The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-11-26

something to the farmer. A Careless"
weed tree; we say tree, for it is hard
ly stalk or bush. The plant is more
than 18 feet high, almost foot thru
at the ground and man could stand
on two of the limbs, six feet from the
ground. There is bunch of "dog"
fennel that is a record breaker, as
well as some beggarweed, the latter
plant being the only one of the three
that has any value, and is one of the
states best rough forage crops. The
display of rice is fine one and the
company raised big field of it, but
it did not get the blue ribbon, that go
ing to Mr.. Coulter of Blitchton on his
rice display. Some huge corn, cane
and many other products are shown
by the Mucland Farms, and the ar
rangement of the exhibit attracts at
tention.
ENTIRE COUNTY IN EXHIBIT OF
THREE FARMS.
The Kendrick exhibit made by
Messrs. Peter Loos and M. L. and J.
NJ. Fennell (Mr. j. NJ. Fennell being
the farmer who had the attractive
Hcat in the parade) have an exhibit
equal to some we have seen in an en-
tire county. They had almost every
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or eight kinds of baled forage stuff,
as many more of grain in sheaves,
seven kinds of sweet potatoes chow
many of you knew there were so
many grown; four kinds of sugar
cane, pumpkins, cabbage and collards;
canned stuffs of all kinds, bottled and
preserved articles, beans and peas;
hickory and pecan nuts; vel vet beans,
arrow root, etc., etc. The Fennels left
the iron works few years ago, went
to the country and are making good
on their farm. Mr.. Loos has been
here forever" some one said, and
has always made good living on his
farm.
IMMENSE OKRA
Some one else exhibited stalks of
bamboo 40 or so feet long. There
was couple of stalks Of okra, %
feet long, and well matured pod Of
greed okra right on the top Of one.
This seems incredible, but the stalks
can yet be seen.
CASSAVA AND ARROWROOT
A stalk or cluster. of stalks of cas-
sava was exhibited, and the aggre-
gate of the tubers would fill a bushel
basket, they being spread all around
the roots to represent as near as pos
sible the natural position when the
stalk was standing in the field. This
cassava and the arrowroot, referred
to above, were great stand-bys of the
Indians of long ago and contain fine
bread stuff starches and grow very
prolific in Florida.
MARION COUNTY HAY
Never have we seen such exhibits of
hay. (By hay we mean all baled for
ages). There seemed to be no end
Of it. Grab grass and blue grass and
timothy, peayine and pinder vine, oats
and rye stray, rice straw, natal hay
and several vines and grasses that we
do not know the names of.
CORN rs KING
Corn is king in Marion county this
year, of certainty. If you don't be-
lieve all you have seen in the papers
about it, just go out and Sc the
samples" of the crop. Great white
ears and golden ears and red ones
and vari-colored ones, filled out in
way to make an Iowa corn grower
real jealous, and there is such
quantity of the staples shown there,
shelled exhibits, exhibits on the ear
and on the stalk and ground into meal
and grits, cracked and in many other
forms that it certainly makes a man
looking for a farming location sit up
6iAA bhhC nObANCs
BUT COTTON is ONLY Al BARON
Old King Cotton is only shown this
year with few stalks on which the
bursting bolls may be seen, and few
exhibits of lint. George Giles who
usually exhibits a few bales, has been
so busy with his knitting mill that he
did not make his usual exhibit and
then we have sneaking idea that
George had put most of his bales on
the top price cotton market and did
not have as many to spare as usual.
LONG SWEETENING
One thing among others that Mar
ion county excells in is sugar cane,
and every kind of the sugar produc-
ing crop grows well here. The fair
this year shows an unusually large
exhibit of cane, in all varieties and
all of it fine. Some of the stalks were
exceptionally tall, and an acre of such
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