The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-06
VALLEY FAIR NEWS
MANY FARM AND
ORCHARD PRODUCTS
Good Showing in Agricultural Hall OF
All Kinds of Vegetables - Excellent
Display in Fruit Show.

Agricultural hall contained good
showing of all kinds of vegetables, and
fruits large sections of the building beng
given over to special displays.
| In the vegetable department on the
| ground floor the left wall section was
given over entirely to the usual Retreat
| display, which is entered solely for eXhl.
! bitiGn purp 90 and the arrangement OF
which required much time. The entire
wall from the front to the rear entrance
was banked with traces of corn in va
riety of colors. Below, a shelf the fun
! length of the hall was laden with
squashes, pumpkins, cabbages, onions,
beets, carrots, turnips, caulitiower, toma-
| toes and other specimens, while the
broad shelf underneath had a similar dis
play.
The opposite side of the building was
divided I'm three sections Of about equal
proportions, c.. l.. Stoddard of Westmore-
| land, \. H.. Dana III. Stafford of Brattle-
| boro, and F. ID. Duncan, manager for
| R. NJ. Bradley, making the exhibits. Mr..
| StOddard's display was composed prlncI-
pally of several varieties Of squashes
onions, potatoes, cucumbcrs. pGrsnips, car
rots, both red and white, lettuce and
| cndive Nine varieties of onions, citrOn
pie pumpkins, cucumbers, cauliflOwer,
carrots. beets, turnips, red and white cab
/ bages made up the attractive display of
! Mr. Stafford. Mr.. Duncan's products
occupied the remaining section on the
| right side and rear end Of the hall, good
| showing being arranged on q shelf above
| the table. 1t included practically every
| thing in the vegetable line-tomatOes,
peppers, potatoes, onions beets, turnips,
carrots. cabbages. parsley and others.
! The shelf down the center fthe building
was occupied by the entries of numerous
/ exhibitors. including a bean exhibit of
! IS quart baskets by F. II. Miller, of Hall
| fax, large potatoes by H. Z. Gassett of
| Putney. a display of a variety of vege
| tables by Z. II. Thomas of West Brattle-
borO, a display by David Denton of Gull
ford which included black popcorn and
! watermelon by way of variety from the
of BrattleborO and F. w. Pier of Brat
/ tleboro, who had - varieties of pole beans
and other beans as we'll as some vege-
tables, display of potatoes by W. f.
! Akley of West BrattlebOro, a vegetable
! exhibit from the kurn Hattin Home for
| Boys at Westminster, and several combin-
alton vegetable displays by small exhibit
ors The Rice farm of BrattleborO showed
a display of 81 plates of potatoes. and
| certified seed potatoes were exhibited by
J. f. Gale of Guilford and O. W. Amidon
of Grove.
Apple growers in this section occupied
the greater proportion of the space on
the right of the entrance to the upper
| floor of the building with handsome dis
plays of fruits. the largest exhibitors be
ing r. L. Hildreth of Upsomore orchards
On Ames hill, and +. b. Barrows, whose
orchard also is on Ames HILL
Mr.. Hildreth's display included II
plates and 10 boxes of apples, three plates
of pears and two of ounces. Mr.. Bar
rowss exhibit of apples was shown on 81
plates. Another handsome display of
fruit was arranged by the Scott farm of
Dummerston. which included 10 plates,
two boxes and two baskets of apples some
pears and ounces. Among the other ex-
hibitOrS were Wilson Graves of East Shell
burne, Mass, seven plates of apples and
some smaller fruits; d. Fl. Stafford of
BrattlebGrO, II varieties of apples: The
Orchards. Bennington, 81 plates of
apples; Oliver Hale of Hinsdale. grapes
pears, ounce and II varieties of apples
G. L. Stoddard of Westmoreand. y. H,
20 plates of apples; J. S. Koshinsky, IL
varieties of apples and some ounces f.
X. Thomas of West Brattleboro, 16
plates of apples, pears, grapes, cranber-
ries, blackberries Otis AmidOn of Grove
ID plates Of apples, ounces; r. |. Miller
OF West BrattlebOrO, 10 plates of apples
VI. a. Thompson of GuilfOrd. Dwight
Miller of Dummerstou. NJ. T.. Chamber
lain of West BrattleborO also had small
displays.
In the fruit department an exhibit of 20
kinds of grapes entered by James a Hor-
ton of Greenfield, Mass. attracted much
attention. Mr. Horton also had IL yarie-
ties of pears and some apples He for
merly was regular exhibitor at the Val
ley fair. but in his advanced years has
done little comparatively with his fruits.
F. COombs & Sons of Guilford had
their usual display of honey in the south
west corner Of the hall and a long section
was given over to a display Of ferns.
potted plants, cut flowers and a set piece
by Carroll \. Bond. Mrs p w. Chase
Of West BrattleborO showed - varieties
Of dahlias. There also were several
small exhibits of home garden flowers.