1526 
December 30, 1922 
Fat Stock Show 
(Continued from page 1251) 
the flosses judged, the judges complained 
of eimjestioii and of ring-side suggestions, 
and about all one had to experience for 
hi> day’s visit was a pair of tired legs 
and an aching back. This year one could 
sit in the box or seal, view the whole 
sluov with ease, interest and comfort. It 
was clearly a matter of turning the ling 
over to either the “guests” or to tile live¬ 
stock. and the management wisely choose 
the latter. More people were able to see the 
show than ever before and every one felt 
that no special favors were extended to 
anyone. Some may feel that they have 
not been to the show since the> failed to 
see many of their friends and acquaint¬ 
ance*' ou the same tan bark as previously, 
Two Pet Cats 
The picture shows two Connecticut eats 
owned by Mrs. Elmer Lund of Connecticut. 
They are beauties. There are men and 
women vho hate cats, aud who are lying 
awake nights trying to devise new laws for 
taxing kitty off the earth. <>n the other 
hand, there are thousands of country peo¬ 
ple who regard the cat as the most useful 
of i,ll domesti • animals. The cat-haters 
are mostly city people, so that this issue 
is likely to be drawn between city and 
country, with the odds in favor of the cat. 
but all but the “kickers” agree that the 
innovation was a great comfort and a 
long constructive stride in advance. I To- 
vide a visiting aislo nil the vast side wlivrv 
“guests” can mingle and the new arrange¬ 
ment will be complete. 
Perhaps the most notable achievement 
was the fact that the program was run 
on schedule, During other years the 
“overrun” extended well into 1* I'iday or 
even Saturday morning. This year with 
really more classes to work over. all judg¬ 
ing was finished by three o’clock Friday, 
and at that some of the classes were 
“strung out” to cover the schedule. X" 
doubt it will be possible next year to 
allot more time to cattle and less time 
t,, horses, for the beef division is more 
congested -than any other section. Ac¬ 
tually the* on-lookers were nearer the rep¬ 
resentative animals being judged than 
ever before, though some of the press 
men complained of not being able to han¬ 
dle the tops or converse with the judge. 
< trie’s eye ought to he guide enough, os- 
poeiallv since one always has the privi¬ 
lege of going to the stalls and conversing 
with the group of herdsmen who always 
congregate around the wearer of the blue 
and red. . . . 
Again the herdsmen were not exhausted 
in making the show. They had ample tiine 
to “dress” the entries for the next day s 
show. Visitors could see both horses and 
cattle judged on the same day. and nearly 
every one was more than pleased with 
the new arrangement. Let us hope that 
no backward steps are taken next year. 
Iowa State College won the students 
judging contest with its team led by »L A. 
ilofboiL who was rated high man. I nr- 
dm* was second and Kansas, third. Each 
team was required to place selected 
groups of horses, cattle, sheep and swine, 
ii<id briefly to state their reasons for 
placing. Twenty colleges competed ba¬ 
the various trophjR. M ith the Junior.-, 
the representatives from \ irginiu ranked 
first among the IS teams. All during the 
show the “Boys and Girls” were con¬ 
spicuous, and every effort was concen¬ 
trated toward making this event stamp a 
lasting impression on their fertile minds. 
A most unusual show was staged for 
ovory evening, whiU* the junior show n< i<l 
Saturday morning was duly appreciated 
|>v I lie youngsters. Regular horse show 
entries* bur bed saddle horses and hum- 
ers featured the show. The six-horse 
teams in themselves were attractive 
enough to justify attending the perform- 
ance. Swift & Co. and Chestnut 1 amis 
of Washington, D. exhibited Perch 
crons, while Wilson & Co. and the -Na¬ 
tional Biscuit Co. featured the Clydes¬ 
dales. The Biscuit Co. won on single 
gelding, pair, four and six-horse team. 
The "stunt drivers” were sensational, 
ilusliv and fast, ami go to show what the 
.di rect type of draft horse can do when 
lie is titled aud schooled. 
It is out of the question to detail the 
awards in the various classes. Anyway 
Mich items would menu very little to tin* 
bulk of our renders. The cattle show lias 
never been surpassed. The Shorthorn* 
excelled in numbers, followed by the 
Hereford and Angus. Milking Shorthorns 
made bv all odds their very best slewing. 
The latter classes were judged by .T. IT. 
Strickland, the foreign judge, and both 
championships went to Western exhilnt- 
cltamplan ships went to the M est. f. c. m. 
