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Tlie dairymen of the State are all in line preparing specimens of 

 butter and cheese for exhibition under the instruction of experts, and 

 we are thus assured that this exhibit will be one that all who are inter- 

 ested in the work will be proud of. The special feature of this exhibit 

 will be some modeling in butter. This will be an object lesson showing 

 side by side the products obtained from a scrub and thoroughbred dairy 

 cow. It will consist of two butter calves, fashioned by one of the besi 

 artists that can be found in the country, one being made up of the 

 butter product from a scrub cow for one year, the other the butter made 

 from an extra tine dairy animal for the same period. We expect this to 

 be one of the great attractive features of the dairy exhibit at the World's 

 Fair. 



Every county in the State has been solicited to take part in the gen- 

 eral agricultural display, by the appointment of an active agent in each 

 county to solicit and get together exhibits. Most of these agents are 

 doing faithful, energetic work, and in several counties special appro- 

 priations have been asked for and granted by the county commissioners. 

 In some instances a considerable fund has been raised by private dona- 

 tion, and in others necessary material has been secured by working ujt 

 corn shows. Just how large this general agricultural exhibit will be wu 

 are not able to state, but one thing we are assured of, that it will ))»• 

 the most extensive that has ever gone out of the State. 



A special corn show will be the main feature of Indiana's grain 

 exhibit. About $7,500 have been set aside to complete this show. The 

 very best experts in the line of installing such an exhibit, to be found 

 in the State, are now at work preparing attractive features for this 

 display. - The services of the best corn artists to be found in the whole 

 country have also been secured to execute farm scenes and statues from 

 different colored corn, the like of which has never been seen at any 

 previous AVorld's Fair. 



Our live stock interests are being looked after by men who are very 

 much interested in keeping up the reputation of the State as well as 

 looking after individual interests. Superintendents of the various breeds 

 of stock have been selected to get out the very best animals, flocks and 

 herds to be found in the State, and see to it that all exhibition stock are 

 put in the finest possible show condition. Indiana is naturally the great 

 live stock center of the whole country, and is producing as much fine 

 breeding stock as any other State. The breeders seem to be fully awake 

 to the importance of making a grand display at St. Louis, and if they 

 do not give us a show that we will all be proud of and come in for 

 the lion's share of the laurels as well as the prizes to be awarded, we 

 fail to read the signs of the times aright. The commission proposes to 

 assist stock breeders by paying freights upon all meritorious animals 

 placed on exhibition. An industi-y that is worth over $50,000,000 annually 

 to the State deserves the most liberal encouragement that can possibly 

 be extended to it. 



