The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-11-14
You Can Walk Through This Big
Map and Study the United States.
THE AGRICULTURAL TxHIBlTs
Planned by Government Expert
This Portion of the Worlds Fair in
View of Everything That is Grown
In This Country How 1t Is Done.

st. Louis, Nov. 10-Space has been
allotted in the western part of the
worlds fair grounds for a great gar
den map of the United States. The
allotment was made upon the appli-
cation of w. J. Spillman of the gov
ernment department of agriculture eI-
pert in grasses and forage plants.
The map will constitute a part of the
exhibit of the bureau of plant indus
try, and will have a southern expos
ure we'll fitted for the purpose.
Two acres will be taken up with
this map. The state lines will be
marked by walks in cinders, red
gravel or some other material. In
each state reservation will be shown
the economic plants produced in the
state and for which the state is
known.
The corn of Kansas, the wheat of
the middle states, the cotton, tobacco,
an sugar cane of the southern states,
the orange and pineapple of Florida
will all be shown. Those plants
which do not grow in this latitude
normally will be forced under glass
in hotbeds.
Mr.. Spillman says that two acres
will be sufficient to carry out this
plan allowing an acre 200X400 feet.
This would make the state of Hi
nois about rs feet long.
With this map spread out on the
southern slope in the place allotted
it would appear from the agricultural
building hill like a birds eye view
of the United States, while the visi
tor walking on the patch would, sc
far as vegetation was concerned, be
travelling through the country.
The outdoor exhibit will have g
number of additional features, which
will make it the most remarkable
agricultural exhibit ever made OF
earth The outdoor exhibit is a nov
city. 1t was tried in miniature a
two former American eXpositions
but at those expositions it was con
fined to forage plants and grasses
The range of the present outdoor ex
hibit is shown by the following point
which will be covered by it:
/. A cereal exhibit, in which vii
be shown growing every species o
wheat oats, barley, rye, corn, en-
mer spelt an cinkorn. AS there ar
over 1000 varieties of wheat an
some hundreds of corn, the extent c
this exhibit may be judged.
2. Diseases of field and garde
crops. Plants will be shown Athlete
with various diseases, and one-ha
the plants will be treated scientific
ally, to show how the disease ma
be eliminated. Thus, potatoes wi
be inoculated with blight, and ha
Smutted oats will be shown unde
the same conditions.
8. Plant breeding or crossing
varieties will be shown by offerir
the parent plants and the hybr
growing between. Many varieties
hybrid wheats and of garden veg
tables hybridized to produce strans
varieties will be shown.
4. The treatment of sand dune
with vegetation to bind the loo
sand and prevent it from BLOWN
under storm winds. The departing
has prepared binding grass, whic
grows on the sand and makes t
shifty dunes solid soil. Dunes W
be shown in the exhibit covered wi
vegetation.
s. The rotation of crops.
ideal farm, covered with crops viii
follow in rotation in extensive far
ing, will be shown. The 'otation
produced in the best farm is: Fir
corn; second, oats; third, clover a