The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-08-17
COMPLETE FAIR EXHIBIT
Planned by United States Department
of Agriculture.

1OImdtlOll tHes Seeh, 1Gli SoeiS 'iii'
year are sure to find many features
of interest in TIC exhibit of the Unit
ed States Department Of Agriculture
at the South Carolina State Fair
Columbia, S. c.
There is something there for every
body, young and old, and no pains
have been spared by the various bu-
reaus Of the department, who are do
ing big things of vital interest to
the people of the country generally,
to make the government displays as
complete and attractive as possible.
The exhibits will cover about 1000
feet of floor space and will illustrate
the activities of the department and
the results achieved for the better
ment of American agriculture. A
wide variety of displays will be used.
There will be actual working models
that give a realistic presentation of
the subjects they illustrate. Some of
these are of particularly ingenious
construction. There will be beautiful
ly colored transparencies, charts, maps
and photographs. instruments and
appliances of all kinds used in the
various activities of the department
will be on display to show how work
of everyday value to the people OF
the country is performed.
Among the exhibits of the Bureau
of Agricultural Economics is to be
ore illustrative of the radio news
service by means of which the bu-
reau's market information is dis
seminated throughout the country by
wireless. There will also be grain
grading exhibit and demonstration,
and the work of the bureau in stand
ardizing market baskets and ship
ping containers will be illustrated.
Exhibits showing all phases of the
cotton industry will be on display, in
cluding cotton standards, source of
damage, manufacturing, and ware
houses. There will also be trans
parency case showing the various
grades of livestock animals and
meat cuts.
Among the exhibits of the Bureau
of Animal Industry will be self
feeder for swine, breeds of swine, ar
Oliver house and colony growing house
for poultry, trap nests, method OF
culling the farm flock, methods of
tick eradication, a cow barn and milk
house for small herd, the organiza-
ton and results of a bull association,
method of treating hog cholera, the
damage done by tuberculosis in cat
tie and methods of eradicating the
disease, the standard breeds Of sheep,
methods of shearing, and docking and
castrating lambs.
The Bureau of Plant Industry will
photographically show the diseases
that attack fruits, citrus fruits, ber-
ries and vegetables, in the field, in
transit and in storage, and methods
of controlling same; also. cultural
methods used in producing good seed
corn and forage crops. Type heads
of the leading varieties of oats and
rice will be shown, as we'll as speci-
mems of sugar cane. A cabinet de-
pisting the methods and results of
tree surgery will be shown.
How to waterproof leather and 9TH
er materials for farm use will be
shown by the Bureau of Chemistry.
Of particular interest are two sets
of harness, one in good order that
has beer used for 81 years on farm,
and another that, because of neglect,
is ready to be discarded after a or
5 years of use. The bureau will also
show how it condemns and destroys
foods that are unsuited for use In the
engorcement of the pure food and
drug act. There will also be exhibits
showing country hides and skins, the
skinning of animals, the shnning Of
picting the methods and results Of
amino-acids. The difference in the
resisting qualities of waterproofed
and unwaterproofed canvas will also
be illustrated.
The Bureau of Biological Survey
will display specimens of utility rab-
bits, brown rats, birds of paradise
and goura or crowned pigeons, Amer
ican egrets and snowy herons; also
destructive and beneficial birds and
injurious rodents.
The exhibit of TIE Forest Service
includes a plea for protecting the
forest against fires anc methods OF
fighting fire in the National Forests;
also woodland models showing the
proper care of woodlands with respect
to thinning for better wood produc'
ton, etc. A turpentining exhibit will