Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1925-09-25
GRAND VIEW FAIR
GREAT SUCCESS
Large Variety of Prize Win
ing Exhibits Shown
Other Grand View
News

Grand View-The fair, and what
fair it was, is past but the mem-
ory of it remains and is prophetic
Of fairs to follow in coming years.
it was said that the main object Of
the Fair was to make our people
appreciate themselves. Who has seen
better individual exhibits than many
Of those shown? That watermelon
Weighing 461s pounds and several
others only a trihe less in weight
That pumpkin, weighing S5 pounds,
all those hearts Of gold cantal0pes
but more than all the rest, some fif-
teen exhibits of the corn In this val
ley that people said could not raise
corn Your correspondent has seen
the corn at the state fairs in Min
nesota, Kansas, and Idaho, but has
never seen corn that would surpass
that on show here The Judge, Mr..
Spangler OF the State Agricultural
Department agreed TO this statement.
That wonderful display of Frank
Gedneys and that other of Mrs. A.
B. Boltz, only fifteen months from
the raw sage brush, and several
others that ought also to be named
who is going TO dispute the state
ment-it was an eye opener for our
own people.
And now we are talking of several
things. There is more sweetness in
idaho watermellOns than in Yer
mont maple sap. Why not build a
factory for the manufacture Of wa
termellon syrup If such watermellons
can be raised and when the water
mellon season Is over use the factory
or making corn syrup from Grand
View corn. Why not go into the
raising OF sunfiower seeds on a large
scale for poultry food II such sun
flowers SO to "A inches in circum-
ference on stalks fifteen feet high
can be raised here. Yes, why not
raise our own fuel in the stalks II
can raise such vegetables here,
where we thought our one crop was
hay why not have a cannery for
these things. We import canned
sweet potatoes. II Is dollars to
doughnuts that our sweet potatoes
would not be excelled by any raised
in New Jersey,
We were short on our live stock
and poultry exhibits. The white Wy
would be hard TO beat and those HOl-
stein cows shown by Mr.. Gardner
either judged on points or on pro-
duction would pass anywhere. We
will do better next year In this de-
partment Some of us even dream
Of a poultry hatchery that will rival
that of Petaluma or Corvallis. Why
not with our artesian water in abun-
dance at 95 degrees that would be
used In winter to keep the chicken
houses warm. Why not green houses
for winter vegetables with this arr
tesian water to keep the temperature
IT so to so.
The special prizes were awarded
10 Frank Gedney for the great gem
sral Improvement, to Arthur Berney
for the largest degree OF conven-
fences within the house. To Mrs.
A. B. Boltz goes sweepstakes for the
largest variety Of exhibits of farm
and garden products, she especially
sxcelled IN flowers To Mrs. Erken-
beck for the best garden, to Howard
sress for the best corn. The judges
we're Commissioner Kjoesness and
ais assistant A NJ Spangler for the
main hall and live stock Miss Ivah
Holt of the College Of Idaho acted as
udge Of the Women'e Work. We
wish IL were possible to give the
iames of all the first and second
lrize winners but as they used about
III Of the 500 ribbons provided It
would take more space than can be
Flowed.