Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1921-10-26
PUTNAM EXHIBIT
At STATE FAIR TO
Be SPLENDID ONE

The Florida State Fair to be held
at Jacksonville November 1919 will
have good display of Putnam coun-
ty products if one may Judge the in
terest being manifested in the for
terest being manifested by the farm
ers of the county.
MISS Floressa Sipprell, county
nome demonstration, states that she
has learned from the directors of
the exhibits of the State Fair that
all exhibitors are permitted to COM
pete for the prizes shown through
out the State Fair premium list,
provided the county exhibit has one
display for the county and one for
the grower.
AS an example, under class 2, lot
~, the competition is for ten ears
small cared prolific corn, any va
rlety. Under this lot, if only ten ears
were on display it would be scored
for the county exhibit, and not for
the individual grower. If there were
two lots of ten ears each, and pro-
vided both lots were grown by the
same farmer, one lot would be scored
for the county booth and one for, the
grower.
In this connection Miss Sipprell
calls attention to class 81 for meat
products. Fourteen prizes, for a to-
tai of $50, with several firstos of $40
each, will be awarded to the best eX-
hfblt of home cured hams, best ham
from Florida raised hog, beset exhi-
bit of home cured bacon, single strip
of bacon, best exhibit picked pork,
five pounds lard from Florida pork
and varied exhibit of home cured pro-
ducts of Florida pork. Miss SipprelI
is under the impression that there
will be little competition, but from
what she could learn Putnam need
have no fear if the competition were
wide.
Unles sthe farmers raising hay,
the various grasses, and also pecans
start arrangements Immediately to
get in varieties and supplies for the
exhibit, it does not seem that Put
nam county will be abb eto do as
much in this line as should be done.
Besides the products mentioned,
Miss Sipprell is trying to work up
as good display and as great va
riety as possible of the following:
corn, cane, sorghum, cotton, peanuts,
baled hay, baled straw, grasses, mil
let, rice, all mealsfi oats, legumes,
Irish potatoes, cassava as we'll as
cassava root and starch, tobacco, all
kinds of fruits and apiary products.
The best display of bees, bee pro-
ducts, implements, ect., exhibited by
an individual will be awarded a 500
prize by the Fair association.
The vegetables particularly desir-
ed, although all kinds are wanted,
are all varieties onions, cabbage,
,auliflower, pumpkin, squash, beets,
rutabagas, artichokes, cef-
cry, rhubarb, parsnips, eggplant,
all kinds of beans, peas, okra, pep
oers, kohl rabi, spinach, dasheens.
The products to be exhibited at the
State Fair must be in Palatka at the
Nann-Hodge Seed company, all as
'embled and ready to ship to Jack
before November 5.
Putnam county is well able to make
| very creditable showing and there
will be no occasion for disappoint-
nent if tn efarmels will only send
n the articles desired. Where it is
possible to get sufficient quantities
md variety there will be further
redit coming to the farmer through
he prizes that he will win and all
wards will be promptly distributed.
If interest continues to grow as it