New Britain herald., 1917-09-13

executive. He expressed words of praise as he viewed the exhibits sent in by the various factories and stores. the Boys club and Boy Scout garden products, the Charity department farm exhibit, the New Britain City Garden vegetable and canning exhibits, the police department ar- ray and lastly the exhibit of the New Britain Municipal Farm Committee. Governor Holcomb thought that the potatoes raised on the Municipal farm were excellent and had only words Of praise for the men who stood back lent their aid.
 The tent occupied by the Commit tee on Food Supply, working in CO., operation with the State Council of Defense and the Storrs college ex- tension service, was also visited by the governor He expressed his ap- proval of the various educational pla- cards calling on all loyal Americans to do their bit, to report all cases of sedition or disloyalty and to help raise more food for home and foreign consumption and money for the Red Cross. He likewise took an interest in thS Storrs' college experts canning lecture. The Storrs college husbandry exhibit, where are shown some ex- cellent Percheron prize horses, some prize Holsteins and some fuzzy little sheep and couple of Berkshire hog, were of especial interest due to his excellency's close association With the state college. The various and beau- tiful fruits exhibited in the Pomologi- cal society's tent. the floral display, the honey exhibit and the manufac- turers' midway, where all sorts of farm tools, from big Mogul tractors to complete farmhouse lighting equip ment, are shown was visited and con- siderable time was spent in automo- bile row and in the ladies' work de- partment The New Britain Red Cross booth, in charge of women dressed to resemble the Guardian Angles of the Army Hospitals. was a spot of particular interest to the gov ernor who expressed his unqualified support of this most excellent war service.
 He also visited the quaint represen- tatives from the Enfield Shaker col only, selling their own handiwork, and stopped to talk a moment with the women in charge of the booth to raise money for the care and support of the people made homeless and des- titute in war stricken France and Belgium The exhibits in the cooking department made the governor ap- preciably hungry and the fancy work exhibits also took his fancy.
 The visit to the cattle sheds, where upwards of 800 head of cattle are sheltered, took some time, as the gov ernor insisted on looking at all the stock. An idea of the big undertak- ing that it is to care for all these cattle may be obtained by the fig ures given out by Secretary Leland Gwatkin, who states that it takes five tons of hay alone to feed these creatures each day. The hogs ex- hibited by the governors host, Colonel Jarvis. were also seen. In this ex- hibit is Jumbo, the largest hog in New England. It is a Poland China boar, 27 months old and weighing 634 pounds. Although apparently lazy, the keeper of these ungainly brutes vouched for the fact that they can move pretty lively when the oc- casion arises. He remarked that just before bringing the exhibit to the Berlin fair he went into a ten acre lot to capture Big Ben, 19 months old, 436 pound China boar, when the beast suddenly turned on him and, had it not been for the fact that in his younger days he had been a sprinter of record, he would not have escaped with his life. The chicken exhibit, including water fowl, also caught the governors eye.
 Returning to the judges stand, from whence the horse racing and cattle parade was viewed, Governor Holcomb made a short address. As usual, he took a patriotic subject as his topic and urged upon the audience the necessity of conserving food, of raising greater crops, of supporting the administration in these trouble some times and, in short, to prove themselves worthy of the name Amer ican.
 There was a card of two classes of cattle strength contests this after
 noon, but only one took place, the other having been postponed until to-
 morrow. The cattle show also took place today. All of the prize cattle. as we'll as every one of the 150 odd head of oxen were paraded around the trotting park and past the judges stand in review. As was true of the last two days, the afternoons horse racing was excellent, the two l events being the 2:14 trot for $500 purse and 2:23 pace for a $500 ] purse.
 1 Crowds Are Increasing. l Yesterday afternoon and last eve- l ming the attendance at the fair l showed a substantial increase over l the previous days and nights and this 1 afternoon another increase was noted. l Each afternoon, in addition to the 1 exhibits there is band concert and ! four free vaudeville acts of merit At
 night there is band concert and 1 vaudeville performance from to l 9:15 and then there is an exhibition 1 of fireworks. The midway remains l in full swing until Il D. m.