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PROGRAM
For The Fourth Annual
National Corn Exposition
To Be Held In Columbus
January 80 To February II
A Grand Roundup Of All The
Agricultural Shows
More Than So States To
Have Competitive Exhibits
Speaker OF Nationwide Repu.
tdtiOn Will Be Present

Columbus, o., Jan. THE program
Exposition, to be held January 30th
to February 18th, in the eight inn
mense buildings on the Ohio State Ex-
position grounds has just been COM
pleted, and provides for one of the
greatest National Agricultural Exposi-
tions ever held in the world.
The buildings are connected by en-
closed walks, comfortably heated and
brilliantly illuminated, in all resemb-
ling a great summer garden with
palms and plants and tender growing
crops, giving the visitors whiff of
nature which will more remind them
of balmy June day than of the win
ter season.
This great National Corn Exposi-
tion will be a grand roundup of all
state agricultural shows and agricul-
tural meetings. The name Corn Ex-
position" does not mean that only
corn will be shown, for all grains and
grasses, the prize winners only, at
the various state shows, will be in
competition for the valuable National
trophies.
More than 35 states will have COM
petitive exhibits. Twenty-Five state
agriculture colleges and experiment
stations will have scientific exhibits,
each demonstrating its most ad-
vanced experimental work. These ex-
hibits, which will be in charge of ex-
pert demonstrators will deal, in a
practical way, with nearly every
phase of the science of agriculture.
For instance: North Carolina will en-
phasize the cotton industry--fr the
growing plant to the manufactured ar
ticle--with cotton gin and loom in ac-
tual operation, while Illinois will es-
pecially emphasize its soil work. New
er before in the history Of the world
has there been such a showing of re-
suits in agriculture, based on scien-
tific investigation.
The federal department of agricul-
ture will be represented with it's fam
GUS exhibit which fills two large furni-
ture cars, and which has just been re-
turned from the international exposi-
tion at Buenos Ayers.
Important among the many meet
ings, exhibits and other special fea-
lures of this greatest of agricultural
expositions may be mentioned the
meetings of the American Breeders
association; the Ohio Dairymen's as
sociation; the National Rural Life
Conference, the Ohio Conservation as
sociation, the Ohio Corn Improvement
association and numerous live stock
associations. There will be special
features of vital interest to the Y. M.
G. A., churches, colleges, schools, the
farmer, and the city man and their
families alike.
Special entertainment features will
include a two-ring winter circus,
band concerts with vocal soloists, and
moving pictures.
Speakers of nationwide reputation
will deliver addresses daily on the Ma
tional Corn Exposition program.
The following is the program:
Monday, Jan. 30-Exposition open
ing day. Official opening exercises in
evening at 5 o'clock in Exposition au-
ditorium. Addresses by Governor
Harmon of Ohio; Mayor Marshall Of
Columbus; President Pretzman and
Secretary Bassell of the Columbus
Chamber of Commerce; President E.,
d. Funk and Secretary and General
Manager Geo. H. Stevenson Of the Ma
tional Corn Exposition.
Tuesday, Jan. 31-National Live
Stock Day--Attractive program in the
interest of Live Stock Industry. Speak
ers of National and International repu-
tation.
Wednesday, Feb. l - American
Breeders Association Day-Program
in charge of American Breeders As
sociation.
Thursday, Feb. National Dairy
Day Speakers, Governor Warner of
Michigan; Governor Harmon of Ohio:
G. w. Sisson, Pottsdam, N. Y; Will
bur March, Waterloo, Iowa; Prof. H.
q. Eckles, Columbia, Mo-; DIR. w. o.
Thompson, president Ohio State Uni
versity. Columbus. o. National Dairy