Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-11
The Fair a Success.

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The Delaware State Fair, which closed
Yesterday. has been the most successful
Of any that has been held by the present
association. The attendance on Thurs
dav. approximating 25 900. unmistakably
indicates the people of Delaware are quite
ready with their individual patronage TO
e,-operate in a yearly exposition of the
products of our farms and gardens, OF our
cattle. horses, hogs, poultry, dogs. and
indeed. all that pertains to farming
II must be conceded, at the outset OF
anv review Of the fair, that the lessons
or the illustrations of the advance
nent in farming. in the increasing adapta-
tion of machinery to take the place OF
manual labor and in showing the possiblli-
ties of agriculture in Delaware, the far
has been supremely useful and each sue
ceedinr one NAV be made more helpful in
acouainting the agriculturists with the
means bv which ''two blades OF grass may
be made TO grow where one grew before.
An outstanding fact, easily deducloie
from the exhibits was the helpful influence
of Delaware College and it's modern
scientific methods of farming and stock
raising. Indeed, too, the stock EXHIBITS, es-
pecially the dairy herds of this section' are
almost unsurpassed. There are six or
eight big farms here that are the homes OF
some Of the finest-bred COWS and buiis 10
be found in the whole country. With the
breeding on those farms brought up to It's
present high standard the demonstration
TO the farmer is invaluable, and this IN
fluence is apparent in almost ali the DAIRY
herds TO be seen IN the pastures OF TINS
section.
One recalls that one of the early at
ternpts here TO exhibit the products oil
Delaware farms. several years ago, brought
out scarcely more than dozen co|s-piue-
bred Of the Stoke Pogis strain, species OF
the Alderney Islands cattle. Almost sill the
Others were of the graded or common type.
The fair stalls this year contained some OF
the finest and most productive COWS IN the
country, and they were shown In such sur
roundings as insure health and cleaph-
ness or the way they should be kept and
treated in order that the best results may
be obtained from them.
Farmers were shown, for example, the
one-day product Of a single COW OF the
Ninterthur Ho,stein-Frieisan dairy IN
ssAphic exhibit os bottles that represented
rxty quarts Of milk To further explain
this yield it may be said that this
sas,- cows record is 1,209 pounds
pi butter or twelve tons of milk
in one year-a milk production twelve
times the weight Of the COW. This output
is shown possible through the weil-bred
and weIl-kept COWS, and illustrates the
fact that the farmer cannot afford to keep
a dairy Of common animals, whose iced
bin and cost for carewould be relatively as
much as for the highbreds, are Included IN
the herd.
One COW was shown which netted the
owner 1920 last year, and while these are
exceptional cases, they are not so lar
above the average earning as to make the
impracticable as guide Tor
other advanced farmers. The Winterthur
dairy herd consists Of $50 cows, bulls and
young stock; 200 are COWS IN proht,
yielding $500 quarts of milk daily, winch
is sold to consumers at IS cents quart
While farming and dairying on such
scale is not within the reach Of the average
farmer, the examples of up-to-the-mo-
ment dairying are interesting in the lesson
they teach Of the possibilities at hand. In
quoting the Winterthur dairy it must not
be understood that there were not other
exhibits quite as good; for there were as
fine a lot of other high-bred Holsteins,
Guernseys and Herefords as could be
assembled in any community.
Perhaps another feature Of the far was
the showing of hogs, illustrating that the
porker has come into his own; his friends
claim he is the most profitable of all stock |
that can be grown and fattened on the |
farm--a fact Delaware College emphasizes
In this department was boar
that weighed 500 pounds or more at two
years old and represented value OF Sl0,- |
300. He was of the Berkshire breed, while |
another, a Poland China, cousin IN spe-
rics. weighed $50 and was regarded with |
the highest favor by the judges. The fair |
showed that the old favorite breed, the |
Chester County White that had its origin |
,n the Benjamin Hickman farm, near
West Chester, Pa, is going into the dis
nard. He is analyzed by the modern pork |
-aiser as being "a lard hog" while the |
Poland China and the Berkshire species |
produce larger hams and shoulders, and |
lhe Tainworth stock, long and lean, are
preferred when bacon is the first eonsidera-
.ion.
Exhibits made by several oranges were /
and illustrated perhaps |
more clearly than the general public has
,een shown before that the organiza-
ion Of the farmers for the advancement
{ Aeu work and for their communal well