The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1903-09-05
GRENADA, MISS, SEPTEMBER s, 1903.
WHERE COTTON s KING.
For The First Time, Mississippi viii on.
eially Display Her Resources At
Worlds Fair.

Mississippi will spend, on the
exhibit she is preparing for the
Worlds Fair at St. Louis, more than
twenty times the amount she did on
the exhibit at the Columbian Exposi-
tion at Chicago. For that fair o., 500
was appropriated by the State. For
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
CSC, 600 has already been appropriated
by the legislature, and when that
body again oonvenes in January, 1904,
it is expected that this sum will be
largely augmented.
A splendid site was early allotted
to the State on which will be built a
pavilion, to be used as headquarters
for visitors from Mississippi and for
their friends. The site is a level
tract on the State plateau, east OF
the Iowa building and south OF New
jersey.
r. H. Henry, the Executive Commis-
sioner, has visited nearly every county
in the State delivering addresses,
working up interest, and securing
features for the State exhibit.
Mississippians assert that their
State has never been properly repre-
sented at previous great expositions,
and they have determined to demon
|strate at st. Louis, in 1904, that the
lich soil of Mississippi in the produc-
tion of diversified crops cannot be
excelled anywhere, and that the State
produces anything and everything
that can be produced in any State
in the Union.
Ia the Palace of Agriculture, Mis-
sissippi will make a great cotton
exhibit. In the production OF this
commodity, Mississippi claims to lea6
: the world, and every phase Of tht
cotton industry will come in for treat
usent. Cotton will be shown growing
in the fields. How it is picked, trans
pcr5ed, carried through the cotton
lgins, baled, and made into cloth viii
all be shown In interesting detail
How cotton seed eli is extracted, am
the various articles made from ttt
\ product will also interest the visitor
n While cotton is king in Mississippi
, 1 other crops are by no means neglect
ed. Total crop failures, which hav
1 occurred in less favored States, ar
unknown there Hay and grasses grow
spontaneously Besides these pro
lductS the exhibit in the agriculture
Il department will embrace wheat, oats
rice, barley, peas, pumpkins, suga
lcane, tobacco, clever, millett, maiz
with other important products of tn
1farm.
u Fruit farms and gardens thrive i
| Mississippi and yield bountiful crop
3all the year round There is never
1month that some valued crop may nc
be harvested. This will be demon
strated by the large exhibit in tn
Palace OF Horticulture, where will b
shown peaches, apples, plumS, pear!
grapes, cherries, berries, ounces
figs, tomatoes, beans, vegetables, cal
bages, turnipS, radishes, and Othe
II fruits and vegetables.
Strawberries yield abundantly q
the hills and rolling lands of Ea<
Mississippi, and from Meridian mort
to Corinth, along the line OF th
mobile s. Ohio Railroad, the luciol
fruits is grown with much prof
Excellent transportation facilities pc
NIT the berries to quickly reach tt
northern market, and sell at tt
\ high prices that prevail early in tt
season.
: Mississippi women who are takin
an enthusiastic part in their Stat
exhibit, will make telling display
the art department. and in the buil'
ing set aside for woman s work.
For the State building, Mississippi
will reproduce "Beauvoir, the hon
LOT Jefferson Davis. The histor
mansion will be faithfully produces
and will contain many old works
art and historic relics.-Ex.