Classifications of
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Following is a schedule of classifi
cations and awards for th* variou*
exhibits in the fairs to be held in the
county next Saturday:
Last Towntlup Gene-rat Agncul&ura*
Exhibit
First Prize f 10.80
Sccor.d Prize 6-0?
Third Prize ? 2.50
CONDITIONS: I
Premiums will be awarded accord
ing to the following scale of points:
Field Crops, 35 points; Vegetables, 10
point"'; Fruits, 10 points; Home In
dustrie*. 15 points; Artistic Arrange
ment, 10 points; Educational valna,
20 points.
FARM AND FIELD CROPS:
CORN
Best 10 Eara
First Prize. Blue Ribbon; Second
Prize. Red Ribbon.
I. in) White Varieties:
1. Prolific,
?2. Single Ear.
(b) Yellow.
1. Prolific,
2. Single Ear. ?
II. Best Single Ear:
1. Prolific. .
(a) White.
(b) Yellow.
2. Single Ear Variety:
Ca) White.
fb) Yellow.
III. Stalk :
1 Prolific.
Single Ear.
Be:-'- Baled Sample of Hay and
riety.
Best Hand Tobacco, any variety.
Best Stalk Tobacco, any variety.
Best sAmple Soy Bean Plants.
Best sample Cow Peas, (plants.)
Best bunch of Soy Lima Beans.
Best fnmple of Korean Lespedeza
P'ants.
Best sample of Sericea plant3.
Best sample any other Legume
plants.
Best quart any variety rye.
Best quart any variety Wheat.
Best quart any variety Barley.
Best quart any variety Oats.
Bent quart any variety Soy Beans.
Best quart any variety Cow Peas.
Best bunch Peanuts.
DEPARTMENT B
First Prize. Blue Ribbon; Second
Prize, Red Ribbon.
SWEET POTATOES:
Any of the following standard va
rieties:
(Show 5 to a Plate)
Nancy Hall i ?"
Southern Queen
Porto Rico ' '
Triumph
Any other variety.
IRISH POTATOES:
Any of the following standard va
rieties:
(Shown 5 to a Plate)
Green Mountain '
Red Bliss
White Bliss
Irish Cobbler
Anv other variety.
SQUASH:
(Shown 5 to a Plate)
Anv variety.
TURNIPS:
(Shown 5 to a Plate)
Anv variety.
MISCELLANEOUS:
Best and largest Pumpkin.
Best 1-2 dozen Stock Beets.
GARDEN CROPS:
(Shown 5 to a Plate)
First Prize. Blue Ribbon j- Second
Prize, Red Ribbon.
Be^t plate Blood Beets.
Rhubarb
Best plate Sweet Peppers
Best plate Hot Peppers
Best plate Pimentoes
Best plate Onions, any variety
Best head Loose Leaf Lettuce
Best head Headed Lettuce
Best Egg Plant
Best Collard
Best head Cabbage
Best plate String Beans
"Best bunch Celery
Best head Spinach
Best plate Parsnips ,
Best plate Tomatoes
Best plate Carrots
Best sample Lima Beans
Best plate Okra.
FRUITS:
(Shown 5 to a Plate)
Best plate and variety Pears.
B. ; t plate Grapes.
'APPLES:
??est Collection:
Best plate. Any of the following
standard varieties.
Delicious
Albemarle
Bonum
Stayman
?Grimes "
Ben Davis
Winesap Y
Any other variety.
LADIES' DEPARTMENT:
DEPARTMENT C
? ORNAMENTAL FLOWERS AN?
PLANTS:
First Prize, Blue Ribbon; Second
Prize, Red Ribbon.
Best collection of cut Flowers
Best Blooming Plant
Best Display Potted Plants
Best collection Wild Ferns
Best collection Cultivated Feraa.
Best single Fern
Be. t display Roses.
