36 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY [1912-13 



one of the vegetables in question, thereby vanquishing any 

 doubts he may have had. 



Vermont had an interesting exhibit of maple sugar, which 

 attracted much attention from the visitors. A fort and battle- 

 ship moulded from maple sugar, surrounded by ornamental 

 maple-cakes of fancy shapes, and bottles and jars of the maple 

 syrup combined to make a most effective display. 



With the exception of British Columbia, the exhibitors of 

 the West seemed to think that the largest of everything should 

 be shown, without regard to quality; while the exhibits from 

 New England showed a perfect uniformity of size and quality. 

 British Columbia exhibited over one huadred different 

 varieties of potatoes. A cheese weighing over three tons, and 

 which required 62,880 pounds of milk to make, was also ex- 

 hibited, being exnibited by the State of New York. 



Many people do not realize that the East has as many 

 advantages and as good soil as many places in the West. This 

 is due largely to the fact that a great many men have gone 

 West and made their fortunes there, who perhaps, failed here 

 in the East. It is true that Eastern men and money have 

 made the West, but that does not prove that the West is any 

 better than the East. One reason for the prosperity of the 

 West is this: men went out there, say, twenty or thirty years 

 ago, bought land for $15 per acre; after cultivating it and im- 

 proving it by irrigation, etc., they sold it to new-comers for 

 $150, $250, and in places where land was wooded, for $2,000 

 to $3,000 per acre, with fruit trees eight to ten years old. 



On every day of the exposition, tracts of Grain Land, 

 Irrigated Land, Farm s and Orchards were given away to 

 Exposition visitors by popular allotment. This feature un- 

 doubtedly attracted many visitors from the farms and rural 

 communities of New York State, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 

 and other near-by states. It is said that during the first three 

 days, over 213,264 people were present. 



With the exception of a small deficit of $15, the committee 

 staid within their appropriation, thus making the cost of the 

 work of exhibiting the products of New England, $1,015. 



