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Show H YORKERS TO SEE PRODUCiS (Special Conespondence ) For the first time in its history tho ' metropolis ot America is to have a "land show," and no .event scheduled Tor 1911 will be of greater interest to the Atlantic seaboard or of more importance im-portance to the south than the American Ameri-can Land and Irrigation exposition to be held In New York city November 3 to 12. Seven millions of people living on and near Manhattan Island are to have their first opportunity to witness an exhibit of the products and resources of the 'soil. Incredible as it may seem to the rural dwoller, there are hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of citizens of New York and adjacent territory who know absolutely nothing of the agricultural resources of the states that support them nor of the opportunities for gaining gain-ing a comfortable and Independent livelihood from tbe soli. Here in the port of entry for a million Immigrants yearly, a large percentage of whom aie seeking land, there is and has been no exhibit of the agricultural wealth and possibilities of tho nation to stimulate a stronger tide of labor and of capital toward the undeveloped land. When this fact was brought to the attention of Arthur E. Stllwell, president presi-dent of tho Kansas Citj, Mexico and Orient railway and of the United States and Mexican Trust company, in his office in the Singer tower he at once authorized his Interviewer, Mr. Gilbert McClurg, who had directed the national Irrigation congresses in Colorado and Utah, to organize the American Land and Irrigation exposi tion, to least) MadlBon Square garden and to hold Now York's first land show there In November of the present year. This first New York land exposition exposi-tion is to be thoroughly representative representa-tive of American agriculture as well as the most picturesque and instructive instruc-tive call of the land ever presented In the nation. Exhibitors will display their soil and its products or show maps and relief models of their holdings. hold-ings. Agriculture as it is generally practiced, dry farming and Irrigation methods will be demonstrated. Moving Mov-ing pictures, illustrated lectin es, llt-eraturo, llt-eraturo, growers and agents will demonstrate the possibilities of American Amer-ican soils. In fact, the exposition will perfectly illustrate that from tho land comes all permanent wealth and that life on the land affords the greatest great-est measure of Independence Big Men Encourage Agriculture. President Stllwell has secured for the exposition a thoroughly repje-sntatlve repje-sntatlve advisory and governing board. It is made up of the presidents of twelve of the great railway systems sys-tems of tho country, United States senators and congressmen, thirty governors gov-ernors of the most progressive states in the Union and well known agriculturists, agricul-turists, educators and bankers. These men were quick to appreciate the opportunity offered by the exposition exposi-tion for exploiting America's natural resources and the opportunities to bo found In tilling the soil in this center of millions of men and millions of money. Gilbert McClurg, general manager ot the exposition, with offices in the Singer building, 149 Broadway, New York city, Is now In correspondence with soil ana crop experts ana exhibitors ex-hibitors all over the country. Secretory Secre-tory Wilson of the United States department de-partment of agriculture haB agreed that his department shall send an educational edu-cational exhibit to the oxposltlon, and Canada's agriculture and horticulture will be well represented. New York and New England will show their agricultural products. Exhibits will be made by farmers and orchardlsts, by a majority of the -jtates, by leading railroads, by boardR of trade and by chambers of commerce Valuable Prizes. The prizes to be awarded to exhibitors exhibi-tors at this exposition constitute a galaxy of the handsomest trophies over contested for in tho history of American Ameri-can agriculture and are attVacting the attention of crop experts in every state. For the best ono hundred pounds of wheat grown in the United States and shown at this exposition a price cup valued at $1,000 has been donated'' by James J. Hill of the Great NorOiern railway. For the beat one hundred pounds of hard red spring or winter wheat grown anywhere in tho two Americas and shown at this exposition 51,000 in gold has been donated by Sir Thomas Shaughnesay, president of the Canadian Ca-nadian Pacific. For the best thirty cars of corn grown In the United States a prize cup valued at $1,000 has been donated by tho International Harvester company. com-pany. For the bcs.t short staple cotton giving tho largest yield per aero a prizo cup valued at $1,000 has been donated by Col. Robert M. Thompson ot New York. For tho best sugar beets produced in tho United States Mr. Horace Have-meycr Have-meycr has donated a magnificent cup valued at $1,000. For the best twenty-five boxes ot apples of any vnrlcty or varieties grown uuywhere iu tho world Howard How-ard Elliott, president of the Northern Pacific, has donated ?G00 in gold. For the beat barley grown In tho United States a cub valued at $1,500 has been donated by Col Gustav Pabst of Milwaukee, who will purchase pur-chase at fancy price the entire barley crop trom the farmer winning the prize. For the best hops grown in the United States a cup valued at $1,000 has boon donated by Adolphus Busch of St. Louis. For the best oats grown anywhere In the United States a cup valued at $1,000 has been donated by President A. .7. Earling.of tho Chicago, Mllwau-keo Mllwau-keo and St. Paul railway. For the best potatoes grown anywhere any-where In North America President Stllwell offers a i$l,000 prize cup. Negotiations arc being carried on ( by Manager McClurg for similar handsome hand-some prizes for the best alfalfa, rlco and other products of the field, orr chard and truck garden. It is expected that this will be the largest and best land show In point of attendance ever held in America. No land shbw ever held in the world will have been given In the center of so many millions of people. More than half tho entire population of the nation na-tion Is within a night's or a day's ride of New York city, and to these the exposition ex-position of the productivity and riches of the American soil will make direct appeal. A compelling magnet will be the glvin gaway daily to visitors by popular popu-lar allotment of a farm, orchard, irrigated irri-gated tract or grain land in various parts of the United States. Free gifts of this kind have never been offered of-fered In "New York or the east, and this will prove a great attraction Among the prize allotments are 160 acres of grain land In Montana donated do-nated by President EJlllott of the Northern Pacific railway; ten acres of Irrigated land near Roswell, N M . given by the Western Irrigated Laud nnd Orchard company of New York city, and a fine five acre pecan orchard orch-ard at Tallahassee, Fla,, donated by President Stllwell of the Florida Pecan Pe-can Endowment company. The American Land and Irrigation exposition will be attuned to voice the cry of "Back to the soil the land tho home" It will give illustrated Information In-formation to the home seeker, the farmer, the railroad man, the investor, the student and to town and city dwellers regarding the development and colonization of the beckoning lands of the middle and far west, the Pacific slope and the south. It will put the man on the place; it will show the tillers of wornout land how to rejuvenate their farms or where best to Beek and find richer, virgin boII; it will turn tired city tollers toll-ers to green fields and the song of the thrush: It will point the way for the immigrant and direct "the landless land-less man to the manless land.' oo |