The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-10-17
TWO GOOD FAIRS
In JUST A WEEK
Bayside and Riverside Held Forth
Tue day; Fork is Center
of Attraction Wednesday

The people of Pasquotank county have
staged two Community Fairs this week,
the first, known as the Bayside and
Riverside Community Fair, at Riverside
school house on Tuesday, and the second,
termed the Fork Community Fair, at
Fork school house on Wednesday In
point of varied and worthwhile exhi-
bits, the two fairs have eclipsed any
thing of the kind ever before seen In
this part of the State, and they mark
the outward singns of new epoch in
progressivism in the rural life of this
part of North Carolina. The result, of
intelligent and well-directed community
cooperation have brought out in each
instance to a degree which proves con-,
clusively what the people of these two
sections are able to accomplish when
they put their shoulders to the wheel,
and give their unselfish and undivided
efforts to a community undertaking.
Due, perhaps, to the fact that lar
ger territory was represented at the
Fork fair, a much wider variety of pro-
ducts was on display than at the River
side fair, but in point of individual ex-
cellence it is but just to state that the
exhibits at the smaller fair were equal,
in most cases, and superior in some in
stances, to those of the larger. A better
floral display characterized the River
side fair, but for number and variety of
products exhibited, the Fork fair was far
in the lead.
Pure bred hogs, cattle, sheep, mules
and poultry were unknown in Pasquotank
county ten or fifteen years ago, but at
these two yairs they were to be seen in
abundance, and in many different varie-
ties. In local justification of fact al
ready wel-konwn in other sections where
full -blooded stock has long been raised,
farmers whose thoroughbred stock was
on display at these fairs stated without
quibble that the cost of the orignes
breeding animals was more than justi-
fled by the increased value of the ami
mails and their offspring. One man, re-
ferring to his hogs, cited an instance
in which scrubs and pure-bred hogs of
the same age had been kept in the same
pen, given the same food, and accorded
the same attention, with the result that
the purebred animal had more than
i doubled the ordinary hogs in weight in.
| few months. Thus the value of better
grade hogs was clearly demonstrated
An absolutely bewildering variety of
canned goods greeted the eye of the Wis
| itor at both of the community fairs.
From brined corn to picked beans, there
seemed to be no edible product of farm,
orchard or garden which was not dis
played in the canned, dried or preserved
state, ready to be served in brief time,
i long after the season for the product
had passed. Greater proficiency in can
ming marks the emancipation of the farm
j household from the old time winter diet
of salt pork, cornbread and hominy, which
! for many years was characteristic of a
large majority of farm homes in this
section.
7 The principal value of these community
5 fairs lies, not in the displays themselves
: but in the result which the improved
l methods displayed will have upon the ru.
raj life of these communities. The in
: centive to increased effort toward i'm.
provement in all departments of rura
life which such exhibits afford is NOR.
than worth the work expended upon the
various exhibits