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used are made in bold relief. Commencing at the left on the end space 

 is the figure of a woman churning with the old-fashioned churn. In 

 the next corner is a woman skimming a pan of milk on which the cream 

 has raised by the old gravity process. This represents the "old method." 

 Between the two, on the floor of a scantily furnished log house, is a boy 

 feeding a dog. To the right of this, at right angles, is the mother play- 

 ing with her children, while a boy is separating the milk with a centrif- 

 ugal separator. This represents "the new method." Around the corner 

 from this is a reproduction of the seal of the State of Missouri. All of 

 this is done in butter. This exhibit is in a refrigerator with a glass 

 front of three thicknesses of plate glass and an air space between each 

 two. At one end of the case is an ice-making machine in constant opera- 

 tion, and the temperature inside of the case is kept below freezing. The 

 space occupied by Missouri's butter exhibit is eight feet by twenty-eight 

 feet, making 224 square feet of floor space, and about 325 square feet 

 of wall space. The work done on it was equal to three months work for 

 one man, and its magnitude is commensurate with the possibilities of the 

 great State represented by it. 



Missouri's big cheese. 



In its design and construction, Missouri's cheese exhibit is a wonder- 

 ful thing, because of its being the first and only one of the kind. In its 

 size it is typical of the extensive scale on which Missouri carries on all 



MlSSOIIUrS BIG CHEESE. 



Three thousand five hiindrod pounds of milk nsod In making, furnished by 150 

 dairymen. 



