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the finest representative varieties of
all that Missouri soil produces (Which
means every known farm product ex-
cept the purely tropiea) Missou-! has
given the world an object lesson which
will indelibly stamp her as truly great.
This splendid exhibit is the reward
that ONE from systematic work. The
Missouri Worlds Fair Agricultural
Commission. backed up by the people
Of the state, pushed along with an in
domitable will and a persistent effort
to show Missouri's greatness in a
manner that would reflect credit,
brought it about.
1t would be extremely unkind and
ina%ppreciative to close this article
without placing the credit for the sue
cess of this magnificent exhibit where
1t properly belongs.
The people of Missouri recognize
and appreciate the efficient services
Of Commissioner J. o. Allison, Super
intendent H. ]. Waters, and Field Rep
resentatiyes Col. G. w. Waters and
Hon. Matt. w Hall. Through their un-
firing efforts it was that Missouri Is
SO grandly represented at the Louisi-
ana Purchase Exposition.
The splendid decorative work in
the Missouri exhibit, which everybody
admires and praises, is due to the in
genuity of d Missourian, Mr.. e. d. Al
len, of st. Louis, and he too deserves
honorable mention in this write-up for
his splendid taste, artistic arrange
ment and skillful workmanship.
For the statistical information given
in this article, the writer is indebted
to our own Walter Williams, editor
Of the great Missouri book, who has
done more towards familiarizing the
world with Missouri's greatness than
any other living Missourian.
Il am willing to swear to anything
Walter Williams says, barring poll
tics.)
In conclusion, let me say that Mis-
souri's Agricultural Exhibit is indica-
tive of M prominent fact, and that is
that no state In the Union has made
greater advancement along agricultur-
al lines than has Missouri, and the
world will hear of her still greater
achievements in the neal future.
To know Missouri is to love her.
GRAND OLD MISSOURI.
W. o. L. Jewett, Of the Shelbina
Democrat, in an impromptu address,
commended highly the paper read by
Mr.. Bartholomaeus and praised the
work of the Missouri Commission.
Compressed Missouri is a book of
interest to the world. As the great
presses of the cotton mills take a bale
OF cotton and compress 1t into a new
bale one-fourth the original size, SO
has a Missourian succeeded in COM
pressing the 44,247,6S6 acres CT land
and water; the history of a century;
the millions of cattle and hogs; over
$14S,0O0 900 worth of buildings; sur
plus products valued at over $3.50, 000,-
900, and her 3,1O6, 665 people, her
mountains and valleys, rivers and
lakes, country and cities into a space
7x11x1 inches. 1t contains all, not a
thing escaped, and in this form is Mis-
souri, presented to the world by the
Missouri State Commission, through
Mr.. Walter Williams.
In this book are many things that
will sound like fairy tales to those
who do not know Missouri, for they
will find:
The best school system in the
world, more colleges and high schools
than any other state, a university that
ranks with the best and all attended
so as to make a harmonious whole. A
public school fund of $1S,023,997, sup
plemented by endowments to private
schools of $S,9SS,322 over 10000
school houses and nearly a million
school children. The expenses for
the public schools each year amount
to $10.959,S2S. This is Missouri's
pride.
Missouri is called an agricultural
state, yet the product of her factories
amount to 1886, 492. 7S4, her standing
being seventh in the whole.
Her surplus farm products including
live stock aggregate $449, S97, 900. This
amount is not surprising to those who
know the fertility of her soil, her rich
pastures Of blue grass, that make a
Kentuckian turn green with envy; her
rich bottom lands that produce crops
so large they worry the farmer to COW
er them; her fine rolling prairies that
excel the world in beauty and fertil-
ity. Is it any wonder that thousands
from other states are seeking homes
in Missouri?
In South Missouri we find scenery
that excels the world, and with it min
erals that enrich mankind; lead and
zinc are found in such vast quantities
as to make Missouri first in their pro-
duction,
On the slopes of the Ozark noun
tains can be found the finest timber, but
1t is fast giving wayto that fruit which
excels all others-the big red apple.
Not in that section only but all over
Missouri this fruit may be found. To-
day over 25.000,O 900 apple trees grow
from her soil, and exporters find here
the best.
In addition all other fruits are
grown in the state, and We find the
enormous sum Of $40, 000, 900 as the
value of these crops
The greater part of the state in I'M
derlaid with coal, giving the factories
cheap fuel. The production Is enormous
and Missouri ranks well with her
neighbors.
These are some Of the things you
find in compressed Missouri, but they
are only a few. Page after page Is
full, they had to be. One thing i'm
p~ortant to the world at large is how
Missouri is governed. With a popuia-