The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
NO DR0UTH HERE!
Agriculture Hall at Free Fair
Vision of Prosperity.
Fruits Stand Out Against Back
ground of Flowers.
PUMPKINS BESIDE POPCORN
Women in Contest for Canning
and NeedlewOrk HOnOrs.
Wealth of Kansas Farms Fill
Three Wings of Building.

Anyone who will take the trouble
to look the agricultural and hort1cul-
tura1 exhibits at the Kansas Free
Fair in the face will lack the nerve
to say there was a drouth in Kansas
this year. 1t can't be done.
Stand in the center of agricultural
hall and look in any of three ways
and you see nothing but the finest
products of orchard and field.
On the south side of the east wing
four counties, Jewell, Leavenworth,
Franklin and Jefferson, contest for
first place on county displays. Grain
and vegetables testifying to the soil,
the farmers and the artistic sense of
the men who gathered and arranged
the display, cover the walls
Along the north wall are the fruits
of kansas-apples, peaches, pears,
plums, ounces, crabapples, grapes,
berries and dozens of others, enticing
1y arranged upon plates and in boxes
and baskets. Back of the fruits the
fall flowers of Kansas are banked
flowers of every size, every shape, col
or and hue.
The west wing is a granary for
farm and garden. On the south side
of it are banks of corn, pumpkins,
squasheS, melons, potatoes, sweet po-
tatoes, cucumbers, egg plant, rhubarb,
carrots, parsnipS and vegetables ia
miliar only by name. In the display
of corn there is sweet corn. pop corn
and field corn of the white, red and
yellow varieties. The north side of the
west wing is a replica of the south
side.
Canning CLUB Exhibits.
The displays of the mother and
daughter canning clubs are in the
north wing. Tier upon tier of glass
cans containing appetizing looking
fruits and vegetables are displayed
One display is by the Bonner Springs
club, one by the Maple Hill club and
one by Ihe 'Leavendotte" Clue, COM
bination formed in Leavenworth and
Wyandotte counties. Along with the
displays of canned fruit and vegetables
are hundreds of pieces of needlework
wrought by mothers and daughters
There are displays of milk and
honey, also butter The honey exhibit
extends for forty, feet in the north
wing. There is honey in the comb as
the bees made 1t and in the can as
extracted from the comb. There are
bees at work inside of glass cases
Statue of Butter
Across from the honey exhibit the
Beatrice Creamery company has its
usual exhibit with an unusual feature
in the way of piece of statuary COM
posed of butter. Usually it mas such
an exhibit but this year it is different
Two small boys in soldiers uniform,
one astride a broomstick, the other
with a tablet and pencil in hand stand
behind the glass. Somewhere in Kan
d
while his orderly waits"
<There are displays of cream sepa-
rators, milking machines and half a
dozen other contrivances to make
dairy work easier Local concerns
have taken some of the central spaces
for their displays. One of the displays
is that of Wisemans planning mill
where are displayed all kinds of wood
work. stained and unstained
Agricultural hall with its attractive
exterior and the dazzling white inter
ior is pleasant place. It has that
warm earthly smell that comes from
vegetables and the faint perfume that
comes from flowers and fresh fruits
1t is we'll filled with exhibits and the
exhibits are up to par. There isn't
sign of drouth in the whole build
ing.
Monster ears of corn crowd mann
moth potatoes and sweet potatoes. Big
red checked apples crowd fuzzy cheek
ed peaches.
1t is a big exhibit, we'll arranged
and indicative sof the productivity OF
Kansas farms, gardens and orchards
in 1877