The Ocala evening star., 1922-11-29

thick syrup makes every warm-blood-
ed man want to put his feet under
table and call for hot cakes with Mar
ion made cane syrup. Even the bees
in Marion have been busy and dis
play of honey in the comb and Of clear
honey shows that they have little trou-
bic making honey in the land Of
flowers.
The Wartmann Nursery Company
has an artistic booth in this building.
The booth is constructed from orange
crate heads and tangerine crate sides,
all stained in mission finish. In the
booth they have Wanurco tangerine
tree, samples of the Wanurco tango
rine (which you must not handle) and
"a table full of literature describing
this latest member of the citrus fam
ily. Miss Della Livingston presides
over this booth and has a man's-size
job to enforce the "Hands OFF" sign.
Before we leave this room we must
not forget the large exhibit of fresh
vegetables. No mattec what you want
Marion has it From the looks Of this
display one would wonder why there
are such things as canning factories.
Some of the radishes and turnips
look almost like the freak postcards
you have seen of single turnip load
ed on and completely filling a railroad
fat car. The man who got the idea
for that postcard must have seen
Marion county vegetables.
The Citrus Exhibit
AS usual the citrus fruit exhibit
is one of the prettiest sights of the
fair. We may be too far north to
grow oranges, but our orange grow
ers certainly show good taste in pur-
chasing their fruit to display at the
fair. The center tables in the agri-
cultural building fairly groan with
the weight of pyramids of great yell
low grapefruit, golden oranges, bril-
Liant tangerines and kumquats. Lines
and lemons also have their place on
this table. There are oranges of all
brands. Some of the large navels ar,
as large as medium size grapefruit.
Poultry Department
Mr.. F. E. Smith (better known as
Chicken" Smith) has charge of the
poultry department and started tell
irg the reporter all about his feather
ed flock, but it did not take the eye
of an expert to see that one look into
that building would have broken up
colored camp meeting. The size of
scme of those hens and roosters would
make a colored persons eyes get as
big as saucers. Marion county is
making advances in her poultry and
the exhibits this year show the results
/ OF these advances. There are $50
more exhibits on display this year
than last. The poultry building is
crowded with a larger number of ex-
hibits than ever sent to our fair be-
fore. In addition to the usual large
display of Rhode Island Reds, Barred
Plymouth Rocks, games, Campines,
Buff Orpingtons, Leghorns, White
Wyandottes, White Plymouth Rocks,
Minorcas and Black Orpingtons, there
are several varieties of chickens not
before displayed at a Marion County
Fair. Among these are the Rhode
Island Whites, Speckled Sussex, the
Black Leghorns, Blue Andalusians
and Jersey Black Giants. Several
new varieties of bantams are also dis
played, including the Japanese Silkies
Polish and Buff Bantams. Numerous
coops of ducks and geese added their
quacks to the general barnyard effect
while the guineas and turkeys held ur
!. their end Of the band in full strength
All varieties of pigeons are shown
!. and parked among their feathereC
friends were cages of rabbits, hares
and guinea pigs.
Live Stock
If any one department of the fail