Omaha daily bee., 1898-01-23
NEBRASKA COUNTY EXHIBITS
Consolidation of Articles Considered More
Favorably by Commission.
CHANGE IN THE COMMISSIONS PLAN
Collective Arrangement in Proper
Building VIII lie Permitted If As
sistant Secretary bearings
Efforts Are Successful.

It Is likely that when the Nebraska Expo
sition commission holds It's regular meet
ing next week. commencing Tuesday even
Ing, there will be radical departure in the
plans of the commission regarding allowing
Nebraska counties to make separate exhibits
in the main buildings and put up placards
announcing the name of the county in which
tho products displayed were grown Assist
ant Secretary w. H. Dearing has been work
ing for some time on plan which will al
low counties to exhibit their products In
groups, and label each group with the name
of the county from which 1t comes. This
does not mean that any county will be al
lowed to make collective exhibit, so-called,
that is, to make an exhibit OF horticulture.
agriculture and other products in one group.
but that any county which cares to do so
may make an exhibit of agricultural prod
ucts in the space provided by the state in
the Agricultural building, and its horticul-
tural products in the Horticultural building,
and so on, each county furnishing the ma
terial comprising the exhibit and paying the
expense of installing II.
This Is a matter which has formed the
subject of a large number of letters which
have reached the office of the Nebraska
commission and the matter has been dis
Cussed at length by the commission Many
of the counties in the state are anxious to
be allowed to make such exhibits, especially
the eastern counties. They write that they
are willing to pay the expense attendant
upon such an exhibit, providing the state
will furnish the space and allow the name
of the county to be displayed. The state
commission has already purchased a large
amount of space in the various buildings,
the amount reserved in the Agricultural
building being especially large The plan OF
the commission thus far has been to make
a state exhibit showing the agricultural re
sources of the state without reference to
any particular county, This idea has proved
very unpopular with the counties and the
state commission has been obliged to pur-
chase all the material desired for making
such an exhibit The producers say that
II they or the county In which they live are
not to receive the credit FOR the products
grown there by having the name OF the
county displayed they viii not contribute
tho material, but will sell the commission
all IL wants. The fact has been growing on
the commission that this would prove a
very expensive method of making an eN-
hibit and large amount OF money mas
already been expended in this manner with
the result that the commission has great
deal of material on hand. This could be
utilized, however, ia case the suggestions
o. Dr. Dearing are approved by the COM
mission and will not be lost
Mr. Dearug has had some correspondence
with Prof. II. w, Taylor, superintendent OF lhe
agricultural bureau of the Department OF EN-
hibits, with a view of. learning II any obJec-
tlons would be raised to county displays In
the Agriculture building, the idea being TO
have the corn wheat potatoes, pumpkins
watermeons and other products of each
county arranged In such form as the county
managers may select, but TO have con-
t.nuouS agricultural exhibit in the space as
signed to Nebraska. Prof. Taylor says hs
Can see no objection to such an arrangement.
Fortified with these documents. Assistant
Secretary Dearing will bring the matter be-
Tore the commission at its next meeting and
u Is probable that this course will be
adopted. There has been a great deal OF
protest from the counties in the state re-