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Various minor displays were made in this nursery section, 

 only one of which need be mentioned here — the fence-row 

 exhibit of the Prairie Farmer. This comprised a rail or "worm" 

 fence a couple rods or less long, in the corners of which all the 

 common weeds — which had been planted in — were allowed to 

 grow. Beside it was a model fence area, with a wire fence 

 and a sodded border ; and a third strip alongside the unkempt 

 fence-row, showed plants of the common farm weeds plainly 

 labeled. 