Geranium
Sultana
Best collection of Petunias
Best display cut Gladiolas
Best potted Coleus
Best collection Begonias
Best potted Begonia
Best collection Geraniums
Best display Dahlias
Best display Zenias
Best display Snapdragons
Most artistic basket of Garden
Flowers. _ !
Most artistic basket of Wild Flow
CFS
DEPARTMENT D
CANNED AND DRIED FRUITS,
VEGETABLES
First. Prize. Blue Ribbon; Second
Prize, Red Ribbon.
Entries in these classes should be j
Exhibits at Fairs !
shown in jars:
Score card for judging the quality
of Canned Fruits and Vegetables.
Points
Appearance, (a) Color, 15;
(b) Clearness, 10 2o
Texture
Flavor 20
Uniformity, (a) ripness, 10;
(b) appropriate, 5; 15
Pack arrangement lo
Container, (a) appropriate
package, 5; (b) neatness, 5;
(c) label, 6 16
Total 100
QUART JARS:
Peaches
Pears
Blackberries or Dewberries
Strawberries
Apple Sauce
String Beans (not fancy picked)
Cherries
Soup Mixture; mixture of Corn and
Tomatoes; or Corn, Tomatoes and.
okr*
Tomatoes
Kraut
Baby Beets
Rhubarb
PINTS:
Corn
Lima Beans
English Peas
Okra 3
Pimento Peppers
Carrots
JAMS AND MARMALADES:
Any of the following products. En
tries in these classes should be shown
n pint jars or quarts, preferably
lints.
Peach
Plum
Apple Marmalade
Blackberry or Dewberry
Strawberry ?
Grape 3
Pear
Raspberry
Any other.
JELLY:
Apple
Dewberry
Grape ' ^
Plum
Blackberry ' 1 "ijV
Crab Apple
Raspberry
Any other.
PRESERVES:
Grape
Peach
Pear
Strawberry
Watermelon Rind / ^
Apple
Cherry
Anv other
DEPARTMENT E
Pantry Supplies
First Prize, Blue Ribbon; Second
.'rize, Red Ribbon.
BREAD:
Loaf Bread
Steamed Boston Brown Bread
Graham Bread or Whole Wheat
Com Meal Muffins or Corn Sticks
Light Rolls
Three Baking Powder Biscuits
Three Soda Biscuits.
CAKE:
Loaf :
Angel Food
Pound Cake
Yellow Sponge
LAYER:
Devil's Food
Carmel
Chocolate
Any other. ^
MISCELLANEOUS:
Best dozen White Eggs
Best dozen Brown Eggs
Best Ham, unwashed
5 to 15 pound Bacon cut straight
across, unwashed
Section Comb Honey
Strained Honey (pint)
Mclases or Sorghum (home made)
Cider Vinegar (home made)
Unfermented Grape Juice
Berry Juice
ARTS AND CRAFTS:
Best Single Basket
Best collection of Baskets
Hand-painted China, 6 pieces
Oil Painting
Water Color
Hand Carving
Best Cartoon
Painted Pottery
CANDY:
Eest display of Candy
PIES:
Best Pie, and variety
DAIRY PRODUCTS:
Pound Butter
Cottage Cheese.
DEPARTMENT F
CLOTHING AND NEEDLE WORK
First Prize, Blue Ribbon; Second
Prize, Red Ribbon.
RUGS:
Hooked ?'?
Any other variety
SPREADS:
Tufted '??:)
Knitted
Crocheted
Applique
Embroidered
Any other variety.
QUILTS:
Best Quilt (new)
Best Quilt (old)
TABLE AND BED LINENS:
Luncheon Set
Luncheon Cloth
Center Piece
Card Table Cover
Vanity Dresser Set
Buffet Set
Fair Tillow Cases
Towel (handmade decorated)
Best Pajamas j
Any other hand work. ?
