The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-06-13

Virginia's Apples at the Big Show
Richmond Should Have a Tobacco
Exhibit-Alabama's State House in
Corn-The Agricultural Exhibit of
misunderstanding Exhibit From
the State Department-Negro Ex.
hibit in the Liberal Arts Department.
Especial Correspondence of the Gold Leaf }
Buffalo, n. Y, June 13, 'Ol.
Virginia's exhibit of apples is
sttractively displayed in the Horti-
culture Building and general regret
is expressed that Richmond did not
at least exploit her fine tobaccos
here. Other cities, which cannot
compare with the Capitol of the Old
Dominion as tobacco manufacturing
centers, have spent hundreds of dol
lars in exhibiting to Pan-Americans
what they can do in this direction.
AS the factories of Richmond are fed
by the products of the rich golden
tobacco belt of North Carolina it
would have paid two States to have
had a full exhibit here. Perhaps it
is not yet too late. and if one or two
energetic men will take hold of it
now, the Exposition authorities will
cordially cooperate with them.
Alabama made an appropriation of
s., 900 for the Pan-Ameriean Exposi-
ton. The States commissioners
have been on the ground less than =
week and they did not begin to in
stall their products until Saturday,
but the work was all finished Monday
night. The commission is composed
of three members, r. F. Poole. j. c.
Adams and l.. w. German, the last
of whom will remain in constant
charge of the exhibit through the
Exposition period. Mr.. German is
newspaper man from Opelika, Ala
bama. The installation in the Agri-
culture Building is very artistic and
for the amount of money used makes
Il most creditable display. What
attracts most attention is the State
House at Montgomery reproduced in
corn. 1t is the old colonial style Of
architecture. with long piazza in
front which is of especial historic in
terest because it was here Jefferson
Davis took the oath of office as Presi-
dent of the Southern Confederacy.
| Cotton as well as corn is conspicuous,
though the Alabama pavilion contains
about every agricultural product
| known to America. Commissioner
| German says:
I'VE can grow pretty near anything
| oil nf ho a
farmer comes into the State stranger.
He plants anything he wants to and
get good crop. There is no weather
like this in Alabama. Trees are in
leaf there the year round. | hope
this weather changes soon, but if this
is the kind of weather you produce in
Buffalo, then hope | will get accli-
mated as soon as possible"
| Mr.. f. S. Fursman, the corn king
of Illinois says if he were younger
man he would pull up stakes and
emigrate to Alabama" He adds,
Though | am too old to go myself
have sent a number of young men
there. 1t is great State and is going
to be greater one"
MIR. Robert NJ. Yost. Secretary Of
the Missouri Commission says: Corn
is Missouri's biggest speciality. She
raised 1875, 100000 bushels in 1900.
She still hangs on to her mule indus
| try, too. She produced mules to the
value of $20,OO0,OOO last year. Her
chickens are becoming famous all
over the country. The value Of the
poultry produced last year was 500
| 900, 900. In that year she also pro-
duced s95, ,O00,O worth of cattle,
$15, 900, 900 worth of hogs, $50, ,OO0,-
900 worth of horses, 50, 900, 900 worth
of zinc and lead ore, 5000. 900
bushels of wheat, $4,000, 900 bushels
Of oats, and 10000 bales OF cotton.
These and other statistics about the
State are given on charts placed
about the booth. They show at a
glance what the State is doing in agri
culture and other INDUSTRIES
The Missouri pavilion in the Agri-
culture Building is arranged with
great taste. In the center is blue
tower of oetagonal shape, 81 feet
high. 1t is topped by shock Of
grain, bearing the name and arms of
Missouri. This banner is higher than
any other exhibit object in the build
ing and can be seen from nearly all
the doors leading into the building.
In the lower part of the grain tower
is shown behind panel of grass,
Arranged in glass cases and jars on
step-like shelves beginning at the
floor and extending to height Of six
feet. are oats. wheat, over 100 varie-
ties of shelled corn, many kinds OF
timothy seed, beans and peas. Huge
cauliliowers. muskmelons and car
rots, preserved in liquid, are shown
in large bottles. On the counter
forming the Northern boundary OF
the booth rest. a squash weighing 81
pounds. 1t is said too, that this isn't
much Of a wonder in Missouri, but
that squashes often grow to that size
there However, the enthusiastic
Superintendent OF the exhibit. j, F.
Crum baugh, Of Columbia, Mo-, ad
mits that the average Missouri squash
is trifie smaller.
Exhibits OF cotton and wool are
shown, for Missouri does quite bust
ness in both. One case shows the
different stages of wool, from the
fleece of the sheep to the manufac
, tured cloth.
, There is a group Of "official treat
les in the exhibit of the Department
of State, which excites much curios
ity. One of these is written in Greei
on a slab of white Penteiican marble
1t was found among the ruins OF thu
Acropolis and belongs to the age o
Pericle.. 1t is treaty between tn
Athenians and Chalcideans. Th
translation, made by Professor Basi
Gildersleeve, Johns Hopkins Cniver
sity. accompanies it: 1t was sent t
United States Department of Stat
, bv Merideth Read when he was Min
ister to Greece, but has never befor