Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-08-26

conversion, proselyte that would have
been a shining light but time was linn
ited
Sugar cane, cotton and rice straw were
used here in decorations. Rice is the
speciality here, and am indebted to the
editor of the Delta for some heads OF
rice, also souvenir package of rice with
directions for cooking same. One feels
in looking at this exhibit that the beauty
of the Egyptian columns made of sugar
cane is not appreciated because the
space seems crowded, but this is inevita-
BILE, you find it go often true. Those
Egyptian columns commemorate the
fact that in Egypt sugar was first used.
The Carolinas have no state building,
so one does not know where to look for
the painting, if there be such, represent
| ing the famous meeting of their COVER
nors, when they issued the famous man
ifesto determining the periodicity of
drinks.
But North Carolina, though suffering
from lack of appropriations, is trying to
make the most of her allotted, about g.
600 feet space. In the center OF this ex-
hibit is beautiful and tastefully ap-
pointed pavilion which is used as an
Office for the management. A souvenir
handbook of North Carolina and two
cotton balls from her exhibit will re-
mind me of the courteous kindness of
the manager should ever forget the
visit.
Missouri has 3,240 square feet of space.
The designer was still working at this
exhibit, which bids fair to be, when
finished, the best of all the state exhib-
its. Her display is the most varied and
complete. Her pavilion shows the Eads
bridge at St. Louis, worked out in cane
and decorated with grains. A life-size
horse made of grain is an attraction
here. The grains are laid so perfectly,
and the name and tail are made of feath-
pampass grass; you admire the horse
and wonder at the perseverance of the
decorator who did the work. In truth,
with her coat of arms, worked out in
grains, her stuffed birds and magnifi-
cent peacocks adjoining the columns,
Missouri is envied not a little by some
of her palmer neighbors. Her collection
of fruits. is fine. The Olden fruit farm
in Howell county, the largest in the
world is represented.
Oregon came next. This an interest
ing and well filled space, and provided
with an enthusiastic manager who
makes up in intelligent explanation
what the exhibit may lack in artificial
beauty. This is an exhibit that makes
you think of the resources of state,
and that state first, last and all the time
is Oregon. Here are the growth of some
of the grains you find: Wheat feet,
rye s feet, oats feet, orchard grass 7
feet. But the industry which interested
me most, because most novel, was the
raising of hops, of which the manager
gave an interesting description, begin
ming with the planting of the yard to
the gathering of from 1000 to 5000 lbs.
per acre. The principal hop gardens
are in the Willamette valley, and &C
cording to statistics must be very profit
able to owners, because of certainty of
crop and good prices. The cost of rails
ing hops runs from to 10 cents per lb.
while selling price ranges from Is cents
to 81 per lb.
The wool showing here must make
glad the hearts of the sheep-men. Some
beautiful samples of Cotswold aeeces were
IL inches in length, while some brown
Oxfords measured Is inches, then there
were samples of Spanish Merino as fine
and lustrous as silk. couldn't forbear
the question, "What do your sheep-men
think of the price of wool?" but this
isn't tariff discussion.
One would 60 on describing state and
foreign exhibits here till we would have
no time for the annex, and this contains
the agricultural implements. Here my
knowledge of farming came in and I
tried to call all of the farm machinery
that had ever known of, then 1 would
ask for the exhibit.
The P. P. Mast & Co. people, who
make the Buckeye implements, have a
fine exhibit and it is in charge of Kan
sas man too. And when one is away
from home even to the fair, an individ-
ual from the same state, even is most
interesting exhibit in himself. These
people sent in one shipment last year of
seventeen car loads of implements to
our state. While was looking at an
implement here in operation a couple
were walking hurriedly through the
aisles. The lady noticing the machinery
said, 80, wait Harry, what is that?"
"Oh, come on" returned Harry, Its
nothing but rainmaker;" and /
thought poor lady! my husband is bet
ter farmer than that.
The Keystone Manufacturing compa-
ny, of Sterling, Ills, has some interest
ino machinarv Como fhof ura will howe