The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-11-28
Il Is Not to Be a Celebration
Of the Days That Have
Past, But Rather the Days
That Are to Come.
SCIENCE OF THE FARM
WILL BE ILLUSTRATED
Kjnu Corn Will Be the Predom-
mating Exhibit, But Every
Other Kind of Cereal Will
Receive Attention.
ARTICLE I.
Hearst News Service.)

Hearst News Service)
Omaha, Nov. 27.-ln Chicago in '93,
the world celebrated the anniversary
of the discovery of America; in St
Louis, the Louisiant purchase was the
reason why; in Portland it was the
trail to empire blazed by Lewis and
settlement on these wide-flung shores
of ours. Every exposition that has
been held since Philadelphia's centen-
nial, has been in celebration of some
thing big that has gone before.
But in Omaha next month-from De-
cember 6 to December 1S-an exposi-
tion will open which will celebrate the
future. 1t is not to be for the day
that was, but for the day that is to be.
1t will mark the formal opening of
new era in agriculture in which the
man who tills the soil will hold the
same place in the commercial world as
the manufacturer, who has developed
the mechanical arts.
is Result Of Years.
The exposition at Omaha will show
what science has accomplished In pro-
ducing farm crops. 1t will also show
the possibilities in graphic way, and
disseminate among 100000 farmers the
knowledge that the government and
twenty-five states have gained by
years Of hard experimental work to
improve farm crops and increase the
yields.
Known as the National Corn Expo
sition,' the two weeks show at Omaha
is broader than the name "corn" usu-
ally implies. It is used by the expo
sition in a continental sense, meaning
all grains and grasses.
The National Corn Exposition shows
the best of every cereal; the best of ev-
cry forage crop grown in America; the
exhibits being brought together to COM
pete for prizes amounting to $4,000.
and a score of gold and silver tro-
phies worth from $500 to 81 500 each.
These are offered for such exhibits as
the best ten ears Of corn in the world:
the best single ear: another for the
best peck of oats. while another goes
for the best sample OF barley.
These individual exhibits made by
farmers from almost every state in the
union, by school children who are stud
wing agricultural science in the coun-
try schools, and by owners of vast
tracks of wheat and hay lands. will
form but an incidental part of the Ma
tional Corn Exposition.
--f Possibilities Shown.
The real exposition shows the results
Of the spending Of millions Of dollars
by the government and the states in
building up the practice and science
of agriculture. They show the inf
mite possibilities of increasing the yield
per acre and the profit per worker,
when the energy o. heredity in plant
life comes like electricity into mans
hand and is intelligently directed.
The government is installing an ex-
hibit which will show that it's Depart
ment of Agriculture. working with the
states. has been able to secure varie
ties and suggest methods OF handling
the lands of the United States. which
increase the production a billion dol
lars annually.
This exhibit has been prepared by
the bureaus and offices of the depart
ment. The experiment stations have
sent grains and grasses 70 Alaska: trop-
ical products and food plants from Ha-
waii: corn grown on swamp lands of
the South. which three years ago were
covered with four feet of water and
produced only swamp grass fifteen to
twenty feet in height: wheat and barley
from the famous dry farmed" regions
as we'll as from lands which must have
water applied artificially to produce
crops at profit
From the bureau Of animal industry
display will be installed covering tbs
whole wide range of handling CONNER
cial animals: model and full size mills
houses: sanitary dairy barns: models OF
cattle and sheep dipping plants: sixty
samples of diseased animal tissue and
wax models showing the effects thai
Texas fever and other diseases have or
farm animals.
Entomology Bureau.
The bureau of entomology shows
many cases Of injurious and beneficial
insects. with specimens ILLUSTRATING
their habits: chiefly insects injurious
TO grains. fruit trees and forest tim
bers.
Twenty-Five states which are th'
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