Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-06-29

nesota's fish. They saia that they
never before had seen such splendid
specimens put on exhibition alive.
Fine Showing of Game.
The States game exhibit is clever
conception. 1t is scene in the nor
thern pine woods in Minnesota.
Built as a cyclorama, in the fore
ground is pine forest with birch
openings, while you look back in the
far distance to beautiful lake scene
At one side are three splenuid speci-
mounted as if coming through the
timber. The leader has scented dan
ger and stops with his head thrown
high in the air. The second is hes
itating, but the third is still on the
run. On the other side of the scene
are three red deer, one browsing, one
lying down and one eating from the
trees. A large caribou is in the fore
ground; there are also badgers, black
bears, wolves, foxes, mink and game
birds, owls and hawks, etc. The
whole making a most effective scenic
picture. It is wholly different from
any other exhibit and receives great
praise. Besides this scene is a small
space where are shown mounted
heads of moose and deer, mounted
fish, etc., with maps and photographs.
Agriculture.
Three of Minnesota's exhibits are
in the Palace of Agriculture. Agri-
culture itself occupies a space sixty
two by fifty feet. 1t is very credit
able exhibit, and the BREAD and But
ter State" the name won at Buffalo,
is made secure. The central feature
here is a great refrigerator case set
on platform about five feet high.
This platform is circling with steps
at the front leading to the top and
the sides are plates of glass back of
| which is shown the flower of the
| leading country mills, which also is
shown in small silk sacks attractive
ly arranged. The refrigerator itself
is octagonal. The floor space is ten
by eight feet and it's triple plate
glass sides rise fifteen feet above the
platform. In this is to be monu-
mental piece in butter carrying out
the domestic idea of Minnesota as the
home state. There is a pc lestal with
nearly a life size figure at each COR
ner representing Agriculture, Dairy
ing, Education and Mining, and on
the face of one side is a medallion of
Gov. Van SAINT. Growing this ped
estal is the seated figure of a mother
giving to her little child a piece of
bread and butter. The entrance to
the booth is an imposing triumphal
archway twenty-eight feet high and
crowned with banners and flags. The
sides and face of the arch are of plate
glass, two of them fourteen feet long
and back of them on velvet are beau
tiful designs in grains and grasses.
Around the whole space is a low wall
covered with casts of yellow corn as
is also the large part of the arch.
From this wall rise columns made Of
corn on the ear, capped with great
yellow pumpkins, the columns being
connected with heavy garlands Of
| grains and grasses. In the rear is a
high wall of good design also covered
| with effective decoration in agri-
cultural products while a color effect
is given by two semi-circular paint
ings of Minnesota farm scenes, be-.
low which and blending with them is
standing grain. There are along the
wall tables with glass cases in which
are shown sample corn on the cob
and potatoes and on top are rows of
glass jars filled with grains. There
are also four glass tubes five feet
high filled with wheat showing the
increased yield secured by propaga-
ton at the Agricultural College,
while near the front at either side
stand twelve handsome cases with
glass fronts showing artistic designs
and added color is given by many
large jars filled with vegetables in
preservatives. AS a whole this ex-
hibit is an excellent one and while
it has to bear comparison with those
of other states, costing from three
to twelve times as much, it is salts
faction and a source of pride to Min
nesota. 1t may be of interest to
know that nearly every state near
Minnesota has invested from $4,000
to 100000 which latter is the cost
of Missouri's display.
Remarkable Butter Models.
| In the corner space of the exposi-
ton refrigerator which is ninety feet
long, Minnesota has a space eight by
sixteen feet next to its agricultural
booth. Here will be placed another
great butter model, representing
Father Hennepin as discovering St.
Anthony Falls. The Falls are merely
suggested in one corner of the scene,
while Father Hennepin is shown as
just stepping from canoe held to
the bank of the river by a French
voyageur who is grasping piece OF
brush with his hand while an Indian
steadies the boat with his paddle. All
of these figures are about life size,
and the idea is especially appropriate
as the Exposition celebrates the pur-
chase from the French of this Louis
| lana Territory of which the Mississ-
| ippi river is the great artery of com.
MERGE In each of these butter models
over a thousand pounds of creamery
butter will be used. Work on them
has just commenced owing to the
fact that refrigeration was furnished
only June 10th, nearly six weeks
after the opening of the fair.
In the cheese case is the same delay
because of refrigeration, but Mime
| sofa there has space eight by eight
feet and the installation will be all
| mirrors with canopy OF the tri-
| color of the Exposition and an Amer.
lean flag and Exposition flag on
either side.
Horticulture.
The one remaining department OF
| the states exhibits is horticulture
| Minnesota has the strongest ano
largest horticultural society in the
Union and the very fact that it has
| not for all this been known as fruit
producing state gives a special inn
portance to this department. The in.
stallation is in white and gold. II
has prominent position and while
not large is very attractive and
| pretty. The display of fruit, both the