Paris Fair Prize Book

Theme: Fall Festival

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(Home grown in 2024 unless otherwise noted)

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**NEW FOR 2024 - JUNIOR DEPARTMENT HAS MOVED TO THE CURLING BUILDING**

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How to prepare fruits and vegetables for exhibition:

• Choose medium carrots, potatoes, and beets.
• Choose regular shaped specimens.
• Choose specimens as nearly the same shape and size as possible.
• Choose specimens that are free from blemishes of any kind.
• Polish with a dry cloth.
• Choose large onions. Bend the tops over some time before pulling so that the tops will stop growing after pulling, allow the onions to dry in the sun. DO NOT PEEL.
• Potatoes must NOT be washed.
• Pumpkins and squash must have stems on.
• Both green and red tomatoes must have calyx intact.
• Please use sturdy plates to display.
• Please put your age on every tag.
• Children are to enter age level as of June 1st.

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CLASS 500

VEGETABLES & FRUIT

Prizes: 1st: $4.00, 2nd: $3.00, 3rd: $2.50, 4th: $2.00, 5th: $1.50 - Unless otherwise noted

1. Carrots, 3 roots, any variety (1" top left on).

2. 3 red potatoes.

3. 3 white potatoes.

4. 3 onions, any variety.

5. 3 heads of garlic.

6. 3 red tomatoes, cherry (0-5 years of age, mark age).

7. 3 red tomatoes, cherry (6-10 years of age, mark age).

8. 3 red tomatoes, cherry (11-18 years of age, mark age).

9. 3 red tomatoes, NOT cherry.

10. 3 green tomatoes.

11. 3 sweet peppers, any variety.

12. 3 hot peppers, any variety.

13. 3 ears of sweet corn.

14. Butternut squash.

15. Squash, any variety, named.

16. Eggplant.

17. Zucchini.

18. 3 cucumbers.

19. 3 beets (1" top left on).

20. Pie pumpkin.

21. Grapes, 1 bunch.

22. 3 apples, named.

23. 3 pears, named.

24. Mud Pie decorated in a Fall Festival theme, using items from nature (10 & under, mark age).

25. A collection of ORANGE coloured vegetables and/or fruit in a suitable container, not to exceed 9"x 9" or 9" in diameter.

26. A display from your vegetable garden for a center piece, in a suitable container.

27. SPECIAL: Homemade stuffed scarecrow, entry NOT to exceed 1 meter on a firm base.

Prizes: 1st: $5.00, 2nd: $4.00, 3rd: $3.00, 4th: $2.50, 5th: $2.00 Donated by John & Kim Peirce.

28. SPECIAL: Make a jack-o-lantern displayed on a firm base, using only fruits and/or vegetables.

Prizes: 1st: $5.00, 2nd: $4.00, 3rd: $3.00, 4th: $2.50, 5th: $2.00 Donated by John & Kim Peirce.

29. SPECIAL: Decorate a fruit or vegetable to look like a sunflower head, on a firm base using only fruits and/or vegetables (10 & under, mark age). 

Prizes: 1st: $5.00, 2nd: $4.00, 3rd: $3.00, 4th: $2.50, 5th: $2.00 Donated by Kelly Turnbull.

30. SPECIAL: Decorate a fruit or vegetable to look like a crow, display on a firm base, using only fruits and/or vegetables (11 & over, mark age) 

Prizes: 1st: $5.00, 2nd: $4.00, 3rd: $3.00, 4th: $2.50, 5th: $2.00 Donated by Darlene Ilett.

CREATIVE

Prizes: 1st: $3.00, 2nd: $2.50, 3rd: $2.00, 4th: $1.50, 5th: $1.00 - Unless otherwise noted

40. Mud Pie decorated to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Toronto Blue Jays winning back to back World Series, using things from nature (10 & under, mark age). 

41. Mud Pie decorated to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Toronto Blue Jays winning back to back World Series, using things from nature (11 & over, mark age). 

42. Collection of 7 gourds displayed in a cornucopia. 

43. A display from your vegetable garden for a table centrepiece. 

44. SPECIAL: Homemade stuffed scarecrow, entry not to exceed 1 meter on a firm base. Prizes: 1st: $5.00, 2nd: $3.00, 3rd: $2.00, 4th: $1.50 Donated by Kelly Turnbull. 

45. SPECIAL: Make a jack-o-lantern on a firm base, using only fruits and/or vegetables. Prizes: 1st: $5.00, 2nd: $3.00, 3rd: $2.00, 4th: $1.50 Donated by Kelly Turnbull. 

46. SPECIAL: Decorate a fruit or vegetable to look like a sunflower head, on a firm base using only fruits and/or vegetables (10 & under, mark age). Prizes: 1st: $5.00, 2nd: $3.00, 3rd: $2.00, 4th: $1.50 Donated by Darlene Ilett. 

47. SPECIAL: Decorate a fruit or vegetable to look like a crow, display on a firm base, using only fruits and/or vegetables (11 & over, mark age) Prizes: 1st: $5.00, 2nd: $3.00, 3rd: $2.00, 4th: $1.50 Donated by Darlene Ilett. 

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GRAIN, CORN & HAY

Sponsored by Dave & Shelley Scott

31. Tallest stock of corn, CUT OFF AT ROOT TOP (10 & under, mark age).

32. Tallest stock of corn, CUT OFF AT ROOT TOP (11 & over, mark age).

33. 3 ears of grain corn.

34. 4 stalks of soybeans, CUT OFF AT ROOT.

35. Sheaf of wheat or barley displayed in a can, not to exceed 2" in diameter.

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Exhibits in sections 36-40 inclusive to consist of a sample grown in 2024. The quantity to be shown is equal to 1 flake of a bale (8" slice of a small bale or equivalent from a large square or round).

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36. Hay, first cut legume.

37. Hay, first cut grass.

38. Hay, second cut legume.

39. Hay, second cut grass.

40. Hay, third cut legume.

HIGHEST POINTS: $25 donated by the Paris Horticultural Society.