The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-12
BrattlebOro Persons Send
Exhibits to Spring
field, Mass.
THREE LOCAL GIRLS
TO ACT AS JUDGES
Did Best Work in Brattleboro Canning
Club This Fall = County Agent
sweeton Outlines vermont's Part in
Exposition.
Exposition.

Exposition.
People from Wndham county who at
tend the Eastern states Exposition
which opens in Springfield today will
be very much interested in the Vermont
state exhibit and in knowing what
parts were supplied by Windham coun-
ltv farmers. County Agent A w. Sweet
on, who was III Springfield yesterday
arranging the display Of products, has
outlined clearly for the benefit Of The
Reformer readers Vermont's S part IN
the exhibit and the products sent from
this section.
In the first place the Vermont state
exhibit j. located IN the Machinery
building and covers several hundred
square feet Of floor space. The whole
booth is handsomely decorated in green
and white and displays the state seal,
also several American flags. In the
cente- Of the wall at the back of the
booth are two large horns Of plenty
from which are flowing vegetables Of
every description. scattered in more or
less irregular order. Outside of this
| collection there are potatoes, apples,
beans, cranberries, peaches, etc. Over
the horns Of plenty there is a beauti
lfal head Of a large buck which shows
at least IA points.
On the left of the vegetable display
! is a large exhibit of maple products,
and each day there will be a demonstra
tion Of making maple sugar. A large
n m bar Of I0N,ocs e e,,uor ,,.;I L.
placed on sale On the right Of the
horns Of plenty viii be found a large
exhibit of butter and cheese represent
ing the dairy interests Of the state.
1t is expected that the Windham Coun-
" Creamery Improvement cup will be
on exhibition during the latter part of
the show.
Windham county farmers tried to do
their ract by supplying materials for
the exhibit. Dana Stafford of Brattle-
/ boro supplied yellow flint corn, Della
ware potatoes. Hubbard squash. carrots.
parSnips, cabbage, caulifower, beets,
Alberta peaches and she'll beans A. A.
Dunklee of South Vernon furnished
onions, Green Mountain and Delaware
potatoes. maneels. siiagc, corn, celery
and large string of red flint corn
Bert Ormsby of Westminster West sent
a bushel Of six rowed barley. yellow
eyed beans and pie pumpkins f. L.
| llildrcth of Brattleboro furnished Nc
Intosh apples and ". H. Hescock of
/ West Brattleboro, cranberries. A small
exhibit of tobacco was sent bv John
/ Holmes, Charles Miller and Charles HoI
ton Of Westminster. Flint NJ Bissell
of Marlboro supplied the Christmas
! trees aud W. s Pratt of Brattleboro
spring wheat. Small sheaves of oats
on exhibition were grown by l.. r.
! Andrews Of Wilmington and Henry Gas
! sett of Putney
/ \ full ton Of these materials were
shipped from the county and Dana
/ stafford of Brattleboro assisted Coun
Ity Agent Sweeton III arranging them.
| Three gi.ls have been selected from
Those who did the best work in the
i Brattleboro Canning club this fall to
comprise q Judging team from Vermont.
| They are Evelyn Hamilton. Margaret
| Mckeon and Margaret Dunklee. and
Twill 60 to Springfield next Wednesday.
/ On Thursday they viii Judge the can
ming exhibit and on Friday viii give
! a demonstration of drying fruits and
vegetables. They will use dryer
made by boys in the school shop.
Miss Hamilton will exhibit the same
samples Of her work which were award
| ed the gold medal in the recent county
exhibit Miss Irma Thomas will have
a display of canned and dried products
and Miss Elizabeth Crane has entered
an exhibit of sewing.