The Green Forest tribune., 1903-06-27
A WORLDS FAIR EXHIBIT.
Growing Crops Represent Map
 of the United States.

Growing on six acres of gentle Southern slope of Tesson Hill at the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- tion, St. Louis, is the largest geographically correct map ever constructed.
 This map is 480 feet long from east to west and extends from north to south 240 feet. The map is the main feature of the large exhibit by the Bureau of Plant industry of the Department of Agriculture, and is personally conducted by D. A. Brodie, late superintendent of the Western Washington Experiment Station, under the direction of Prof. W. J. SpiIlman, agrostologist of the United States Department of Agriculture.
 The Bureau of Plant Industry is made up of eight offices com prising vegetable physiology and pathology, fibre plant inyestiga- tion, poisonous and medical plants investigation and every phase of plant life. Each of the eight offices is presided over by a chief, and by vote of the com bined offices w. J. Spillman, professer of agrostology, was elected to have complete control of this exhibit authorized by an act of congress. Brodie was elected to have supervision of the planting and cultivation.
 The several acres were fenced off early in April; and the entire tract was richly fertilized. The ground was plowed and harrow ed, the soil pulverized, and the entire tract sowed to COW peas. This crop not only enriches the soil, but prevents the growth of weeds and will render the sub- sequent blowing unnecessary. As the crops to be grown will be required to be planted at inter- vals up to a short time before the opening of the Exposition further blowing would prove imprac- ticable. When an exhibit is ready to be installed the garden CTS simply pull up the COW peas covering the space required. The ground is found to be in recep- tive condition and requires but little work upon it.
 The monster map, is, of course, the main feature of this compre- hensive exhibit, and the crop grown on this small farm will cost the government considerably more than S1 ,0O0 per acre.
 A belt of blue grass lawn 20 feet wide establishes the boundry and coast lines of this gigantic map. The boundry lines between the states are marked by cinder paths three feet wide. The ter rftory comprising the fourteen states and territories of the Louis jana Purchase is marked by a white gravel walk. The states themselves are to be planted in growing crops of the principal agricultural products Of the state. The cinder and gravel walks serve as promenades, and are of sufficient width to permit the free passage of visitors. Thus a laDrynth of paSsageways is creat- ed and the visitor may wend his way through the maze and see by actual demonstration just what crops are grown in every part of the United States and how they are raised. The cereals will be the features of the great north west, while down in Florida will be seen growing the pineapple and orange and other semitropi- cal fruit crops. Tobacco will be a prominent feature of Ken tucky's allotment, while sugar cane and cotton will be found growing in the plots of ground representing other southern states.
 Not only will the products of each state be shown on this map by growing crops, but the section Of the state on which each cOm-