lht RURU NEW-YORKER 
From New York to West Virginia 
Getting Ready for a Trip. —The new 
car, a long, low, rakish craft, as it would 
probably have been described in the days 
when pirates confined their operations to 
the high seas, there then being no auto¬ 
mobile industry iu which they might en¬ 
gage. had been In commission nearly a 
year, and we laid never taken' a real 
tour in it. so when some friends at the 
University of West Virginia thought¬ 
lessly suggested that we come down and 
make them a visit, we astounded them 
by promptly endorsing tlu* idea aud en¬ 
gaging a neighbor to feed the hens aud 
see that Sir Mutt got his daily supply of 
milk. Since listening to a recent talk 
by Dr. McCollum on food values, we 
quite insist that this latter member of 
the household shall balance his catnip 
salad and high protein rat steaks with 
some dairy product and, moreover, as 
upholders of the Dairymen's League, yet 
with an uiiiiccminlable aversion to milk, 
some one in the family has goi to do his 
bit. We were told that the trip from 
Morgantown, W. Va.. to Ithaca, X. V., 
the latter city being an hour’s drive from 
our home, was not Infrequently made in 
two days. Be that, as it may. we were 
going, if at all. to see rite country, not 
simply a road ahead of us, aud we had 
in mind. too. the rather grim sense of 
humor displayed by the city authorities 
into Townnda, Pa. Then we struck 
Pennsylvania dirt roads. State kept, and 
as high in the center as they were nar¬ 
row. Tin's commonweal!h, and the Sta'e 
of Pennsylvania likes to speak of itself 
as the commonwealth, evidently believes 
iu keeping the chief country roads under 
its iivvo care and maintaining them iu ser¬ 
viceable condition by the frequent use of 
the King road drag, or road hone. White¬ 
washed telephone poles, posts and rocks 
mark these Slate-kept highways, and 
farm teams tinning stretches of them are 
occasionally passed. We were fortunate 
enough to find them iu as good shaps as 
they probably ever get. dry after rains, 
but’not yet dusty. This was doubly for¬ 
tunate, since the trip across the State 
was one detour afPw another. Follow¬ 
ing a road map for any Jengl h of time 
was out of tin* question : we cun id keep 
to macadam or concrete for but a few 
miles at a time; then we made a detour 
into the hills. Before noon we were 
winding up the beautiful mountain road 
that leads to Eagles Mere. Here, at the 
wooded lake which has defied gravity by 
perching itself upon the hills, was an 
ideal place to eat the first' noonday 
lunch, and shoe box No. 1 gave up its 
contents. It was sufficiently late in the 
season at this mountain resort for the 
air to be rather uncomfortably cool, and 
we were glad to descend to warmer levels. 
In doing this, we wound about for miles 
through narrow and picturesque valleys 
until the west branch of the Susquehun- 
I.'inie drou th of T\ii(i.:ii 
The accompanying picture shows a 
lciidzu plant growing at Vineland. X. ,T. 
Mrs. O. E. Lowery, who scuds the pic¬ 
ture. writes: 
“In a former issue of Tut; R. X.-Y. I 
observed a picture of the kiulzu vino. 
tree, also a brooder house 10x20 ft., on 
the left of picture, and T had to cut 
yards of the vine away or it would have 
covered the ground. It seems to be 
without enemies of any kind. I also find 
I can root the vine from slips.” 
show the shoulder of a hill here, perhaps 
a bit of water somewhere else, and soft 
lights and shadows everywhere. Save for 
the ever-recurring detours, our toad now- 
kept close to the Susquehanna, now a 
broad river, its two branches having 
united at Simbury. Though wide, the 
Susquehanna is apparently .shallow, great, 
rocks lifting themselves aboxe its surface 
here. A novel sight was the mining of 
the river. Men on large scows were 
dredging the river boltom for coal brought 
down from the mines miles above, and 
roadside signs announced "River coal for 
sale.” In the processes ,,f mining, or 
washing, much fine coal is evidently wast¬ 
ed by being carried into the river in the 
great, anthracite regions of the Slate. 
Many miles below, enough of it may he 
recovered to make dredging for it pin fit- 
able. The breaking of the great stream 
which we were following through the 
mountains above Mjllersbmg afforded 
many delightful views along its course, 
and this latter town offered what was 
equally satisfying —a good breakfast. Be¬ 
ginning here, our detouring was nearly 
over, A wide concrete mad, to be con¬ 
verted into a boulevard for the coming 
generation, when the continuous rows of 
maples on either side attain a height and 
spread that will overhung it. led into 
Harrisburg by way of that city's beauti¬ 
ful riverside drive and parkway. Only 
the edge of Pennsylvania's capital city 
was seen, as our mute lay across the 
river aud ou to Gettysburg. 
The BatteefieT.I). —At Gettysburg, 
which we reached before noon, uniformed 
guides offer their services to tourists. For 
$3 tiny will accompany a party over the 
25-mile stretch of the battlefield and 
point out the places of special interest. 
!\Ye preferred, with the aid of a small 
map, to be out own guides, however, and 
to stroll about wherever we liked. Still, 
we owe to one guide who interested him¬ 
self iu us as we were leaving the observa¬ 
tion lower oil Big Round Top. that we did 
not miss seeing the Devil’s Den. not only 
a point where some of the fiercest lighting 
of the battle look place, bill a marvelous 
heap of enormous boulders piled by na¬ 
ture in a most unexpected place. The 
Official Observer couldn't have been 
thirsty, but she immediately decided that 
she must drink from the spring emerging 
from beneath these gigantic rocks. Th ■ 
Cautious Driver, who at limes has vis¬ 
ions of typhoid germs Moating about in 
public water supplies, preferred to wait 
and take chances ou a private bottle of 
pop. The battlefield is half park, half 
farm land, and probably no other is s», 
well marked by the States whose sons 
fell there and by private historic.-)! asso¬ 
ciations. Outside the area set aside as a 
park, many private dooryards and farm 
fields hold monuments and markers that 
show where various regiments and com¬ 
panies held positions. Along tile roads, 
too. are groups of now silent guns that 
show where batteries once belched forth 
death to doggedly advancing men. A 
number of steel observation towers have 
been erected on high points, and from 
them one tuay look for miles in every di¬ 
rection, seeing the battlefield spread out 
like a map before him. si. li. D. 
