Omaha daily bee., 1908-03-01
BAND WAGON FOR CORN SHOW
One State After Another Falls in Line
for Exhibit.
LOS ANGELES RESERVES SPACE
q. w. wattIes wires to Save Room
for. Metropolis Of Southern Cali.
fOFnia-GOvernOr HanIy of
Indiana CO-Operates.

One state after another is lining up to
make the National Corn exposition which
IL to sBe held in Omaha in December, one
Of the greatest shows in history.
More than fifteen states are now pledged
10 its support. while commercial clubs and
chambers Of commerce in all parts OF the
country are taking an interest in the big
enterprise
President q. w. wattles Of the Corn ex-
position, who is visiting in California, tele-
graphed Saturday as follows
J. wilkes Jones, Manager National Germ
Exposition, Omaha, Neb.: Los Angeles
Chamber OF Commerce will make large ex-
hibit at Corn exposition. Please reserve
ample space. q. w. WATIbSS'
In a. letter President wattles explained
several days ago that he had met those
busy men In Los Angeles who had charge
OF the, great California exhibit at the
Transmississippi and International exposi-
tion held in omaha in 1855. They told the
president OF the good their state derived
from such exhibits. and Mr.. Wattles In
vited the Chamber Of Commerce to make
an exhibit at the coming corn exposition.
which will be second only to the Trans
mississippi exposition in the attention 1t
will attract from the country.
Indiana II in Line.
Governor Frank J. Hanly OF Indiana has
written 20 the managers of the show. com
mandins II and Offering any assistance
whichpls needed from Indiana. The gov
s1noris letter follows
As the governor of a great agricultural
people. am greatly Interested IN the Ma
tlonal Corn exposition, to be held IN your
city this year. The educational advantages
OF the exposition cannot well be overesti-
mated Improvement in seed, in methods or
selection, and IN culture, has marked every
hell nd made.
as yet we have only begun to appreciate
the increase In yield and quality that fol-
lows from the better knowledge Of soils,
seed and culture we have attained. You
have my unqualified wish for successful
exposition. II l can do anything to assist
The executive committee OF the National
Corn association has been called to meet
In Omaha next Saturday. March Z. Presi-
dent r.. d. Funk from Bloomington, H.,
viii be present. 1t is planned to have a
dinner at the Commercial club to give the
business men Of Omaha an opportunity to
meet the memb4rs Of the executive COM
mittee, whos come from several states. The
dates cot the National Corn exposition will
i. pfobab1y be selected during the committee
meeting.
Funk Has n Record.
Among the interesting men who will
be Identified with the corn exposition, T..
d. Funk is one or those who will oe able
10 win ribbons enough to decorate the
next show. It was Funk of Bloomington.
y. s. A., who carried off the $4,000 reward
offered by the Australian government for
a trap which would exterminate the rab-
bits. which some twenty years ago we're
eating the crops Of the country almost
before the tender sprouts were through
the ground.
Mr.. Funk had a rabbit trap which per-
formed its duty so we'll that 1t was the
means OF exterminating the rabbits. He
received the $4,000 and tho great T<lnlS
farm a. Bloomington is the result. Asso-
ciatcd awith Prot p. q. Holden of the
iowa AGRICULTURAL college. the Funks have
developed one Of the farms which are con-
busted with scientific exactness and yield
profits 50 out Of proportion to the ordi-
nary Earnings Of land that the western
.armoT has q hard time believing the re-
ourts cfthoae who visit the Funk farm