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Hall has made an admirable officer, able, courteous and an indefati- 

 gable worker where the State's interests were concerned. He and his 

 chief clerk, Mr. Dudley, have worked ten hours a day at clerical tasks 

 for months. The Missouri Commission, individually, deserves like 

 praise. On December ist, President M. T. Davis had not been in a 

 half dozen of the fair's main buildings, so exacting had been the duties 

 of his office. 



The Display — Its Collection. — The materials for Missouri's display 

 came from various sources. There were, for instance, 345 private ex- 

 hibits. These exhibits comprehended everything produced in the 

 .State. The greater part of the exhibit, especially corn, was collected 

 at county corn shows held for the purpose in co-operation with the 

 Farmers' institutes conducted by the State Board of Agriculture. At 

 these corn shows a premium of $50 was offered for the best corn, the 

 corn to belong to the Missouri Commission. 



Missouri's Great Variety: — In the variety of the products of the 

 soil Missouri easily surpassed any state or nation in the world. The 

 State not only produces variety, but produces abundantly and of the 

 highest quality. In the year 1902 Alissouri produced more bushels 

 of corn per acre than any State in the Union ; for three years, 1902-3-4, 

 Missouri produced, according to Uncle Sam's reports, an average yield 

 per acre of 5 bushels more than Kansas, 22 bushels more than Ne- 

 braska and 1.7 more than Iowa. In both quality of fiber and amount 

 of yield per acre Missouri's cotton fields of the southern counties 

 excel that of any other State. 



The great variety of products adapted to the State is clearly 

 shown by the following list of exhibits, all of which are profitably 

 raised: Corn, oats, wheat, alfalfa, rye, millet, flax, blucgrass, Kaffir 

 corn, popcorn, sugar corn, buckwheat, potatoes, white clover, red 

 clover, alsike clover, crimson clover, sweet clover, meadow fescue, 

 hemp, cowpeas, Canada field peas, soy beans, blue stem, broom corn, 

 sorghum seed and syrup, sunflower seed, Qii;g plant, castor bean, cab- 

 bage, asparagus, pumpkins, beets, onions, rhubarb, wines, apples, and 

 other fruits, including 430 different kinds, melons, cantaloupes, tim- 

 othy, clover seed, sweet potatoes. t<>l)acco, navy beans, turnips, cider, 

 squash, cucumbers, peppers, emmir, radishes, ginseng, brandy, honey 

 and many others of less importance. 



The Prices and Aivards. — There is a mistaken idea prevalent 

 throughout the State concerning tlie exposition awards, what they "are, 

 what they represent, and the methods by which they were given. We 

 wish, that it were otherwise, for we dislike very much to say it — the 