(To be continued) 
We found that the wonderful vine grow- This may seem like a large story to 
ing on our farm was a kud/.u, so had come of our readers, but after our own 
pictures taken of same. The vine is experience with kudzti we can believe 
three years old, and in Spring was noth- almost anything about the plant. Me 
ing but a dried stem. like a weed, about want accurate reports of its behavior in 
3 ft. long. T tied it to an old peach tree 'the North.’ .lust as in the ease of llubam 
12 ft. high (ou the right of picture), and clover, we want the facts, no matter 
in four mouths it had completely hidden whether they are favorable or not. 
of Schenectady, who have erected a sign 
at a main entrance, to their town read¬ 
ing: "Drive slowly aud See our city— 
drive fast and see our magistrate." Wo 
accordingly procured an automobile guide 
book and planned a route that could 
easily he covered, in three days of day¬ 
light driving, with such stops as we de¬ 
sired to make. Touring in a new car, 
still sound in wind and limb. Would he 
comparatively inexpensive if it were not 
for hotel bills, hut the alternative of 
camping requires time and equipment not 
always at one’s disposal. We decided to 
compromise by slopping at hotels for 
lodging ami breakfast and carrying mir 
other meals. To this end, we pressed into 
service,, as it were, two fat hens that 
should have been laying, but were not. 
In addition to this pressed chicken, sev¬ 
eral 'hoe boxes were filled and so labeled 
that tlie third day’s Slipper should not be 
eaten before the second noon out, thus 
disarranging the schedule. Three days 
in late August may seem a long time to 
keep a peanut butter sandwich fresh, but. 
take it from us, after three days' driving 
over country roads, any sandwich is 
fresh. Right here it may be well to say 
that “we" consisted of the official Speed¬ 
ometer Observer and Speed Critic and 
the Humble Driver. Both occupied the 
front seat of the Dodge louring ear. the 
rear being filled with -hoe boxes, travel¬ 
ing hags of assorted sizes and contents, 
aud more shoe boxes. On the return trip, 
samples of neariv everything produced in 
West Virginia were added, including a 
jug filled with—yes, you guessed it— 
plain water. 
The First Day Oitt. —Leaving our 
own State at Waverly, we headed di¬ 
rectly south over the concrete drive which 
is locally famous as a sceaic highway, 
na was reached at Muncy. Milton. Ia., 
was on the .schedule as the first night's 
stop and for a visit to the new plant of 
the Dairymen’s League there; a plant of 
particular interest, as the writer helped 
to organize the League in that territory 
some years ago. Bill we didn't see this 
plant, for we found that President Slo¬ 
cum of the League was not at home, and 
it seemed best to use the several hours of 
daylight remaining to push on to Sun- 
bury. and so have more time at. Gettys¬ 
burg on the next day. Another detour 
soon took us across the river at Lcwis- 
burg and southward over tin* hills until 
opposite the twin cities of Northumber¬ 
land and Snnbiiry. We now wanted to 
keep on to Selinsgrove, hot the detotir 
jinx stepped out and waved us back 
across the river into Simbury. It still 
lucked an hour of dark, and an under¬ 
taker sitting in his car by the side of the 
road assured us that we should find good 
hotels a few miles below, and it was not 
long before the twinkling street lights of 
the little village of Herndon warned ns 
that, good or had. a hotel must he found. 
We had driven since 8 in the jnoniing. 
and the odometer registered 154 miles. 
There was a strong German flavor to the 
accommodations here, and even the pho¬ 
nograph in the little shop on the street 
was playing a German song, bul the room 
was fairly clean aud the bed reasonably 
com fort able. 
A Visit to Gettysburg. —The spirit 
of adventure gets one out of bed early on 
such a trip, and a drive of 20 miles be¬ 
fore break fast may easily be the pleas¬ 
antest of the day. When swathed m 
the morning mists and half-lighted by a 
still hidden sun. even the dullest land¬ 
scape becomes beautiful, the reluctant 
gray veil being slowly withdrawn, to 
This is a novelty—a whooping cough 
party staged at Mountain \ iow, N. ,T., 
this season. These children were sent out 
to the country for the Summer vacation, 
and they had the whooping cough in a 
group. So Mrs. It. McMahan decided to 
give them a party. They all had cake, 
ice cream and lemonade, but when one 
started to cough there was a sort of sym¬ 
pathetic action, and all started coughing 
together. It must have been a great 
chorus while it lasted; but they all recov¬ 
ered finally, and went back to the city 
fat and happy. 
