The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-09-21
MORROW COUNTY
At TIE EXPOSITION
BY Oscar +. Freytag, Chief of Agri.
culture. Oregon Commission, At
the Panama-Pacific-I -Interna-
tiOnal Exposition.

What Morrow County can do was
expressed by the abundant exhibit of
superior grains and grasses and other
! fine exhibit material that was contri-
buted by her farmer citizens two
years ago, first for use at the Sc
cond Annual Morrow County Fair.
the success of which encouraged an
exhibit at the State Fair, where first
prize was carried off with fiattering
margin. The land show at Portland
was the next scene of victory, and
then after being rearranged, this
much be-ribboned and priced exhibit
was sent on to San Francisco, where
it was a part of the splendid show
ing of the resources of the state of
Oregon at the Panama Exposition.
After the re-arrangement made ne
cessary by the many landings, part
of the specimens were used in the
Eastern Oregon booth in the Oregon
Building where no exhibits were ele-
gible, to award, and the remainder
was placed in the Palace of Agricul-
( re, where al exhibits " entered
fir award Eere was real ompeti-
tion, for many states and many for
| iegn countries wed with each other
| for highest standing in exhibits. A
wards were made absolutely on merit
the Jury composed of men who were
authorities in their line.
Oregon took back seat for no one,
either for beauty of products, or for
rare excellence, and Morrow County's
10 foot wild rye grass and other fine
grasses, helped to get the highest pos
sible award, Medal of Honor for Ore
CONS forage crops.
Morrow County standing alone,
without personal representation car
ried off more medals and diplomas
than any other Eastern Oregon Coun-
ty. The secret of this? The pro-
ducts talked for themselves to the
Jury, but were the source of much
questioning by the interested visitors,
WIN NdHlCu W hHON lliOi obOuS AAcA-
row County. The Chief of Agricul-
ture could give a good report of this
prosperous county and of the promi-
nent citizens who are working always
with it's interests at heart.
1t was a great Fair, and Morrow
County did her part in getting Ore
gon before the world, and at the
same time she has made some noise
for her own community.
The working of a great Interna-
tional Exposition is necessarily te-
dious, but the awards will finally
reach the entrants. just how soon it
is impossible to predict, a matter of
few weeks or months however.
The abundant success of Morrow
County in this, the broadest field of
competition of many years, should spur
the people onto a more enthusiastic
endeavor to excel, each in his particu-
lar line. The great and lasting good
of all Fairs is the incentive to pro-
gress, and at the annual county fair
the inspiration may be found by COM
petition as we'll as in the larger.
Exhibits such as Morrow county
can produce and has produced are
sure to help the county for the beau
tiful alfalfa, sheaf wheat, oats and
barley tell story of a good stock
country, with hogs and hens running
a close second, and picture comes
into the ennid of the rolling hills, and
a vast expanse of wheat fields. To
us who know it, into the picture
comes the pretty metropolis of the
county. nestled at the head of Val
ley surrounded by low lying, shell
tering hills.