Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-10-19
KANSAS ABROAD.


Farm Products at the st. Louis Fair.
ST. Louis GlObc-DemOcrat.
None of the exhibits at the ST. Loui
fair are perhaps attracting so much at
tention as the collection OF agriculture
productions from the northwest ant
from the state Of Kansas, the lattel
being exhibited by the land department
of the Kansas division of the Unior
Pacific Railway company, and the for
mer by the Northern Pacific Railway
company. Great crowds daily throng
the building in which these displays
appear, TO witness the marvellous col
lections Of grasses, cereals, fruit and
vegetables-espccially those from Kan.
sas. A few weeks ago the Union Pa,
ciiic Railway company made a dis
play of Kansas products at the state
fair of Minnesota, in competition
against three strong corporations in the
northwest, and carried of to Kansas
the blue ribbon and medal, and this
fact makes the competition now at ST,
Louis very interesting. The defeat in
their own territory was too much for
the Northern Pacific people TO bear,
and chatting under it they appeared at
st. Louis, determined to regain what
they had lost, but the gentlemen who
led the army of retaliation did not
seem TO comprehend the strength and
number of their enemy's resources,
else they would not haverlskcd another
engagement. But out of the contest
the people who are in search of cheap
farms in the west can learn valuable
lesson. The greater variety and the
superiority in general of the Kansas
products in comparison with those Of
the colder climate and protractcd Win
terS secured for the Kansas display. the
second time within few weeks. the
first premium, and as there were at st.
Louis but two compCttU.,, the see
ond premium silver mcdal-as
n consequence went to display No ,.
That Kansas is a wonderful state, all
people must admit; that in both dispar-
agement and in praise more has been
said OF her than of any other state;
but when her prizes are recounted the
cumming w Pl''NuVo " hloSl i"Nol'uIc
result, and proves beyond question
that as an agricultural state she has no
superior, and but very few, if any.
equals. Beginning with the centcn-
nial, her exhibit there was the best.
Then in 1878, at the Cincinnati Indus
trial exposition, she took first prize, and
at the St, Louis fair, the following year.
the Iirst premium was awarded her.
In 1881 she was first at the Illinois
state fair, and at the Atlanta Cotton
exposition, in the same year, she was
declared the victor, and during the
present year she has taken three first
premiums, and has not yet met with Il
single defeat, although strong efforts
have been made to beat her. Some
people may think that it was fool-hard-
iness for the Union Pacific to 90 up
into Minnesota with Kansas products
and contend against three strong ri
walls, and also against patriotism and
prejudice and expect to gain any glory
by the effort, Upon reelection every
person who has n knowledge of the eli
mate of the two regions, must see ut
once the great natural advantage pos
soSsod hy The grout central state.
To Il casual observer, an array of
large lunches of shccvcs uf wheat anu
oats, all nearly of the same variety,
may appear as attractive as the display
of u great variety Of smaller, but
superior sample. This is what con-
stitutos the difference in the two dis
plays now at our fair. Ofuscful wild
grasses Kansas presents seventy-lve
varieties, while the northwest has not
one fourth of that number. In wheat,
oats, rye, barley and some other
cereals, Kansas shows over 200 differ
cnt kinds, while her rival has cOmpara-
lively but few. In corn the variety
and quality from Kansas are so superior
that ii is useless to attempt cOmpari-
son, and the same also applies to fruit.
The Kansas display embraces over 800
named varieties of apples, pears and
peaches, some of which are of unusual
size and quality; also thirty-livc varie-
ties of grasses. There are stalks of
corn eighteen feet high, and of broom
corn twenty feet also (rico-corn,)
sorghum and hemp, of great growth;
one pumpkin of $50 pounds, and n
great variety of vegetables. There are
forty kinds of Irish and sweet potatoes.
The cultivated grasses are an attract
i've feature OF this display, especially
the millct in about six varieties, some
of which is nearly eight feet high.
There are some fine specimens Of TIM
othy, Hungarian and white and red
clover, also alfalfa, which frequently
yields three crops in one summer and
makes fine fodder There is also u fine
collection of coal, stone and marble,
and about soventy-tive different kinds
of wood. Kansas people must certain
ly feel proud of her fine record, for in
agricultural displays she stands to-day
without a peer. The millers of the
northwest are buying large quantities
of Kansas No. l hard winter wheat;
they find it to be the best for export
flour,