The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1902-11-15
Monster Garden Map of
States.

space has Oeen allOtteu III tue
western part of the Worlds
Fair grounds for great garden
map Of the United States. The
allotment was made upon the
application of w. J. Spillman of
the Government Department of
Agriculture, expert in grasses
and forage plants. The map will
constitute part.of tie exhibit
of the Bureau of plant Industry
and will have southern expos
ure we'll suited tor the purpose.
Two acres will be taken up with
this map. The state lines will
will be marked by walks in Gin
ders, red gravel or some other
material. In each state reserva-
ton will be shown the economic
plants produced in that state and
for which the state is known.
The corn of Kansas, the wheat of
the middle states, the cotton,
tobacco and 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 normal
ly will be forced under glass in
hot beds. Mr.. Splllman says
two acres will be sufficient to
carry out this plan, allowing an
acre 2OOX4OO feet. This will
make the state of Illinois about
IS feet long.
With this map spread out on
the southern slope, in the place
allotted, it would appear from the
Agric culture Building Hill like a
BIRDS eye view of the United
States, while the visitor walking
on the paths would SO far as
vegetation was concerned, be
travelling through the country.
The outdoor exhibit will have
a number of additional features
which will make it the most re-
markable agricultural exhibit
ever made on earth. The out
door exhibit is a novelty. 1t was
tried in miniature at two former
American expositions but at
those expositions it was confined
to grasses and forage plants.
The range Of the present out
door exhibit is shown by the
following points which will be
covered by it.
1. A cereal exhibit in which
will be shown growing every
species of wheat, oats, barley,
rye, corn, emmer, spelt and
einkorn. AS there are over
1900 varieties of wheat and some
hundreds Of corn, the extent of
this exhibit may be judged.
?. Diseases of field and garden
crops. Plants will be shown
afflicted with various diseases
and one half of the plants will be
treated scientifically to show how
the disease may be eliminated.
Thus, potatoes will be inoculated
with blight and half the plants
treated to kill the blight. Smut
ted oats will be shown under the
same conditions.
3. Plant breeding or crossing
OF varieties will be shown by
offering the parent plants and the
by brid growing between. Many
varieties of hybrid wheats and of
vegetables hybridized to produce
strange varieties will be shown.
q. The treatment of Sand
Dunes with vegetation to bind the
loose sand ard prevent it from
blowing under storm winds. The
department has prepared bind
ing grass which grows on the
sand and makes the shifty dunes
a solid soil. Dunes will be shown
in the exhibit covered with vege-
tation.
5. The rotation of crops. An
ideal farm covered with crops
which follow in rotation in extern
sive farming will be shown. The.
rotation as produced in the best
farm is: First corn; second oats;
third clover; and timothy. On an
area of a few rods long this farm
can easily be shown.
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