Milford chronicle., 1920-09-17
THE FAIR A SUCCESS.

DN lHt present dSSOCldtlOi- 1 ut at
tendance on Thursday. approximating
$4,000. Enthusiastically indicates the peo-
pie of Delaware are quite ready with
their individual patronage TO cooper
ate in a yearly exposition of the pro-
ducts of our farms and gardens, OF
our cattle, horses, hogs, poultry, dogs
and indeed. all that pertains to far
ming.
1t must be conceded at the outset
of any review of the fair. that the
lessons or the illustrations of the ad-
vancement in farming, in the increas-
ing adaptation of machinery to take
the place of manual labor and in
showing the possibilities of agricul-
ture in Delaware, the fair has been
supremely useful and each succeeding
one may be made more helpful in ac-
quainting the agriculturists with the
means by which two blades of grass
may be made to grow where one
grew before"
An outstanding fact, easily deduc-
ible from the exhibits was the help
full influence of Delaware College and
its modern scientific methods of far
ming and stock raising. Indeed, too.
the stock exhibits, especially 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
bulls to be found in the whole coun-
try. With the breeding on those
farms brought up to its present high
standard the demonstration to the
farmer is invaluable. and this in
huence is apparent in almost all the
dairy herds to be seen in the pas
lures of this section.
One recalls that one of the early
attempts here to exhibit the products
of Delaware farms. several years ago,
brought out scarcely more than doz-
en- cOws-blue-bred of the State POg-
is strain, a species of the Alderney
Islands cattle Almost all the others
were of the graded or common type. |
The fair stalls this year contained
some of the finest and most produc- |
tive cows in the country, and they |
were shown in such surroundings as
insure health and cleanliness 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 Winterthur Holstein-Frieisan
dairy in a graphic exhibit of bottles
that represented sixty quarts of
milk. To further explain this yield
it may be said that this same cows
record is 1,209 pounds of 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 we'll
bred and well-kept cows, and illus
trates the fact that the farmer can
not afford to keep a dairy of common {
animals, whose feed bill and cost for j
care would be relatively as much as ]
for the highbreds, are included in the !
herd.
One COW was shown which netted {
the owner $500 last year, and while I
these are exceptional cases, they are q
not so far above the average earn J
ing as to make the illustrations i'm S
practicable as a guide for other ad- [
vanced farmers. The Winterthur /
dairy herd consists of $50 cows. bulls \
and young stock; 200 are cows in /
profit, yielding 2500 quarts of milk t
daily, which is sold to consumers at
25 cents a quart While farming and I
dairying on such a scale is not with l
in the reach of the average farmer, J
the examples of up-to-the-moment '
dairying are interesting in the lesson b
they teach of the possibilities at hand. f
In quoting the Winterthur dairy it 2
must not be understood that there g
were not other exhibits quite as good; n
for there were as fine a lot of other S
high-bred Holsteins, Guenseys and
Herefords as could be assembled tin i
any community. il
Perhaps another feature of the fair a
was the showing of hogs, illustrating S
that the porker has come into his y
own: his friends claim he is the most a
profitable of all stock that can be t
grown and fattened on the farm-a
fact Delaware College emphasizes in c
directly. In this department was c
boar that weighed 800 pounds or
more at two years old and represent
ed a value of $4,000. He was of the a
BERKSHIRE breed, while another, Po- Q
land China. cousin in species, weigh i
ed $50 and was regarded with the I
highest favor by the judges. The fair /
showed that the old favOrite breed, 7
the Chester County White that had its
origin on the Benjamin Hickman t
farm. near West Chester, Pa, is go I
ing into the discard. He is analysed +
by the modern pork raiser as being I
"a lard hog" while the Poland China e
and the Berkshire species produce
larger hams and shoulders, and the I
Tainworth stock, long and lean, are \
preferred when bacon is the first con-
5ideration.
Exhibits made by several oranges p
were interesting and illustrated per-
naps more clearly Jnan the genera! . .
public has been shown before that l.
he organization of the farmers for
he advancement of their work and L
lor their communal welfare Is accom-
Dlishing much. The exhibits included =
almost all kinds of products of the !
farm. the dairy, the hennery, the or G
,hard and the kitchen, and they were u
grouped, forming an at a
tractive display. Some rural modeler u
Of Harmony Grange had articulated a y
man and woman out of the ripening S
autumn crops with clever skill and ?
interested all the fair visitors in a I
way that many will recall as prob 2
able part of the grange exhibit in the L
farm section. The man was fashion Il
ed out of pumpkins and squashes e
with lower legs of corn set in feet OF !
rutabagas and clad in the green of I
tobacco leaves.
The exhibition of show horses was
worthy of a setting IN Madison =
Square Garden, New York City. They !
almost all wore the colOrs of three I
or four local stables almost all OF !
the same family.
The value of the demonstrations OF
the splendid showing Of farm imple- !
ments was apparent, for it was inter-