The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-08-09
States Products
Off on Missionary
Fair Exhibit Tour
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and alfalfa hays, winter rye, Bison
flax. six and four-row barley, speltz
Swedish Select oats. Northwestern
dent corn. which is just beginning to
turn ripe. and several kinds of thresh-
ed grains.
The Ceres grain kernels are small
and probably would not grade better
than No. 3, Mr.. Field said. while the
Marquis wheat is better and would
grade No. 2.
Grains. Grass Vegetables
This exhibit. as in the three former
trips, is the years production and
shows all grains. both in the straw
and seed. Grain in the straw shows
several varieties, barley, oats, flax. rye
All tame grasses are there. as millet.
alfalfa. sweet clover and other varie-
ties. fifteen in number. Grain seed,
including buckwheat, beans, corn
and other varieties. are shown in glass
fish bowls, of which there are Is,
There are Is separate punches Of the
grain. artistically arranged and
tagged with card stating the particu-
lar kind.
The vegetble exhibit is not as COM
plete as it will be later, nevertheless
it shows very fine samples for this
time Of year of beets, carrots, cabbage
tomatoes, potatoes. and kohlrabi or
cabbage-turnip. Placed in glass jars
and labeled, of this years production,
are three varieties of gooseberries,
plums. including Okla plum, compass
cherries, two varieties of sand cher
ries. chokecherries, and cultivated va
rieties of currants.
Industrial Exhibit
The industrial exhibit is just as in
teresting, as the agricultural. It in
cludes block and slab coal, briquettes.
with by-products, all shown in glass
jars: ten varieties of wood dyes made
from coal at burlington. near Minot,
together with IL varieties Of hard
wood panels. beautifully finished,
showing the several dye colors. Sew
eral varieties of hard surface brick
and tiling from the brick plants of
Hebron and Dickinson are shown.
Also two fine specimens of concrete
for silo purposes, manufactured at
New Rockford.
Specimens Of chinaware, including
vases, tea-sets, bowls and jugs from
the university are included. There
are red cedar pieces, including candle
sticks, jewel boxes and pin trays; with
bottles of colored sands. all from
the Bad Land buttes. Several balls
| of Irvine, both manila and sisal, in
| Guiding raw material, are in the dis
play. Each ball is tagged as 10 price
per pound to individual buyer and
those buying wholesale quantities
Pictures in frames showing farm
scenes, grain and stock. Two IAN
vases, showing number OF ION.
solidated schools, miles of highway
and railway. percentage of ~illi'eracy
number Of rural delivery routes, num-
Der of radios on farms and many
other like statements are In the out.
fit. A large banner shows voiurae
and value of grain production, 1929
and like statement as to diversified
products. In this latter statement il
shows the rapid increase in this pro-
duction from 1920 to 1929. The sol
of the state, both surface ami sub
is shown in boxes.
Gains Greater Attention
The straw grain exhibit is placed or
purple sateen cloth which Is tackled
on 80 feet of compass board and GOV.
ers two sides of the tent in whicll the
exhibit is shown. The other side OF
the tent is the industrial exhibit or
Is feet of long boards covered with
cloth. Stretched cross the outside
front of the tent is a banner of equal
length on which is painted in large
letters. agricultural and Industrial
Exhibit from North Dakota--Walk
In"
Each year of this journey into Min
nesota, Iowa and Illinois SHOWS an
increase in number of visitors, $1,000
people having visited the tent during
the eight weeks of the itinerary in
Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois last
year.