CLOTHING:
Best House Dress
Best Boy's Suit
Best Child's Dyess
Best Infant's Egress
Best Infant's Pillow
Best Infant's Coal
Best piece of Underwear
Ladies' Handkerchief
Men's Handkerchiefs
Best Apron . i
Best Plain Sewing
VEGETABLES, FRUITS, PICKLES { i
AND RELISHES |l
Ripe Cucumber Pickles
Green Cucumber Pickles i
Green Tomato Pickle J
Dixie Relish or Pepper Hash I
Peach (sweet) ?
Watermelon Ritjd, (sweet) 1
Spiced Grapes
Spiced Pears
Beet
Chow-Chow
Spiced Apples
Onion
Any other
POULTRY:
First Prize, Blue Ribbon, Second
Prize, Red Ribbon.
Only Pure^breds to be exhibited.
Best Pen ? any breed (Pen to con
sist of one male end four females)
Best Cock Bird ? any breed
Best Cockerel ? any breed
Sfst Hen ? any breed
Best Pullet ? any breed
Beat Turkey ? Any breed
Best Duck ? any b^eed
Best Goose ? anj breed
Best Guinea ? any breed
Pheasants ? Ring Neck and others.
The above may be exhibited in
pairs if desired.
LIVESTOCK:
Horses, Mules, Ponies and Colts;
specially requested to be exhibited.
Prist Prize, Blue Ribbon; Second
Prize, Red Ribbon,
CATTLE:
Best Bull ? any breed, under aix
months
Best Bull ? any breed, six to twelve
months
Best Bull ? any breed, twelve to
tv/enty-four months
Best Bull ? any breed, over two
years
Best Dairy Heifer ? any breed,
under twelve months
Best Beef Heifer ? any breed, under
twelve months
Best Dairy Heifer ? any breed,
twelve to twenty-four months
Best Beef Heifer ? any breed,:
twelve to tweny-four
Best Dairy Cow ? any breed, overi
two years
Best Beef Cow ? any breed, over,
two years
Best young herd ? any breed to con
sist of two cows and one bull.
Best Old Herd ? any breed to con
sist of two cows and one bull over
two years.
Beat Steer ? any beef breed, under .
one year
Best Beef Steer ? any breed, over,
one year.
RABBITS; . i
New Zealand, Chinchilla and any
other variety.
Doe and her young.
Senior Buck, Junior Buck.
Senior Doe, Junior Doe.
SWINE:
Prizes ? First Prize, Blue Ribbon
Second Prize, Red Bibbon.
Best Boar ? any breed under six
months
Best Boar ? any breed, six to twelve
months ? |
Best Boar ? any breed over one
year
Best Female ? any breed under six n
months.
Best Female ? any breed six to
twelve months
Best Female ? any breed over one I
year
Best Sow and Litter ? any breed
Best Pen of Pork Hogs.
SHEEP:
Best Ram ? under one year, any
breed
Best Ram ? one to two years old, '
any breed
Best Ram ? two years or over, any ,
breed
Best Ewe ? under one year
Best Ewe ? two years or over, any
breed
Best Ewe lamb.
Best Ram Lamb.
SIMPLE SEFD TREATMENT
PREVENTS GRAIN DISEASE
Most of the destructive diseases of
small grain may be eliminated by
simple seed treatment before the crop
is planted this fall. Many of those
who grow wheat, oats and barley suf
fer heavy losses from smuts, rusts
and other small grain troubles which
take a heavy annual toll.
zDr. S. G. Lehman, plant pathologist
of the North Carolina Experiment
Station, urges that small grain seed
be properly treated to control these
diseases and promises the aid of his
office to any one desiring informa
tion about how the treatments are
made. For instance, he says, wheat
covered smut or bunt as it is some
times called may b' controlled by
treating the seed grain with copper
carbonate dust. Use three ounces of
the- dust to a bushel af the seed grain.
Each grain should have a thin coat
ing of the protective dust and this is
given most effectively by rolling the
two around in a revolving barrel. The
grain should then be planted at the
date which is safe from Hessian Fly
injury.
Wheat loose smut may be controlled
by the hot water treatment and wheat
scab and seedling blight may be con
trolled by blowing out the scabby ker
nels and treating the sound kernels
with the copper carbonate or Cere
san.
