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exhibit ; but each exhibit, whether special or collective, was of the 

 highest order of artistic excellence. The following special exhibits in 

 the main aisle were masterpieces of the art, the result of thirty years 

 experience in exposition making: 



Virginia — A pedestal of many colored corn. 



Indiana — A corn obelisk. 



Missouri — The celebrated corn palace, by far the most beautiful 

 of special exhibits, which will be described under "In Missouri." 



Nebraska — Ruby red corn house. 



Maryland — Corn peristyle. 



Mississippi — King cotton, an heroic cotton figure, fifty feet high. 



California — Golden Temple of Bacchus, flanked by four golden 

 wine casks. 



Georgia — A log cabin. 



Colorado — Sugar beet pavilion. 



Louisiana — ^Sugar cane with sugar mill. 



Tennessee — Tobacco house. 



Maryland — Indian tobacco statue. 



Connecticut — Leaf-tobacco display. 



North Carolina — Tobacco seed house. 



Kentucky — Tobacco leaf display house. 



The headquarters of the various states on the spaces alloted to 

 them were equally beautiful. As a rule, staff work prevailed, orna- 

 mented with grasses, seeds and corn. 



Prices on Collective Exhibits.— The following were the grand 

 prize awards on collective exhibits : 



Missouri — Grasses and corn. 



.Iowa — Spring wheat, timothy, red clover and buckwheat. 



Texas — Sugar. 



Kentucky — Whiskey and tobacco. 



Wisconsin — Rye. barley, dairy school exhibit and garden seed. 



Georgia — Grain, field peas, tobacco. 



Minnesota — Wheat breeding experimttits in Blue Stem wheat. 



Kansas — Wheat, barley, red clover, grains and Kaffir corn. 



Utah — Irrigation exhibit, seeds and cereals. 



Indian Territory — Corn. 



Nebraska — Corn, sheaf and threshed grains, wild and lame 

 grasses and twenty-six products of corn. 



Pennsylvania — Tobacco, grasses. Delaine wool. 



New York — Grains, seeds, canned goods, manufactured tobacco, 

 wines, butter and preserves, 



