Brenham Daily Press. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 103, Ed. 1 Monday, September 1, 1913 Page: 6 of 25
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WASHINGTON COUNTY'S BIG 1913 FAIR
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CULINARY DEPARTMENT
Section 10
Bread and Cake Division
Mrs. E. P. Anderson, Directress
1 Beat loaf bread, white $ -76
2 Best loaf bread, rye '5
8 Best white loaf cake, iced • • 1 • W
4 Beet yellow loaf cake, iced 1-50
5 Beat layer cocoanut cake 1-50
Preserves, Jama and Jelliea
Mrs. A. M. Krug, Directress
•6 Best jar peach preserve! I -75
7 Beet jar fig preserves 76
8 Best jar plum preserves 75
9 Beat jar pear preserves 75
19 Best jar preserved citron 75
31 Best jar preserved tomatoes 75
19 Best jar preserved blackberries 75
19 Best jar preserved dewberries 75
M Best jar preserved grapes-; 75
15 Best jar preserved strawberries 75
"18 Best individual display preserves 2.50
17 Best jar grape jelly 75
18 Best Jar plum jelly 75
19 Best jar blackberry jelly 75
20 Best jar blackberry jam 75
21 Best jar dewberry jam. 75
22 Beet jar brandy peaches 75
23 Best jar sweet pickled peaches 75
24 Best display of jelly and jam 2.50
Canned Fruits and Vegetables
Mrs. A. A. Hacker, Directresss
25 Best jar corn $ .75
26 llest jar tomatoes 75
27 Rest jar beans 75
28 Best jar beets 75
2ft Best jar table peaches 75
30 Bets jar pie peaches 75
Best jar pears 75
P" Best jar chow chow 76
83 Beet jar catsup 75
84 Beat jar cucumber pickles 75
95 Best jar kraut 75
Syrups
Andrew Kammerer, Director
ft Best jar sorghum syrup 75
'37 Best jar ribbon cane svrup...., 75
CROP EXHIBIT
8"? Bokt. individual crop exhibit grown and
exhibited by one person 10.08
99 Best exhibit from any one school dsitrict (out-
aide Brenham Public Schools) number and quali-
fy of exhibita considered, library 50.00
LAQIES TEXTILE DEPARTMENT
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Miaa Lillian Schuerenberg, Directress
Knitting and Crochet
1 Beet specimen of knitting $1.00
' 2 Beet specimen of crochet ✓. 1.00
S Beet display of both 2.00
Embroidery
-4 Beat specimen, eyelet embroidery 1.60
5 Beat specimen French embroidery 1.50
® Beat specimen colored embroidery 1.60
7 Baet display, this class 2.60
Plain Sewing
# Baet quilt top $2.00 $1.00
9 Beat apron* 2.00 1.00
20 Beat calico dress 2.00 1.00
11 Beat infant's outfit, 8 pieces 2.00 1.00
tt Beat 8 buttonholes 2.00 1.00
12 Beet display, this class 4.00 2.00
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FINE ARTS
Section 12
Mrs. R. P. Thompson, Directress •
14 Painting in oil, original $1.60 $1.00
15 Painting in oil, copy 1.60 1.00
18 Panting in water colors, original 1.50 1.00
17 Painting in water color, copy 1.50 1.00
18 Pointing in paBtel, original 1.50 1.00
19 Painting in pastel, copy 1.50 1.00
20 Painting on China 1.50 1.00
21 Drawing 1.00 .75
22 Best collection 2.50 1.50
Lace Work
23 Best specimen point lace $1.50 $1.00
24 Beet specimen Battenberg lace 1.50 1.00
25 Best lace worit display 2.50 1.50
COTTON DIVISION
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Fred L. Amsler, Director
1 Beat 8 stalks of cotton $1.00 $ .76
number and sise of bolls and per cent of 6 lock
bolls, per stalk considered, per cent also considered
2 Beat bale 10.00 6.00
Package 10 per cent; sample 40 per cent; per cent of lint 50 per
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exhibitor mutt produce ginner*s certificate sworn to before
it officer, giving number pounds cotton ginned into bale
weight of bale upon leaving gin.
in case the gunner is a competitor, two other disinterested parties
teatify to gin receipt as prescribed above.
