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structure alone for the Missouri fruit display, which includes an 

 overhead electric railway and other special features; Most of the in- 

 stallations which were all or partly done were in the farther corner 

 of the hall, including Iowa, California, Texas, Kansas, etc. 



As stated to be my purpose in the Secretary's Corner of the 

 May number, I went to St. Louis again on April 24th and was 

 there on the afternoon of the 25th to assist in getting the exhibit in 

 shape for the opening. I found the structure designed for use in 

 making the display painted in white by Mr. Redpath, as planned, 

 and all ready for our purpose, e:^cept a little striping of gold, which 

 was done a day or two later. 



Twenty-two bushel boxes of apples went from Minneapolis cold 

 storage by express on Tuesday, April 26th, reaching St. Louis on 

 Wednesday afternoon, and should have been delivered at our space 

 on Thursday morning, but the rush of work thrown upon the ex- 

 press companies made it impossible for therp to get the fruit there 

 on time ; and as matters seemed to be in no better shape Friday 

 morning Mr. Redpath went down and employed a private express- 

 man to bring up the fruit, 



I had also procured from a near by greenhouse a quantity of 

 trailing vines and ferns to be used in decorating the turntables and 

 other places about the exhibit. The boxes of fruit were opened on 

 Friday and with the exception of two boxes, which were held as 

 a reserve, were placed upon the shelves. About one-half of this 

 fruit went into the refrigerator cases in a temperature of about 50 

 degrees, and the rest on the ^:urntables or the open shelves. 



Mr. Redpath, before my coming, had already opened up the 

 boxes of canned fruits and found them in good condition, none hav- 

 ing been broken in transit. 



Most of the cold storage fruit was found in fine shape, especially 

 the Wealthy, of which there were a number of boxes from the Jewell 

 Nursery Co. and one from Preston McCulley, Maple Plain. None 

 of the balance of fruit had kept as well as the Wealthy, with the 

 exception of a box of Jewell's Winter, from the Jewell Nursery Co., 

 which was also in very fine condition. There were two boxes of 

 University from Mr. A. D. Leach, which were exceptionally nice, 

 barring a few bruises which showed a good deal more on this fruit, 

 being a golden yellow color at that stage, than on the darker apples 

 like the Wealthy. Two boxes of Patten's Greening, from Mr. R. H. 

 L. Jewett, were found to be very nice specimens, but not keeping 

 very well, being more or less spotted and discolored. This injury 

 may have been caused by delay in getting them into cold storage until 

 some time after being gathered, although I have not the facts at 



