The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-09-04
GREAT EXHIBITS
OF BEST PRODUCTS
Agricultural and Horticultural De-
partments of Polk County Fair Make
Great Showing-Amazing Varie-
ty of Valuable Crops.

be any exhibits at Polk County's fair
is in the same class as Ananias.
If you don't believe this statement,
go over to the Agricultural and Horti-
cultural Departments on DeQueen
street. There you win find over 300
separate exhibits of products from
garden, field and orchard, and every
one of 'em high class stuff
The showing of what Polk county
soils can produce is an eye-opener,
not only to the homefolks who are
familiar with the big variety, but also
TO the hundreds of strangers who are
carefully inspecting the different ex-
hibits.
Visitors~to these departments are
finding 16-foot stalks Of corn, 50-pound
watermeions, giant potatoes, fine red
checked apples, delicious peaches,
broomcorn, buckwheat and hundred
other specimens from Mother Earth.
The showing in these departments is
HOt ohiJ a ACfClotiOh Al fdiActy VI pEp-
ducts, but is also arranged in fash
ion that appeals to the artistic eye.
One of the striking exhibits is the
picture Of President Wilson, made of
Polk county grains and forming part
of the Acorn community display. 1t
is a clever arrangement and the vari-
Gus colored grains are used with tell
ing effect.
In the Clover Leaf Community Club
booth there is another picture made of
Natures materials that is attracting
attention. A bird in flight, bears a
pennant with the name of the Glover
Leaf Club. Cerinth and Thacker
schools combined in making the ex-
hibit.
The Corinth exhibit is one that
shows the varied products of the COM
munity, and is well worth the careful
study it receives.
Among the grains shown are corn.
speltz, millet, oats, wheat, cpwpeas,
navy beans, buckwheat, barley and
popcorn.
The vegetables include Irish and
sweet potatoes, onions, peppers, beets,
tomatoes, carrots, squash, cucumbers
and canteloupes.
Fruits shown are apples and pears.
1t is in the display of crops from the
field that the Corinth community
makes the big showing. The big
booth shows plants in their entirety,
and one win find there cotton, sor-
ghum, kaffir, pencillaria, Japan clover,
sweet clover, red clover, broom corn,
suniowers, corn, peanuts. soy beans,
milo maize, tobacco, Sudan grass,
cowpeas and velvet beans.
And the Acorn community exhibit
is almost as extensive. The Acorn
folks are featuring sorghum, giant
watermelons and forage crops.
The critics who said "they won't
show anything because they didn't
raise anything" should see the show
ing made by just one man, Claude
Clark of the Dallas Valley. He has
booth devoted to products from
Sunshine Farm, and he shows S8 sep
arate and distinct varieaies of fruits,
vegetables and field crops.
There is one exhibit of beans, all
raised IN Polk county, and there are
more than rs varieties. This is spe-
cial exhibit by J. M. Dashiel of Mena
whose pride and hobby is growing and
collecting the different varieties of
beans. In addition to the varieties
shown, Mr.. Dashiel has a number of
others not ready for exhibition.
Polk county isn't classed as a great
corn country, but there are so ex-
hibits of corn already on display. And
there is some real corn shown, too, in
the ten-ear display--corn that will
score high anywhere.
In looking over the displays in the
big room, one acquainted with agri-
cultural facts, is impressed by the
wide variety of forage crops produced
in Polk county. The showing of
legumes is particularly noticeable.
Look over the exhibits of Polk
1919 fair and one will find ON
display red, sweet and Jap clover,
soy beans, cowpeas, velvet beans, pea
nuts and alfalfa, all good forage crops
and soil builders. Other good hay
crops are Sudan grass, timothy, red
top, millet. Some of the Sudan shown
is 8 feet tall.
In addition to these ahere Is to be
found the non-saccharine sorghum like
kaffir, milo and feterita, the real sor-
ghpm and oats, wheat, rye and corn.
r. P. Gregg shows vegetable curl
osity, cross between Cushaw and a
summer squash.
In the Horticultural Department
there are about 30 varieties Of apples
displayed. Most of these are on
plates and the array is tempting.
G. II. Webster shows some fine box
es Of apples, four varieties, Ben Davis,
Black Bens, Gano and Mammoth Black
Twigs. He also displays Keifer and
CARRIER pears in boxes.
Owing to the lateness OF the season
the showing of peaches and grspes is |
not extensive, but some fine specimens
Of the former are shown, while the
grapes on display are of the wild vari- |
ETY. and so large they can readily be
taken for tame ones.
While sreo ypi--,, pits icogH |
In window is basket of Red |
junes that is particularly TASTY and in |
viting.
The foregoing is all offered as pfoof |
that the first paragraph reference to |
Ananias is justified.