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FRUITS, VT-,UiTABIES, FLOWERS AND 00191	PARTI	CUT.ARLY CASSAVA AT BILOXI
THIRD EXHIBITION
November 11-12, 190U
Daily Picayune - Thursday, November 10, 1901* - p 16 col 2
BILOXI COMMERCIAL CLUB'S THIRD EXHIBITION OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Biloxi, Miss., Nov. 9, 190^ --
The Biloxi Commercial Club's thircL.exhibition of fruits and
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vegetables vill take place at the Firemen's Hall Nov. 11 and 12.
The Exhibition Committee has decided to give prizes for the best displays of chrysanthemums and roses of different varieties.
It will not give prizes for the Poultry exhibits, as had been planned. The reason for the change in programme was their inability to get competent poultry judges for the occason.
One of the principal features of the exhibition will be a great number of variations of cassava which were grown by Prof. C. M. Tracey of the U. S. Department of Agriculture on his farm near Biloxi.
This display of cassava will be the most complete ever made in the state. The cultivation of this new crop is sure to be the solution of the question so often asked in the long-leaf pine country along the coast -- "What vill be done with the land when the timber is cut off ?"
The climate and soil of this section, according to the Government experts, is perfectly adapted to the profitable cultivation of numerous varieties of the cassava plant.