
istratton to the farmer for buying
dard, guaranteed seed for hts
pops. Bo.anist French and his as
lsean,. Mas Crowley. presided over
he seed exhibit, and they were kept
uay explaining 10 the farmers how
hey can have their seed tested by the
apartment without charge. as we'll as
he advantage they secure in awaiting
themselves OF this service
Sanitary Display Gases.
The sanitary Erocers' and butchers
i1piay cases and the So n!tary oyster
is.r4 buttng can added greatly to tina
appearance Of the exhibit. They show
"a the public, as we'll as the mer-
hants handling groceries meats
ysters. etc. how these and other foods
hay be properly protected from con-
hmina.ton while awaiting sale
The display OF Virginia made
rsarnery butter and cheese was a
svslation. and especially the re-
harkable increase IN tbs past few
oarS Of the output Of the Virginia
reAmeriee. The development OF this
Industry was ingeniously Illustrated
~ pyramids. starting with the small
yran1id showing the production IN
eos. then for succeeding periods un-
n the pyramid for the 1914 produc-
Ion looms above the others like a
hodern sky-ecraper above It's rygr1y
eighhors
Creamery Instructor Howard says
as Will prove the banner year in
Firginia creamery production. and his
stimate may be regarded as authori-
htive, for he has done more to help
ecure the splendid Increase IN this
ndustry than any other one man in
he State.
Cup For Butter to AlbemArie.
Bnttermaker Wilde, of the Abe
hnrie Creamy, Charlottesville, sustain
"a his reputation gained last year for
he best scoring butter in the display
I'd won for the second time and
|trmanantty the handsome silver low
hx cup given by Dairy and Food
Commissioner Purcell to the butter
haker and creamery exhibiting the
highest scoring butter in the contest
Pulaski Creamery comes second
Ind Waynesboro Creamery third in
he contest while Broadway carried
In the honors for the best cheese
bther competing creameries gained
pr their butter displays scores which
Etfi rank Virginia Creamery butter
longside OF the best Northern and
Western butter sold on any market.
he whole butter display was pur-
hased by one Of the leading retail
rocery stores of Richmond and will
Il offered for sale by this Arm.
Bellwood Farm Honors Shown.
Perhaps the most unusual and
Unique display in the dairy and food
xhibit are the insignia Of awards, or
arts OF them, made by the Panama
aclfc Exhibition at San Francisco TO
Bellwood Single Virginia Farm Elk
itit.' That a single Virginia farm
hould have successfully carried off
he highest awards for specific agri-
ultural products at this greatest of
International exhibitions makes every
rue son of Virginia feel a pardonable
ride In the achievement.
A full knowledge and appreciation
what the Bellwoods have accom-
lished must spur the Virginia farm
rs on to greater efforts and greater
achievements. and while these men
no have earned and gained recogni-
on OF their merit, have done more
han their part in letting the world
now the possibilities OF Virginia agri-
,lture, neither their heads nor their
carts have been turned by their sue
esscs
They are back between plowshares
kady to continue their work and to
elcome the people that they met in
he West and bid to come to the
d State and pitch their tents along
de- The Bellwoods, father and sons.
ave earned admiration and congratu
lions. and they are being ungrudg-
bgly extended to them.