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TRUCK DIVISION
Section 14
A. A. Hacker, Director
peck Irish potatoes $ .85
pock sweet potatoes 25
blaclwyed peas, dry 85
Jar cow peaa, dry 85
Jar crowder peas, dry ,85
Jar cream peas, dry .25
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Best string garlic, dry 25
Best peck onions 25
Best cassava 10 tubers 25
Best pumpkin, one 25
Best stock beets, 10 roots 50
Best Cushaw, one 50
Best Watermelon, one 50
Best peck artichokes 50
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MISCELLANEOUS
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Section 15
Almot Schlenker
Postage Stamp Collection $2.00
Coin collection 2.00
Insects mounted (collection) 2.00
Texas Wild Flower collection 2.00
War relics 2.00
Collection of curios 2.00
Washington County Minerals 2.00
Washington County hardwood 2.00
Old musical instruments 2.00
Family and household relics 2.00
Collection of precious Btones 2.00
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SPECIAL
Open
1 Best
2 Best
3 Best
4 Best
5 Best
6 Best
7 Best
8 Best
9 Best
10 Best
11 Best
12 Best
13 Beat
14 Best
$2
Section 16
W. W. Campbell, Director
to members of the Boys' and Girls' Industrial
acre of corn
10 ears corn
single ear corn
male pig under 1 year.,
female pig under 1 year.
Clubs
60 ?1.00
pen, 4 hens 1 rooster,
pen, 2 hens 1 rooster,
pen single chicken...
buttonhole
apron
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JUDGING CONTEST
Section 17
On the 2nd day of the fair at 1 p. m. there will be a judging con-
test of the following:
1 Corn 10 ears: Under rules of Texas Corn Growers Assn.
2 Poultry: Under rules of Poultry Raisers' Assn.
3 Light horses heavy harness horses, heavy harness mules dairy
cows, beef cows, hogs. Rules and score cards used by animal hus-
bandry department, A. AM. College of Texas.
The First Prize in each of the above contests wUl be $5.00
The Second Prize in each of the above contests will be 2.50
The Third Prize in each of the above contests will be 1.00
WASHINGTON COUNTY TEXAS
Washington County, Texas, has a population of 61,680, census of
1910, and an area of 668 square miles, and is one of the oldest
counties in the state, having been the birthplace of Texas Indepen-
dence, old Washigton on the Brazos having been the ontfnal ^P1*
tal. The County is classed as one of the coast counties being in
the fourth tier of counties from the coast, over 100 miks north-
Here the gulf breeze cools the atmosphere making the summer
nights delightful, yet far enough away for the country to be rolling
sufficiently for splendid drainage, and vegetation not to suffer from
the soggy dampness of the low lands near the gulf.
The soil consists of nearly every variety known to Texas. There
is a sandy loam, and black mesquite lands, hogwaller, and black
waxey, elay and post oak lands, and consequently is an ideal county
for diversified farming.
The Brazos -river bounds it on the north and east, Fayette and Lee
counties west, and Austin on the south. The Brazos vlaley fur-
nishes the finest farming lands in the world, being as rich as the
famed Valley of the Nile, and while there have been overflows that
retard the success of the Brazos bottom farmer, this is fast being
obviated with the construction of levees. , ,
One could scarcely enumerat the great variey of products that
have been and can be produced on the varied soils of Washington
County. It has been distinctly a cotton and com country, but that
southern pest, the boll weevil becoming a menace to cotten, our
farmers have already learned the lesson of diversification, and are
raising corn, hay, oats, alfalfa; millet; ribbon can; sorghum; sweet
potatoes; cabbage, onions, lettuce, be°ts and in fact all kinds of
vegetables, for which the soil and climate is especially adapted.
Fruits of every variety are grown here, and berries do well, black-
berries, strawberries, dewberries, melons of all kinds, pumpkins;
squashes; etc.
