The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-10-23
DAKOTA'S EXHIBIT.
Arrival Of the Dakota Car or
Products at Mil
waukee.
milwaukee Sentinel.l

The product car" containing samples OF
grain and vegetable products grown in Gen.
trail and Southern Dakota arrived Mt the
Union Depot
The car il IN ordinary passenger coach,
with the seats removed and with shelves
encircling the interior. The outer sides Of
the car are decorated with oil paintings
representing the Dakota harvest fields and
South Dakota landscape views. The ex-
hibits are from Clay, Union. Lincoln,
lankton, Bon Homme, and other counties
in Dakota reached by the st. Paul Rail-
way. The car will go from Chicago to
Detroit, Buffalo, New England. and the
Canadas. After an absence of two months
in the East, the car will be taken to New
Orleans for exhibition ut the Worlds Fair
The interior of the coach presented Il
very attractive appearance. The roof WAS
tastefully trimmed with fox. gn,sses and
grains, wrought into numerous designs
and artistically arranged. Right under
meath the roof were eight or nine different
varieties of corn in the ear-yellow dent,
yellow flint. white flint, strawberry, etc.
The white flint corn grows to the length of
Ia inches. Below the corn display are
the shelves containing specimens of Dakota
vegetables. There are sweet potatoes
weighing three pounds. from lankton;
Irish potatoes grown in Elk Point. Union
County: cucumbers, egg plant, water and
musk melons, sauashes, beets, cabbage, and
all kinds of fruit. 4 display is also made
of preserves from Sioux Falls, consist
ing Of plums. blackbenies, mspbenies,
gooseberries, curnnts. The vegetables,
many of them, are of mon
from II to 90 pounds. and are grown in
I'm, he.
pumpkins weighing so pounds, water
melon from Yankton weighing 81 pounds,
and other samples of vegetables of far more
than the usual weight. The largest is
squash. raised by o. Y. Knowles, ut kanm,
Lincoln County. Its circumference is 3
feet and inch, and its weight lS5 pounds.
There are also samples Of wheat. oats, rye,
barley, and fax, Of superior quality. The
spare room in the car il occupied by ex-
hibits Of bunch grass, feet high, timothy
with heads inches long, blue joint grass
"a feet high. and red-top s feet high.
A show is also made of peanuts grown in
iankton. They grow upon vines hk. po-
tatoes, and are dug from the ground. There
are specimens Of Sioux Falls granite, very
hard. and capable Of n fine polish, as
smooth rs marble.
There also we'd Mt the Union Depot n
locomotive and tender, constructed entirely
Of wheat. oats, and evergreen sprigs. The
locomotive is eight feet in length, and every
feature of the ordinary railway engine is
reproduced in miniature. The cowcatcher,
bell. whistle drive wheels. steam chest,
piston rods. headlight, and everything
else, are all there. The figures 80 are
painted upon the headlight, denoting that
Dakota will be the thirty ninth State when
admitted to the Union. Accompanying the
locomotive Is baggage ear aud sleeper,
perfect in form, and constructed of Dakota
gn,ins and grasses. The whole is the work
Of VIM Sibben, of Aberdeen, aud has &C.
cupied his time for about three weeks. II
is very ereditable display of ingenuity,
| taste, and patience.