Oat smut is best controlled with the
formaldehyde treatment, using one
pint of 40 percent formaldehyde to 40
gallons of water and sprinkling the
grain thoroughly using about four
gallons of the solution to five bush
els of the grain. Ceresan is another
good chemical to use. Barley smuts
may be controlled about the same way
as the others and barley stripe may
be controlled with Ceresan dust used
in the same manner as for the cover
ed smut of other grains, Dr. Lehman
says.
STARTS GUERNSEY HERD
WITH ONE PURE BRED COW
J. J. Tucker and his son, J. S. Tuck
er, of Barnes Creek, Montgomery co
unty, have made an excellent demon
stration of how the owners of small
farms may build up a herd of pure
?rcd cattle by the purchase of otje
leifer.
Back in September 1922, ten yea ru
igo, Mr. Tucker and his son invested
>95 of money won by hard work in a
>ure bred Guernsey heifer purchased
it Mooresville in Iredell county. When |
lie heifer freshened with her first'
:alf, Mr. Tucker disposed of the old
scrub cow which provided the family
milk supply for some ycar3 and deter
nined to keep only pare breds there
ifter. Starting with the one pure bred ,
md calf, they have bred 25 animate, '
>11 bsing descendants of the original
leifer. They have sold ten pure bred
Julls to other farmers in the county j
and nearly all of these animals are '
in service. In addition, the Tuckers 1
sold five females to farmers in other
:ommunities to aid them in 3tarting
pure bred herds of their own. I
Thus, says A. C. Kimrey, dairy ex- ,
tension specialist at State College, hps '
the influence of this one farm be-,
coma felt over the county and more
pure bred cattle are grown there as a
result. i
Mr. Kimrey says the Tuckers get
s young three-year old bull from G.
L. Neel of Salisbury, use the animal
on their berd until he is fuR grown
and then turn him back to Mr. Neel.
In this way inbreeding is prevented
and good blcod is kept in the herd at
little expense.
The Tuckers have sold $1,703 in
cash from tlie herd and still have ten
cows, including the original one. The
ten animals have a cash value nearly
equal to the cash receipts.
FED HOM1# -GROWN CORN
HOGS STILL SHOW PROMISE
Though the mid-west has one of its
best corn crops in history and North
Carolina will have a short crop due
to "dry -weather, the man who has a
supply of home grown corn to feed to
his hogs may expect the animals to
pay him market price for the grain.
"There is prave doubt that hogs can
pay the price of corn when it is pur
chased," says W. W. Shay, swine ex
tension specialist at State College.
"The price of corn will bs the cam
belt price, plus freight and the pro
fits of handling the grain. This puts
the man who has to buy corn for his
hogs at a disadvantage. However,
there is a shortage of pork and a
shortage of stocker and feeder ship
ments. This shortage may offset the
disadvantages which the North Caro
lina feeder will face thi3 winter."
Mr. Shay finds that pork "held in
storage as of September first, is three
percent less than one year ago on the
same date. It is 14 percent less than
the average for September first dur
ing the past five years, and holdings
of pork were 11 percent less on Sep
tember first than they were one month
earlier or August 1.
At the same time, stocker and feed
Rosman Elementary School News
m *
A STORY OF ABRAHAM
LINCOLN
% When Abraham Lincoln was 9
years old hi? father moved trom Ken
tucky to Arkansas. It was printer
and the roads were in a mess. The
fan'itly moved in an ox wagon. His
mother and the other children rode
in the wagon, while .young Abe and
his father walked beside it. Abra
ham had a little dog called Dart.
Dart would run rabbits in the near
by woods. The cart had gone about
15 miles when they came to a crcek. i
But Dart couldn't make up his mind j
to croB sthe creek. He would stand
on the other side of the bank and
bark. Abe thinking that he would
comc on later went on. The wagon
was nearly out of sight when he
noticed that Dart had not come
across the creek. Abe ran back to
the creek and tried to coax the dog
across but Dart wouldn't move a bit
Abe , getting sorry for Dart, pulled
his shoes off and waded the creek.