Throughout the County there are running streams and good water
can be secured in wells in all parts of the County. Along the
streams that water the Counlj can be found some splendid hard wood
timbers, chief of which is the pecan, which though growing wild,
produces delicious nuts that find a ready sale in the markets of the
world at remunerative prices, and many of them are marketed here
every year. A pecan orchard would be a paying proposition, but
so many are to be found wild that no one has taken the trouble to
do more towards it than to leave the best looking trees in con-
venient places, when these valleys were brought into cultivation.
Many of our successful truck growers are annually marketing
from $300 to $400 worth of vegetables per acre from their truck
farm, raising snap beans, onions, Irish potatoes, radishes and a
great variety of other vegetables that art suited to this section,
which is destined to become one of the greatest truck growing sec-
tions in the United States.
Lands here are not only productive, but cheap, when yon take into
consideration that the seasons are so long and the land so fertile
that two crops can be and have bean successfully raited here anr<
have never been advertised or boomed previously, consequently the
values are not inflated, but are what they have been selling for to
residents.
It is not our purpose to furnish a price list, though lands sell all
the way from $15 to $76 per acre, but to set forth some of the facts
about our County together with a cordial invitation to the home
seeker to come here whree the condition# are favorable for the up-
building of prosperous happy homes, in a delightful climate,
from the regions of the arctic cold, or equatorial heat, here there
are no malarial districts, where the gulf breeze tempers the heat
until it is much milder here than in more northern latitudes in the
summer, no sunstrokes occuring in Texas.
This section has about 85 par cent of sunshiny days, an important
element In the growing of crops, and the sun shines every day in
some parte of Texas.
This section is much nearer the great centers of the world's civ-
ilisation and commerce than much of the northwestern part of the
United States.
DAIRYING AND H06 RAISING
Brenham has a well established creamery, that furnishes a market
for a large quantity of milk, and this industry in connection with
hog raising could be made very profltbale.
In the first place stock run out all winter and the cost of shelter
is eliminated for both cows and hogs, and there are various winter
crops that would keep them all winter.
Fort Worth, Texas, has a large packery that furnishes a ready
market for all the hogs that can be raised.
Among the things that casi be raised for keeping hogs and cows the
year round are corn, sorghum, pumpkins, field peas, ground peas or
goober peas, rape, beets, artichokes, turnips and sweet potatoes. The
skimmed milk from the dairy product* would help towards feeding
the hogs, so that it wHl be seen that these two industries form a
splendid combination.
Turkeys, chickens and eggs constitute a triumvirate that forms no
inconsiderable part of Washington County products, as car loads of
them are annually marketed here, everything being favorable to the
success of poultry raising at a very small expense. Guineas and
pigeons might be added to these, as there is a good demand for both.
IRISH POTATOES IN WASHINGTON COUNTY
The growing of Irish potatoes in Washington County has, during
the past few years become an important agricultural industry. I he
soil and climate combine to produce a tuber of high quality. This high
quality is much sought after in the northern and eastern markets, and
during the past several years many hundred carloads have been ship-
ped, nearly all of which have been sold on the track to spot cash
buyers for remunerative prices.
The excellence of early Triumph potatoes grown in this section has
caused an active demand for this product, and Washington County
potatoes bring a higher price in the northern markets tha potatoes
from any other section of the state during the early shipping season.
Here are thousands of acres of sandy and sandy loam lands espec-
ially adapted to the growing of early potatoes. The warm nature of
the soil maturing the tubers earlier than points much further south
that bring the fancy prices, a very important item in potato grow-
ing as it is the early "spuds" that biing the fancy prices.
The potato shipping season usually opens about the middle of
April, at which time the npt price is from $2.00 to $3.00 per bushel
and up to the 5th of May the price never falls below $1.00 to $1.25
net, and at that time the bulk of the earlier plantings are harvested.
A variety of crops may be planted immediately after digging the
potatoes, such as watermelons, sweet potatoes, field peas and corn,
all of which make a good yield, and mature in the early fall. The
writer has on several occasions harvested as much as fifty bushels of
corn per acre on land that had yielded a good crop of potatoes in the
early spring.
