The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-09

titles of farm products shown, as well as
careful OF their quality. Grains are in
bushel and half bushel measures, instead
of small glass jars. Watermelons sincs.
the southeastern counties began to send in
their crop. have been exhibited in carload
lots. All the decorations of this section.
which are elaborate, are carried out with
farm products.
/ The Kansas exhibitors pay especial at
ltention to corn and forage plants, and in
the middle of the section is a statue of a
corn fed Kansas steer, life size-may be a
little mere. Stalks of grass on exhibition
are ten, even fifteen feet in length, and
corn far beyond the twenty foot mark.
Vegetables are of immense proportions.
Alfalfa roots are shown ten feet or SO in
length in connection with statement to
the erect that the entire distance pene-
eraleu py the roots of this hardest or
forage plants is fertile soil that only &C.
ca sionaily. with modern systems of cultl-
lVdtlon, runs short of needed moisture. The
Isorghpm and beet sugar industries receive
1coitslaeraole attention, for they are grow
ing in Kansas
KING COTTON.
All the Southern States make much OF
cotton, the principal money crop of that
region. Mississippi has the largest of the
AihS Cotton statues, standing rather
!slttlng-twenty-five feet high. The figure
IS much out of proportion. but is never
tneless impressive. The life size figures
u the negro cotton pickers around the
odse are we'll done. Around the throne
tooii or the fieecy monarch are bales OF
tne pest cotton Mississippi affords, most
Oh them arrayed in highly colored wrap
plhss or line cloth. the metal ties gilded.
lhey form a striking contrast with the
commercial cotton bales near by. clothed
ties. -
One side of the Texas section is occu-
pied with an immense star. the state
symool, in corn and cotton, the two prod
ucts IN which the State takes most pride,
Whlle IN the midst is the picture of a cow
Iooy breaking bucking broncho on the
Satele range, representing the great m
oSsy OF peer raising. So far Texas has
SHOWN the largest watermelons. souashes
pumpkins and beets that have been ex-
/ ninited. but other States insist that thav
VIII show Texas a thing or two before
the season is over.
Arkansas which was the only one Of
the States to have its agricultural ax-
hioit ready promptly on the day of tbe
opening OF the fair, pays particular atten-
! tlon TO the products of cotton Snocinors
of cottonseed oil in all the staeas ~
manufacture and refining are exhibited In
order and the uses of the cottonseed
meal are exemplifed The tobacco raisers
OF the state make a good showing and
/ tnere is an extensive line of preserved
| fruits
! SOME FAMILIAR PRODUCTS.
All the dairy exhibits of the various
states are grouped together for conveu-
fence EVERYTHING is in cold storage, the
plate glass fronts leaving all the articles
within plainly to be seen, but sufficiently
cool TO be kept all summer without spoil
ing Two purposes are thus served-to
snow q States dairy products, which could
not otherwise be done to advantage, and
10 demonstrate the utility of cold storage
for commercial purposes
| New York occupies more space In this
exhibit than any other one State In one
ssctlon Is a large model OF the Liberty
Bell done In butter, and life size bust
Of President Roosevelt in the same ma
! terial The other sections occupied by
/ New york are filled with cheeses Of ex-
traordinary variety In size, shape, and
| coloring.
Missouri has the biggest cheese. It
weighs something like four thousand two
hundred pounds and is said to be strong
1 IN proportion. though this may come from
some Jealous rival. Anyway, there is
enough in it to feed a big army ait least
once ~ ~ -
! All the States attempt to be decorative
in this exhibit, but the result hasanot al
ways been satisfactory For instance,
North Dakota has an equestrian statue OF,
President Roosevelt in butter. 1t has been
The cause of heated controversies In the
State Commission and much testing COM
ment by casual visitors. In Dakota. 1t Is
said. the disputation at one time threat
ened to get into politics The original art
list declared the trouble all started because
he was commissioned for the work In
stead OF another artist. and Intfnates that
professional jealousy alone Is at the bot
tom Of the criticism.
..NEBRASKA'S THEATRE.
Nebraska has novel means of enter
tanning visitors. In its section Is built a
comfortable theatre. seating about two
hundred persons and every half hour
through the day biograph pictures of Ne
ibraska farm life are thrown on canvas
while a lecturer sets forth in glowing
terms the attractions of farm life in his
Estate.
An agricultural display without farm
implements would be incomplete But
these are present in great quantities The
enterpriSing manufacturers, not content
merely to show the line Of goods they are
now making, in some instances show also
the articles manufactured by them many
years ago. In one case a plough is eXhib-
tied which was in use on Virginia plan
tation In 1776. a crude. one-handled affair.
that must have sorely taxed the strength
and patience Of the slaves who used 1t
and the teams that furnished the motive
power t.s-:
threshing machine in plate glass and
white enamel, driven by an engine under
it's own steam, forms the central feature
of one exhibit. There are several machines
for cutting and binding corn-compara-
lively recent inventions. OF haymaking
machinery there is no end Outside, COW
ering several acres of ground, IS col
lection Of windmilIs. designed for farm
use. such as probably never was assem-
bled in one place before.
Looking at the entire agricultural dis
nlav the visitor is sometimes led TO say
that it is like a good country fair. only
many times larger. Yet he must feel that
this Is really far short of the truth. The
dIenlays are so enriched and beautitied by
tbe manner in which they are arranged
and decorated that they represent rather
the ideal than the actual in agrlcuiture-a
veritable apotheosis Of soil filing
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