When he reached the opposite bank
the dog jumped upon him. He said,
"get down Dart boy." Then young
Lincoln gathered the little funny
animal up in his arms and waded
back across. He put his shoes on, and
with the dog at his heel3 rar. to catch
, up with the ox cart. This is only one of
j Lincolns kind deeds. There are hun
dreds of others.
QUINTON CRANE
I Seventh Grade.
WILD FLOWERS
I like to hunt wild flowers. They
look like they are trying to hide ir.
the weeds. Socn Jack Frost will find
their hiding places and get them.
: Then I will not see any more lovely
flowers until Spring.
BERTIE MAE ORR,
Third grade,
.
er shipments were 41 percent less in
July of this year than a year ago
and for the average of five years
past.
For those who plan to feed hogs,
Mr. Shay suggests that barley be
planted this fall and ground for the
i hogs early next ' spring when the
I home-grown corn supply gets low.
i Barley is about as valuable os corn
for hog feed. In the meantime, he
, pleads with North Carolina growers
not to sell off their brood sows. Next
I season may be favorable to corn pro
I auction and the man with his usual
j number of brood sows will reap the
i benefits, he says.
Want Ad* Are Good StilUoc AaeoU
CATCHING ,i BEE
One day ay chret year old censin
and I were playing in the yard. He
saw a B<;* in a flower sad caught it.
Judging iron; the way he screamed
he wtfl^sver eatch anything in ?
flower again.
D. H. Whitaire,
Fifth grade.
MY KITTENS
I lusve four pet kittens. Two of
them are yellow. One is black. One
is gray. They iike to catch rate Rnd
mice. When I go to feed they run to
me and say, "Mew"! I like to play
> with my kittens. I like to make our
1 dogo bark at them. '. A
HELEN WHITMlSfc,
Third grad# .
TREES
I The trees are very beautiful and
I like to look at them. I like to wabsh
them as the wind blows the leaven
about It sounds like music to me. tn
the Spring the music sounds so hap
py beeiusa the leaves are coming- out.
In the Summer it sounds' as If the
leaves were playing. But in the Win
ter the leaves begin to turn golden
1 and brown and to fall off and die.
, The music then seems so sad because
. the trees are so lonesome since the
leave# have died.
REX GALLOWAY.
THE THISTLE
The thistle is found along roadsides
and in field*. It blooms in August
and September. It has 4 purple bloom.
This is the flower of Scotland.
LOR PETIT, First grade.
THE GOLSENROD
This flower is found along road
sides. It is found in fields, too. It
blooms in August and September. It
i wears a yellow plume: This is a pret
i ty flower.
LOIS RAINES, First grade.
A VISITOR
Dr. Fan-ell is visiting us. He
cleans, pulls, and treats our teeth. He
telfa us how to have good teeth. We
are glad tc have him.
SYVELLA McCALL,
Second grade.
W. O. W. UNVEILING
AT CANTOS
Hemlock Gamp 391 Canton, N. C.
held their regular meeting Friday
night September 23. A good bunch
of choppers was present. The date of
the unveiling was set for Sunday
October 9 at 3 p. m. at Morning Star
cemetery. Henderson ville Degree
team will have charge of the service*.
AH camps have a special invitation
to attend and take part.
Hence the importance of the County and Community
Fairs.
Hats off to the men and boys, women and girls, who
are sponsoring the Rosman Fair and the Sylvan Valley
fair! Their work is of tremendous importance to all the
people of the county in all the years to come. Let's all
attend these fairs and encourage the promoters in every
wav that we can.
Cash Prices We are Now Paying
POTATOES, per bushel
CORN, per bushel . . . .
KENS* per pound
FRYERS, per pound . .
EGGS, per dozen
THE STOEE WITH TEE CHECKERBOARD SIGN