Intensive farming and gardening find here the most congenial
climate to be found anywhere on the North American continent, and
may be practiced with the .greatest success owing to the regularity of
the seasons and freedom from storms of all kinds. (No cyclone
cellars needed.) We have the soil, the seasons, the sunshine; as for
the rest it is up to the man, being merely a question of perseverance
and push, and a willingness to keep out of the rut.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON EXHIBITS
B. G. Sayles
A. Wangemann
Branch Watson
O. E. Tefs
W. A. Yates
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F. C. Winkelmann, Chairman
W. W. Campbell
A. W. Watson
Sterling Smith
W. L. Booker
COMMITTEE ON GENERAL RESOURCES OF
CITY AND COUNTY
Aug. Brockschmidt, Chairman W. E. Hoting
Fred Amsler H. G. Simmons
O. E. Tefs Leonard Lagle
COMMITTEE ON TRADES DISPLAY
(1) Manufactures
Robert Jahnke, Chairman H. C. Hodde
F. W. Schuerenberg h. C. Miller
Joe Beaumier Albert Felscher
H. F. Kolwen Ernest Seelhorst
A. Giesecke , W. J. Cox
(2) Wholesale ,
A. Wan . Chairman Adolph Becker
Henry i > A. A. Hacker
H. F. Wehmeyer (' Sam Muery, Jr.
(3) Retail Grocers and Dry Goods
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E. C. Buster, Chairman
Wm. Tesch
L. C. Roberts
Louis Koska
Wm. Niebuhr
W. J. Cather
Wm. Seidel, Jr.
Hermann Y. Neu
Alvin Schubert
L. Becker
L. Stepschinski
Alex Simon
Louis Fink
Joe Lowein
C. H. Hooker
H. G. Wittbecker
Wallace Kasprovich
Will Seelhorst
J. H. Simon
Ed. Schmid
H. Schleider
Louis Lehmann
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(4- Furniture, Hardware, Implements and Buggies
^ Will Hermann, Chairman Will Seelhorst
R. H. Schramm Jesse Schramm
W. E. Reichardt R. A. Jahnke
(5) Lumber and Building Materials
T. A. Low, Chairman Frank Wood, Jr.
W. *A. Wood Howard Wood
(6) Drugs, Stationary and Confectionary
Theo. Schirnuuhcr, Chairman L. Landgraf
F. . Spreen Arthur Knolle
Jos. Tristram Jas. Bournias
Robert Young , Nick Bournias
EDUCATION, SCHOOLS, AND GOOD ROADS
Prof. G. F. Ur idntke, ChairmanProf. C. Klaeroe*
W. D. Notley W. W. Campbell
W. R. Ewing C. L. Wilkerson
PUBLICITY AND PRINTING
Henry Mueller, Chairman W. J. Tucker
George Neu Jos. Cathriner, Jr.
WHOLESALE LIQUORS
John Emshoff, Chairman J. S. Williams ..
A. Kline Wm. Suter
Frits Zobel [ John Gurrech
Henry Schultse j Henry Eckhardt
Albert Winkelmann Chas. Krause
HOME DEPARTMENT
(1) Needlework, Plain and Fancy Sewing
Mrs. E. P. Curry, Chairman Mrs. O. A. Seward
Mrs. A. A. Hacker Mrs. F. W. Schuerenberg
Miss Lenora Tautenhahn Mrs. A. Knolle
Mrs. H. F. Wehmeyer- Mrs. Annie Walters •
Mrs. W. W. Campbell Miss Aurtlia Russell
Miss Ida Mae Lindemann Miss Dorothy Chisolm
(2) Cakes. Pastry, Preserves and Canned Goods
Mrs. F. L. Amsler, Chairman Mrs. J. M.
Mrs. C. L. WQkins Mrs J. C. Fischer
Mrs. C. W. Winkelmann Mrs. A. Wangemann
Mrs. E. P. Anderson Miss Edna Buck
Miss Hildegarde Wangemann Mrs. W. W. SeaVcy
Mrs. Adolph Becker Miss Sallie Sloan
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Brenham Daily Press. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 103, Ed. 1 Monday, September 1, 1913, newspaper, September 1, 1913; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth232381/m1/6/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.