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Two Other artistic features of the exhibit were the two corn 

 towers, one of white and one of yellow ears, each 38 feet high with 

 the Louisiana Purchase Monument 45 feet high between them, and 

 two flags, the stars and stripes, and the Louisiana Purchase Emblem, 

 made of undyed, many-colored shucks and blades of corn. 



The Central Corn Palace, to which reference has already been 

 made, would have been in itself a creditable State display. Sitxy-five 

 feet higii and 40 feet in base diameter, it was, next to the Matchless 

 Festival Hall, the most graceful dome on the exposition grounds. It 

 was not'only an admirable lounging room for tired Missourians, and a 

 convenient meeting place for everybody in the great building, but it 

 was worthy of note as containing the very finest specimens of all 

 varieties of Missouri corn and a sample of nearly every agricultural 

 product which the State produces. 



The Missouri Commission and the Exhibit. — The average visitor 

 in the Agricultural building, farmer though he may have been, had 

 only a general idea of the plan pursued in organizing the working 

 force, gathering the materials for the State's display and erecting the 

 artistic part of it in the building. Every expenditure for every pur- 

 pose made by the State at the exposition was under the direction of 

 the Missouri Commission appointed by Governor A. M. Dockery, con- 

 sisting of the following members : M. T. Davis, President ; F. J. 

 Moss, Vice-President ; B. H. Bonfoey, Secretary ; J. H. Hawthorne, 

 treasurer; L. F. Parker, J. O. Allison, D. P. Stroup, N. H. Gentry and 

 W. H. Marshall. J. O. Allison was Commissioner of Agriculture for 

 Missouri, 



The Missouri Agricultural exhibit was under the direct super- 

 vision of Dr. H. J. Waters, who is Dean of Missouri Agricultural Col- 

 lege and one of the most active members of the State Board of Agri- 

 culture. The inception of the general plan of the exhibit is due to Dr. 

 Waters' knowledge of scientific and practical agriculture, together 

 with his earnest desire to place the agriculture of the State in the 

 position that its importance demands. Hon. ■Mat. W. Hall and Col. 

 G. W. Waters, both experienced and successful farmers, were the 

 able assistants in this department and too much credit cannot be given 

 each for the able assistance rendered. To the Allen Decorating Com- 

 pany of St. Louis, chief decorators for the Missouri Commission, is 

 due the fine artistic efifect of this superb exhibit. 



After months of arduous labor in collectintg and installing the 

 exhibit, Dr. Waters resigned his position and went to Europe for a 

 year's study. The Commission exercised the best judgment in select- 

 ing Hon, Mat. W. Hall of Saline county to succeed Dr. Waters. Mr. 



