The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-19
Bewildering Display of Edi-
bles Augurs Well for
Coming Winter
ATTRACTIVE SHOW
BY APPLE GROWERS
Boys and Girls Club Exhibit Occupies
One Entire Floor and Is Highly Com
mended by Cheshire County Agricul-
tural Agent

tural Agent.
If the display in the farm products
building is any criterion of the coming
harvest of fruit and vegetables, many |
tables will be supplied with homegrown
products during the fall and early winter
and many cans of delicious edibles will |
be opened in mid winter and early spring
If vegetables take the place of meat
many pounds of the latter will be. saved
for the soldiers and allies, and many
householders will notice the difference in
their market bills if one can Judge from
the number of exhibitors who brought
farm, garden and orchard displays
The entire north side of the main floor
was solid mass, from table to ceiling,
of squashes, pumpkins, cabbages, pota-
toes, beets, corn and other farm produce.
which was brought for exhibition pur-
poses only from the BrattleborO Retreat
This display of vegetables attracted
much attention and favorable comment,
which shows the interest and painstaking
efforts of Arthur +. Cook, the Retreat
gardener.
A large portion of the bench in the
center of the building was occupied by
handsome apple exhibits, among the
| largest displays being those from f. l..
| Hildreth's Upsomore orchards on Ames
hill with 33 varieties attractively ar
ranged on plates and packed in boxes.
f. b. Barrows's class and single plate dis
play of 81 varieties Boyd Bros of Gull
ford with 20 varieties, II. |. Miller of
West Brattleboro with IL varieties, and
good displays from O. w. Amidon of
lGrove Dwight Miller of Dummerston
&C. L. Stoddard Of Westmoreland. ~ H.,
J. G. Stafford and Dana II. Stafford of
Brattleboro, A. L. Fish of Colrain. Mass,
the Rice Farm of Brattleboro and smaller
exhibitors
One of the largest exhibits of potatoes
was made by f. H. Miller. manager Of
the Deer Park farm in Halifax, who
also had a good display of other vege-
tables in the southeast corner A large
number of vegetables also were shown
by the Bradley estate and Frederick Hol-
brooks Naulahka farm, where a unit of
, farmerettes has been busily engaged
during the summer season. Both these
, exhibits were on the center bench Frank
, w. Pier S. L. Goodell. A. b. Clapp OF
i Brattlcboro. c. L. Richardson of South
+, Vernon, and smaller exhibitors contrib
e uted products which completed one of Tho
. finest displays ever seen at Valley fair
/ Practically all of the upper floor was
o devoted to the exhibit of Boys and Girls
o club work and many favorable comments
were heard on all sides of the accom-
: lplishments of the young people TIL,
!. display included all kinds of garden
truck, canned fruits and vegetables cook
ing, sewing crocheting, knitting, EN-
=, broidery, collections of pressed flower
and ferns, collections of native wood
: and their leaves compositions. and il
I fact entries in about every line of wof,
! Although entries were open to boys am
e girls in Cheshire county. " ID, an
n Franklin county, Mass, nearly all tn
n exhibits were from the children in Wind
ham county. and the county agent fror
r Cheshire county stated that he had see
N many county exhibits but without ex
ception the exhibit of the boys and girl
If at the fair here was the best he ever ha
lc seen. Many of the exhibitors receive
te awards, which will be paid in thrift
ID stamps.
s. Attractive floral displays were made b
ns c. S. Hopkins and Carroll n. Bond tn
10 latter having a set piece representa-
,s the United States flag, which attracte
10 much attention.
i +. Coombs & Sons of Guilford an
j. Brattleboro had a large display of hone
:, both in the comb and bottled, bees an
- honey makers supplies, in one corner ,
the upper hall.